Tennis is set to return to Milton with the suburb’s proposed $12.6 million park to include six courts on the site where the Milton Tennis Centre once stood.

According to Brisbane City Council’s plans for the site, the six new tennis courts will be placed on the Milton Road edge of the park to reflect the site’s history.

The vacant Milton Tennis Centre site today and (inset) in its heyday more than 40 years ago as a top tennis arena where some epic Davis Cup ties were played out.

But despite the park commonly being known as the Milton Tennis Centre Park, or the old Milton Bowl site, Brisbane City Council has decided against renaming the park and will stick with its original name, Frew Park.

The park is named after Bob Frew, who lived in Milton and was president of the Queensland Lawn Tennis Association from 1910 to 1930.