Italian Riviera Championships | |
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Defunct tennis tournament | |
Founded | 1903 |
Abolished | 1964 |
Location | San Remo, Liguria, Northern Italy |
Venue | Tennis Club Sanremo |
Surface | Clay |
The Italian Riviera Championships [1] also known as the San Remo International [2] was a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1903 at San Remo, Liguria, Northern Italy. The tournament was staged at the Tennis Club Sanremo (f.1897) until 1964, and was part of the Italian Riviera circuit of tennis tournaments.
The Italian Riviera Championships (San Remo) [3] were established in 1903. The championships were on regularly occasions the opening event at the start of the Italian clay court season. From 1956 until 1962 it was staged only twice. In 1964 the tournament was discontinued due to funding issues.
Former winners of the men's singles included; Major Ritchie (1903), Anthony Wilding (1908, 1912), Erik Worm (1927, 1930), Jean Lesueur (1931, 1933–1934), Gottfried von Cramm (1940), Dick Savitt (1951) Jaroslav Drobný (1955), and Nicola Pietrangeli (1960, 1963). The women's single was previously won by Dorothy Holman (1925), Elizabeth Ryan (1924, 1928), Lucia Valerio (1929, 1932), Pauline Betz (1947), Doris Hart (1951) Shirley Bloomer (1955), and Almut Sturm (1964).
The Italian Riviera Championships was held at the Tennis and Bridge Club San Remo, (f.1897) today known as Tennis Sanremo. [4]
(incomplete roll) [5]
Year | Winner | Runner-up | Score | |
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1903 | Major Ritchie | Roy Allen | 6–3, 6–1, 6–3 | |
1908 | Anthony Wilding | M. Turton | 6–0, 6–0, 6–1 | |
1909 | Artemas Holmes | George S. Smythe | 6–3, 6–3, 6–1 | |
1910 | Artemas Holmes (2) | Herbert Bird Routledge | 6–0, 6–1, 6–0 | |
1911 | Anthony Wilding (2) | Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe | 6-4, 2-,6 3–6, 6–4, 6–2 | |
1912 | Roy Allen | Mark Hick | 6–2, 6–3, 6–2 | |
1913 | Roy Allen (2) | Arthur Wallis Myers | 6–1, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4 | |
1914 | Gordon Lowe | Craig Biddle | 6-4, 6-3 | |
1915/1918 | Not held (due to World War I) | |||
1924 | George William Grounsell | Pietro Malone | 6–1, 6–2, 6–2 | |
1927 | Erik Worm | Sri-Krishna Prasada | 7–5, 6–3, 0–6, 7–5 | |
1928 | Placido Gaslini | Erik Worm | 6–2, 7–5, 2–6, 4–6, 7–5 | |
1929 | Pat Hughes | Eric Peters | 6–2, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2 | |
1930 | Erik Worm (2) | Pat Hughes | 3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 | |
1931 | Jean Lesueur | Benny Berthet | 8–6, 7–5, 1–6, 3–6, 6–2 | |
1932 | Béla von Kehrling | George Lyttleton Rogers | 6–3, 6–3, 6–3 | |
1933 | Jean Lesueur (2) | Giovanni Palmieri | 6–3, 6–4, 2–6, 6–1 | |
1934 | Jean Lesueur (3) | Wilmer Hines | 6–8, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 | |
1935 | Augusto Rado | Josef Caska | 6–4, 4–6, 6–1, ret. | |
1936 | Giovanni Palmieri | Augusto Rado | 6–2, 6–3, 8–6 | |
1937 | Vojtěch Vodička | Józef Hebda | 6–2, 2–6, 6–3, 6–1 | |
1939 | Franjo Punčec | Giorgio de Stefani | 6–3, 6–3, 6–2 | |
1940 | Gottfried von Cramm | Francesco Romanoni | 3–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–2 | |
1941/1946 | Not held (due to World War II) | |||
1947 | József Asbóth | Marcello del Bello | 6–2, 6–4, 6–3 | |
1948 | Pedro Masip | Henri Cochet | 6–1, 6–4, 9–7 | |
1949 | Gianni Cucelli | Frank Parker | 6–4, 3–6, 7–5, 7–5 | |
1950 | Rolando Del Bello | Torsten Johansson | 8–6, 6–2, 1–6, 7–5 | |
1951 | Dick Savitt | Budge Patty | 6–4, 9–7, 4–6, 6–3 | |
1952 | Jaroslav Drobný | Milan Branović | 6–3, 6–3, 6–2 | |
1953 | Władysław Skonecki | Gianni Cucelli | 6–3, 6–1, 6–3 | |
1954 | Fausto Gardini | Enrique Morea | 6–1, 2–6, 6–3, 6–2 | |
1955 | Jaroslav Drobný (2) | Budge Patty | 5–7, 6–2, 13–11, 6-2 | |
1958 | Mario Llamas | Władysław Skonecki | 6–4, 6–1, 1–6, 6–4 | |
1960 | Nicola Pietrangeli | Giuseppe Merlo | 3–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4 | |
1963 | Nicola Pietrangeli (2) | Jacques Brichant | 6–2, 7–5, 7–5 | |
1964 | Jan-Erik Lundqvist | Nicola Pietrangeli | 11–9, 6–2, 6–4 |
(incomplete roll)
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