MELBOURNE — Australia will host the United States in their Davis Cup opener next year at Melbourne's iconic Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, the former venue of the Australian Open.
The grass courts of Kooyong in the city's leafy eastern suburbs hosted the grand slam tournament until it was moved to the current site at Melbourne Park in 1988.
Kooyong has since hosted a warm-up tournament for the Australian Open on the same hard-court surface used at Melbourne Park, but its showcourt will revert to grass for the Davis Cup tie from March 4-6.
"To play Davis Cup in Melbourne, the home of tennis in Australia, at a club like Kooyong with so much tennis history is a privilege," Australia's Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt said in a media release on Thursday.