Bordighera Championship

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Bordighera Championship
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1913
Abolished1952
Location Bordighera, Liguria, Italy
VenueBordighera LTC
SurfaceClay

The Bordighera Championship [1] was a combined clay court tennis tournament held at the Bordighera Lawn Tennis Club(f.1878), [2] Bordighera, Liguria, Italy from 1913 to 1952.

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History

The Bordighera Lawn Tennis Club was formally established in 1878 with the help of the Bishop of London John Jackson who chaired a committee of British expatriates, [3] who were resident in Bordighera at that time to provide funds for the construction of the tennis behind the English Church. [3] (this was the first tennis club in Italy). [4] In 1913 the Bordighera Championship was established. [5]

In 1939 at the outset of World War II the British community living in Bordighera left, and international players abandoned the tournament. [3] Following the war the tournament continued as a local event for Italian players, and the championship was last staged in 1952, the men's singles was won by Orlando Sirola. [6]

Notable winners of this tournament included in the men's singles; Anthony Wilding (1914), Jack Hillyard (1922–1924), Erik Worm (1927–1928), Giorgio de Stefani (1928), George Lyttleton Rogers (1931), [7] Giovanni Palmieri (1932, 1934, 1936–1937), Jean Le Sueur (1935, 1938) and Henner Henkel (1939). [6]

Former notable winners of women's singles title included; Phyllis Carr Satterthwaite (1922–1923, 1926, 1929), Elizabeth Ryan (1927–1928), Dorothy Holman (1925), Joan Ridley (1928–30), Ilse Friedleben (1931) and Simonne Mathieu (1935) and Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher (1939). [6]

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References

  1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. London: Longmans, Green and Company. 1913. p. 221.
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