The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

The club was opened on July 1, 1880, after a six-month construction period and quickly became a fashionable venue for Newport summer residents.

It was at risk of being demolished for redevelopment of modern retail space, but the building was purchased and saved by Jimmy and Candy Van Alen, wealthy Newport summer residents.

A sportsman himself, in 1954, Jimmy Van Alen established the National Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum in the Casino.

Van Alen intended the facility to be "a shrine to the ideals of the game", and was elected president of the hall in 1957.

In 1975, with the induction of England's Fred Perry, the organization officially became the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

[4] In 2015, Martina Hingis was appointed as the first Global Ambassador for the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

The museum's permanent collection contains approximately 30,000 objects, including modern and historic tennis equipment, fine art, decorative arts, artifacts from Hall of Famers and other significant figures within the sport, trophies, textiles and clothing, ephemera, and furnishings.

The redesigned and reinterpreted galleries encompass more than 12,000 square feet of interactive exhibits, videos, and approximately 2,000 artifacts related to tennis' history and champions past and present.

Top male players come to Newport directly from Wimbledon to compete for the Van Alen Cup at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.