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  Kandy Garden Club Location within Sri Lanka | |
| Address | 9 Sangaraja Mawatha |
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| Location | Kandy,Sri Lanka |
| Coordinates | 7°17′14″N80°38′49″E / 7.28722°N 80.64694°E /7.28722; 80.64694 |
| Events | Sporting and Social Club |
| Field shape | Rectangular |
| Surface | Hardcourt |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1878 |
| Opened | 1878; 147 years ago (1878)[1] |
| Website | |
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TheKandy Garden Club is a social and sports club inKandy,Sri Lanka, which was established in 1878 for the exclusive use byBritish coffee planters to playtennis. It is one of the oldest operating sports clubs in the country[2] and the second oldest in Kandy.[3]
The club was opened in 1878 for the exclusive use by the British, particularly planters wanting to play tennis.[3][4][5] The nature of the club changed when an elite class of Sri Lankans (then Ceylonese) were permitted to join the club. In 1950 the club was opened to the Sri Lankans. The first Sri Lankan elected as president of the club was Col. S. D. Ratwatte with S. Wijenayake as the secretary.[4][when?]
The club is located at the south-eastern end ofKandy Lake, adjacent to theE. L. Senanayake Children's Park.[6][7] It has four floodlithardcourts.[8] Other facilities includeBilliards,Snooker,Table Tennis andBridge. One of the club's billiard tables dates back to 1913, the table was manufactured byJohn W. Roberts and Company, and has been preserved in its original condition.[9]
Billiards championsPaul Mifsudy,Norman Dangley, were among others invited to play exhibition matches at the Club table. In 1989 the second match of the first snooker test series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan was played at the club.[10]
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