St George's Hill Open | |
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Defunct tennis tournament | |
Tour | Men's Amateur Tour (1877-1912) Women Amateur Tour (1877-1912) ILTF Men's Amateur Tour (1913-1967) ILTF Women's Amateur Tour (1913-1967) |
Founded | 1881 |
Abolished | 1966 |
Location | St Georges Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, England. |
Surface | Grass |
The St George's Hill Open [1] tournament was founded as the St George's Hill Tournament a men's grass court tennis tournament staged at St Georges Hill Weybridge, Surrey, England in 1881, that ran until 1883, and was not held again. [2] [3] In 1913 the St Georges Hill Lawn Tennis Club was established. [4] In 1922 St Georges Hill LTC started a combined men's and women's tournament the St George's Hill Open this ran as a senior tennis tour event until 1966.
The St George's Hill Tournament a men's grass court tennis tournament first staged in 1881 at the Weybridge, Surrey, England. [2] The first winner of the men's singles was England's Algernon Wilfred Milne. [2] In 1913 the St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club opened. In 1922 a new combined event was established called the St George's Hill Open Tournament this time the grass court tournament ran until 1966.
Though the tournament is no longer a part of any international tour, it is still being staged today and is known as the St George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament. [5]
Incomplete roll
Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score | ||||||
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St.George's Hill Tournament | |||||||||
1881 [2] | Wilfred Milne | B. Hawes | 3 sets to 0 | ||||||
1883 [6] | Clarence Clarke | William Edward Glyn | 6-0, 6–4, 8-6 | ||||||
St.George's Hill Open | |||||||||
1922 [2] | Brian Norton | Charles Roupell [7] | 6-0, 6-1 | ||||||
1924 | Theodore Mavrogordato | Tony Buzzard | 6-3, 6-0 | ||||||
1925 | Carl-Erik von Braun | J.S. Heagerty | 6-1, 6-3 | ||||||
1926 | Pat Hughes | C.H. Watson | 6-1, 6-2 | ||||||
1927 | Pat Hughes | F. R. L. Crawford | 6-1, 6-1 | ||||||
1928 [8] | Pat Spence | Brian Gilbert | 6-0, 7-5 | ||||||
1929 | Ryuki Miki | Harry Lee | 4-6, 6–3, 7-5 | ||||||
1930 | Ryuki Miki | Donald Ross Rutnam | 6-0, 5–7, 6-2 | ||||||
1931 [2] [9] | Ryuki Miki | Harry Lee | 6-3, 6-3 | ||||||
1932 [2] | Frank H. D. Wilde | Colin Ritchie | 6-3, 6-1 | ||||||
1933 [9] | Ted Avory | Bob Tinkler [10] | ? | ||||||
1934 | Ted Avory | Jack Lysaght | 8-6, 6-4 | ||||||
1935 [11] | Buster Andrews | Dickie Ritchie | 7-5, 3–6, 6-1 | ||||||
1936 | Harry Lee | Ted Avory | 4-6, 6–3, 6-0 | ||||||
1937 | Eric Filby | Charles Russell Harris | 6-1, 7-5 | ||||||
1938 | Nigel G. Sharpe | Donald MacPhail | 8-6, 6-2 | ||||||
1939 [2] | Alejo Domingo Russell | Murray Deloford | 6-3, 6-4 | ||||||
1940/1945 | Not held (due to world war two) | ||||||||
1947 [2] | Ignacy Tloczynski | George Godsell | 6-1, 6-3 | ||||||
1959 | Julian Coni | F. Robinson | 6-3, 6-2 | ||||||
1960 | John Roderick McDonald | Vinay Dhawan | 11-9, 8-6 | ||||||
1961 [2] | Malcom Gibb | M. Pang | 6-2, 6-4 | ||||||
Open era | |||||||||
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