The Keswick Open Hard Courts [1] was a men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1934 as the Lakeland Open.
In August 1889 the Keswick Open was first held for the first time.
It was held annually until 1910 when it was discontinued as part of the LTA Circuit.
[2] In 1934 the Keswick Lawn Tennis Club established a new successor event called the Lakeland Open that was also played at Fitz Park, but this time on hard clay courts, that event ran until 1939,[3] when it was briefly supsepended due to World War Two.
In 1960 the event was held in conjunction with the Cumberland County Championships.