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David X. Marks Tennis Stadium
Key Facts
- Opened: 1971
- Capacity: 1,000
- Home of Men's & Women's Tennis
PROHIBITED ITEMS
Address
1075 Childs Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
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Overview
The USC men’s and women’s tennis teams have called the David X. Marks Tennis Stadium home since its construction in Marks Stadium 1971. This season, Trojan tennis sees its home revamped and renovated, bringing the venue up to date and in line with the impressive accomplishments of both programs. USC broke ground on the new Buntmann Family Tennis Center on Feb. 24, 2015, starting an impressive renovation project with the goal of elevating Marks Tennis Stadium to be on par with the best facilities in the country by creating an inviting, elegant, bright and safe training and competition environment.
The Buntmann Family Tennis Center entrance and lobby now welcomes fans and visitors and puts on display the rich history of USC tennis. To improve the building functionality and support the tennis program operations, the new Lisa and Douglas Goldman Family Student-Athlete Learning Studio supports direct collaboration between coaches, staff and athletes on a daily basis.
The teams are now able to utilize and enjoy brand-new suites with lockers, showers, team meeting rooms and lounges. Both teams also have access to a new training room, a stringing storage area and a large multi-purpose room. To better accommodate and enhance the spectator experience, new spectator shade canopies has been added, a new elevator to the seating area has been installed.
In addition to the lead gift from the Buntmann family, the renovation was made possible thanks to financial support from the Lisa and Douglas Goldman family, the Fritz. B Burns Foundation, John Shea and Michael Uytengsu.
The Buntmann Family Tennis Center is just the latest of a string of improvements made at Marks Stadium. During winter of 2006, a sixth court was added to the main stadium, allowing for dual-match competition to be played out entirely in front of fans within the 1,000-seat venue.
A new and much-anticipated addition was made in May 2005 with the installation of a $300,000 LED Daktronic interactive scoreboard, emblazoned with a list of all national championships won by the USC men’s and women’s tennis programs. Fans can now follow each match point-for-point from their stadium seat and online at usctrojans.com.
The stadium also underwent renovations during the summer of 2002. Seven hundred chair-back seats were added to replace the bleachers on the baselines and the courts were all repainted and lined.
Two of the courts are named after famous USC alumni and Wimbledon singles champions, Alex Olmedo and Stan Smith. The center court is named for USC’s 13 Grand Slam doubles champions — Byron Black, Bob Falkenburg, Luke Jensen, Murphy Jensen, Rick Leach, Bob Lutz, Gene Mako, Olmedo, Rafael Osuna, Dennis Ralston, Raul Ramirez, Ted Schroeder and Smith. Plaques honoring Trojan legends Dick Leach and George Toley also adorn the entrance of Marks Stadium.
The stadium was dedicated in 1973 when former Trojan stars Alex Olmedo, Stan Smith, Dennis Ralston and Bob Lutz held a tennis exhibition. The 1974 men’s NCAA Tournament was held at Marks Stadium (USC finished second).
