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The LA Tennis Open is an international event attended by the world's best men's tennis players. Past winners include Wayne Ferreira, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, Michael Stich, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Rod Laver, Arthur Ashe, Ken Rosewall, Jack Kramer, and Fred Perry.

The tournament began in 1927. At that time, the cup included men's and women's singles and men's doubles. In 1975, women's singles was dropped from the competition as it was taken over by the ATP, which is the organization for male professional tennis players. Today, the top 32 men's singles players and 16 men's doubles teams come to the LA Tennis Open to compete.

The competition is played on hard courts at UCLA's Los Angeles Tennis Center. The center opened in 1984, just in time to host the 1984 Olympic Games tennis competition and the NCAA Women's Tennis Competition in that same year. It has eight hard-surface courts with a 5,800-seat grandstand surrounding the three main courts. At its total capacity, over 10,000 tickets are available for events.