Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club

Last updated September 15, 2024

Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1881, seven years before the Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain was founded.^{[ citation needed ]} Although it is called a 'club', it is actually the lawn tennis association of the whole of the University of Cambridge, representing the university as a whole, the thirty-one colleges, and other institutions which are part of the university.

CULTC is directly affiliated to the Lawn Tennis Association of Great Britain and has a representative on the council and on the board of the association. The president and former chairman of the club, Sir Geoffrey Cass, was president of the Lawn Tennis Association and Chairman of the L.T.A. Council 1997–1999. He is currently president of the British Tennis Foundation.^[1]

The university and colleges give considerable support to British tennis by making available their administrative and playing facilities. CULTC regularly arranges for County Week groups to be held on college grounds.

The university's annual fixture list is one of the strongest in Britain. It usually includes matches against many different countries, as well as several of Britain's leading lawn tennis clubs; also half-a-dozen universities, and a dozen other clubs and teams. Most of the club's annual fixtures are home matches, which means that in a typical year nearly 30 tennis teams from all over Britain are entertained for a day in Cambridge at Fenner's.

Famous past and current members

Until the Second World War, after which lawn tennis became less of an amateur pursuit, Cambridge Blues won no less than 28 Wimbledon Championships in singles and doubles.

Blues

Famous Cambridge Lawn Tennis Blues
Name	College	Degree	Subject	Years played Varsity Match
Reginald Doherty	Trinity Hall
Jimmy Van Alen	Christ's
Max Woosnam	Trinity
Laurence Doherty	Trinity Hall
Anthony Wilding	Trinity		Law
Raymond Tuckey	Queens'
Bunny Austin	Pembroke	B.A.	History	1926–1928
John Barrett	St John's	B.A.	History	1951–1954
Mark Cox	Downing	B.A.	Economics

Honorary

Sir Geoffrey Cass, Clare Hall —
Stephen Bourne, Cambridge University Press — Honorary Vice-president
Professor Sir Roy Calne, Trinity Hall — Honorary Vice-president

Varsity match

Overall statistics

Men's Varsity Match Results Overview
	1881-2013	1946-2013
Cambridge Victories	72	44
Oxford Victories	42	23
Draws	9	-

Women's Varsity Match Results Overview
	1977-2013
Cambridge Victories	26
Oxford Victories	13

Results

Cambridge University versus Oxford University Varsity Match results:

