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David X. Marks Tennis Stadium

tennis stadium at the University of Southern California

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ60741409 ↗
Source-derived summary

The David X. Marks Tennis Stadium is a tennis facility located on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The facility, built in 1971, serves as the home of the USC Trojans men's and women's tennis teams. The facility provides six outdoor tennis courts and has a seating capacity of 1,000. The stadium is named for David X. Marks, a World War I pilot.

Renovations

In 2015, The Buntmann Family Tennis Center was added and includes a new entrance and lobby. In 2005, a new LED scoreboard was installed. In 2002, 700 chair-back seats were added replacing bleacher seating.

Events

The 1974 men’s NCAA Tennis Tournament was held at the stadium.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “David X. Marks Tennis Stadium” as tennis stadium at the University of Southern California. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around David, Marks and Tennis.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2015, 2005, 2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with David, Marks and Tennis providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “David X. Marks Tennis Stadium”, the useful work is to connect “tennis stadium at the University of Southern California” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60741409. Authority coordinates are 34.021, -118.286. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 2015, 2005 and 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “David X. Marks Tennis Stadium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.