Derbyshire Championships | |
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Defunct tennis tournament | |
Tour | Pre open era |
Founded | 1883 |
Abolished | 1953 |
Editions | 60 |
Location | Buxton, Derbyshire, Great Britain |
Venue | Buxton Lawn Tennis Club |
Surface | Grass |
The Derbyshire Championships originally known as the Championship of Derbyshire was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament held at the Buxton Lawn Tennis Club, Buxton, Derbyshire, Great Britain from 1883 to 1953
A tennis tournament was originally held at Buxton Garden's [1] as early as 1880. [2] By 1883 the club had attracted more players and a men's championships was staged for the first time which was won by Minden Fenwick, [2] he went on to win the New Zealand Championships three times from (1892–1894). [3] In 1884 the owners of the Buxton Gardens, the Buxton Improvements Company, decided to stage a fully open event featuring men's and women's singles, with ladies' and gentlemen's singles played under the title 'Championship of Derbyshire', and a ladies' doubles played with the imposing title of 'The All-England Ladies Doubles'. [2] The inaugural ladies' singles champion was Agnes Noon Watts. [2] This latter championship was the first of its kind, being inaugurated before Wimbledon. [2] In July 1914 the Derby and District Lawn Tennis Association was officially incorporated, [4] this organisation later became known as the Derbyshire Lawn Tennis Association who were responsible for the staging of this event. [5] The championships were not staged during World War I or World War II. [2] It remained a featured tournament in the annual tennis tours. The tournament is still held today as a closed tennis event.
Notable winners of the men's singles included Grainger Chaytor (1892–1894, 1899), Wilberforce Eaves (1904), Laurie Doherty (1909), Adrian Quist (1936) and Franjo Kukuljević (1949). Previous women's singles champions included Louisa Martin (1886), Blanche Bingley Hillyard (1906), Elizabeth Ryan (1921) and Gem Hoahing (1948). The Derbyshire Championships ran until 1953 when it was abolished. [2] The final men's singles champion was Nigel Cockburn from South Africa and the final women's singles title went to Britain's Mary Harris.
Most titles | Grainger Chaytor | 4 |
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Gordon Crole-Rees | ||
Most consecutive titles | Grainger Chaytor (1890–1894) | 4 |
Most titles | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | 7 |
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Most consecutive finals | Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1911–1913) | 3 |
Elizabeth Ryan (1919–1921) | ||
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