Year	Men's winner	Men's score	Women's winner	Women's score
1905	Cambridge	12-6
1906	Oxford	4-11
1907	Oxford	4-14
1908	-	-
1909	Oxford	0-9
1910	-	-
1911	Cambridge	11-10
1912	Cambridge	14-4
1913	Cambridge	15-3
1914	Cambridge	15-3
1915	-	-
1916	-	-
1917	-	-
1918	-	-
1919	Oxford	7-11
1920	-	-
1921	-	-
1922	-	-
1923	Cambridge	12-9
1924	Oxford	10-11
1925	Cambridge	11-10
1926	Cambridge	14-7
1927	Cambridge	13-8
1928	Cambridge	13-8
1929	Oxford	9-12
1930	Cambridge	18-3
1931	Cambridge	14-2
1932	Cambridge	12-4
1933	Cambridge	12-9
1934	Oxford	8-13
1935	Cambridge	13-8
1936	Oxford	6-11
1937	Cambridge	11-10
1938	Oxford	6-15
1939	Oxford	7-14
1940	Cambridge	11-4
1941	Cambridge	8-7
1942	Cambridge	10-2
1943	-	-
1944	Cambridge	13-2
1945	Cambridge	13-2
1946	Cambridge	11-9
1947	Oxford	1-20
1948	Oxford	8-13
1949	Oxford	1-14
1950	Cambridge	11-9
1951	Cambridge	13-7
1952	Cambridge	15-6
1953	Cambridge	12-9
1954	Cambridge	17-4
1955	Oxford	10-11
1956	Oxford	10-11
1957	Cambridge	14-7
1958	Cambridge	16-5
1959	Oxford	10-11
1960	Oxford	8-13
1961	Oxford	6-15
1962	Cambridge	14-7
1963	Cambridge	19-2
1964	Cambridge	14-7
1965	Cambridge	11-8
1966	-	-
1967	Cambridge	14-7
1968	Cambridge	13-8
1969	Cambridge	17-4
1970	Cambridge	11-10
1971	Cambridge	11-10
1972	Oxford	7.5-13.5
1973	Oxford	8-13
1974	Oxford	4-17
1975	Cambridge	12-2
1976	Cambridge	18-3
1977	Cambridge	15-6
1978	Cambridge	14-7
1979	Cambridge	20-1
1980	Cambridge	21-0
1981	Cambridge	20-1
1982	Cambridge	20-1
1983	Cambridge	18-3
1984	Cambridge	19-2
1985	Cambridge	17-4	Cambridge	10-5
1986	Cambridge	16-5	Cambridge	8-1
1987	Cambridge	14-7	Cambridge	9-6
1988	Oxford	8-13	Oxford	6-9
1989	Oxford	2-19	Oxford	1-14
1990	Oxford	5-16	Cambridge	13-2
1991	Cambridge	15-6	Cambridge	12-3
1992	Oxford	9-12	Cambridge	11-4
1993	Oxford	6-15	Oxford	7-8
1994	Oxford	0-21	Oxford	3-12
1995	Oxford	3-18	Oxford	1-14
1996	Oxford	6-15	Oxford	6-15
1997	Cambridge	13-8	Oxford	4-11
1998	Oxford	3-18	Cambridge	12-3
1999	Cambridge	14-7	Cambridge	12-3
2000	Cambridge	12-9	Cambridge	13-2
2001	Oxford	5-16	Cambridge	8-4
2002	Oxford	7-14	Oxford	7-8
2003	Cambridge	12-9	Cambridge	10-5
2004	Cambridge	19-2	Cambridge	11-4
2005	Oxford	8.5-12.5	Cambridge	17-4
2006	Cambridge	11-10	Cambridge	14-7
2007	Cambridge	12-9	Oxford	8-13
2008	Cambridge	15-6	Oxford	10-11
2009	Cambridge	12-9	Cambridge	12-9
2010	Cambridge	13-8	Cambridge	18-3
2011	Cambridge	12-9	Cambridge	18-3
2012	Cambridge	12-9	Cambridge	16-5
2013	Cambridge	12-9	Oxford	7-14
2014	Cambridge	12-9	Cambridge	14-7
2015	Oxford	8-13	Oxford	8-13
2016	Oxford	7-11	Oxford	10-11
2017	Cambridge	15-6	Oxford	5-16
2018	Cambridge	19-2	Oxford	5-16
2019	Cambridge	17-4	Cambridge	14-7
2020	Cambridge	11-10	Cambridge	18-3

The Doherty Cup

The original Cambridge University Tournament was founded as the Cambridge University LTC Tournament in 1881.^[2] The winners of gentleman's singles event from 1920 was also known as The Doherty Cup.^[3]

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References

↑ British Tennis Foundation.
↑ "35TH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT. Seventy-seven competitors entered for the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club Tournament, which concluded yesterday". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. Leeds, Yorkshire, England: The British Newspaper Archive. 1 May 1920. p. 20.
↑ "Light Blues' Lawn Tennis.The Doherty Cup final in the Cambridge University lawn tennis tournament yesterday D. R. Rutnam beat J. H. van Alen 6-3, 6-2, 0-6, 9-11, 6-4". Daily Mirror. London, England: The British Newspaper Archive. 30 May 1924. p. 14.

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[1] British Tennis Foundation.

[2] "35TH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TOURNAMENT. Seventy-seven competitors entered for the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club Tournament, which concluded yesterday". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. Leeds, Yorkshire, England: The British Newspaper Archive. 1 May 1920. p. 20.

[3] "Light Blues' Lawn Tennis.The Doherty Cup final in the Cambridge University lawn tennis tournament yesterday D. R. Rutnam beat J. H. van Alen 6-3, 6-2, 0-6, 9-11, 6-4". Daily Mirror. London, England: The British Newspaper Archive. 30 May 1924. p. 14.

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