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St George's Hill Open

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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.

St George's Hill Open
Defunct tennis tournament
TourMen's Amateur Tour (1877-1912)
Women Amateur Tour (1877-1912)
ILTF Men's Amateur Tour (1913-1967)
ILTF Women's Amateur Tour (1913-1967)
Founded1881
Abolished1966
LocationSt Georges Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, England.
SurfaceGrass

History edit

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]

Finals edit

Men's Singles edit

Incomplete roll

Year Champions Runners-up Score
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

Women's Singles edit

Incomplete roll

Year Champions Runners-up Score
St.George's Hill Open
1922   Eleanor Rose   Vera Spofforth Youle 6-2 8-6
1924   Miss Taylor   Margaret Mangin Hasler 9-7 6-4
1925   Esna Boyd   Eleanor Rose 6-3 0-6 6-3
1926   Eleanor Rose   E. Norman 6-2 8-6
1927   Dorothy Kemmis-Betty Hill   Dorothy Shaw 6-3 6-3
1928   Peggy Saunders   Ermyntrude Harvey 6-4 6-4
1929   Phyllis Howkins Covell   Phyllis Mudford 6-3 6-3
1930   Jenny Sandison   Vera Montgomery 6-2 6-3
1931   Phyllis Mudford   Esna Boyd divided title
1932   Nancy Lyle   Naomi Trentham 6-0 6-3
1933   Phyllis Mudford   Peggy Saunders Michell 6-3 6-3
1934   Elsie Goldsack Pittman   Mary Hardwick 6-4 3-6 6-3
1935 [12]   Helen Wills-Moody   Elsie Goldsack Pittman 6-0 6-4
1936   Mary Hardwick   Elsie Goldsack Pittman 9-7 6-0
1937[13]   Jadwiga Jedrzejowska   Alice Marble 3-6 6-4 6-3
1938 [14]   Alice Marble   Bonnie Heine Miller 6–3, 6-4
1939   Jean Nicoll   Betty Nuthall 6-2, 6-2
1940/1945 Not held (due to world war two)
1946   Margaret Sharp Lewis   Pearl Gannon Panton divided title
1947   Sheila Piercey Summers   Joy Gannon 6-1, 7-5
1959   Jenny Wagstaff   Lorna Cornell Cawthorn 3-6, 6–1, 6-3
1960   Shirley Bloomer Brasher   Rosemary Deloford 6-1, 6-2
1961   Lorna Cornell Cawthorn   Caroline Yates-Bell 6-3 6-3
1964   Lorna Cornell Cawthorn   Mary McAnally 10-8 6-2
1966   Shirley Bloomer Brasher   Lorna Greville-Collins divided title
Open era

References edit

  1. ^ American Lawn Tennis: Miss Marble in England. New York: American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company. 20 June 1937. p. 17.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Tournament:https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/?St. Georges Hill.. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.
  3. ^ Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. George Routledge and Sons. London. England. pp.113-117.
  4. ^ "A history of the Hill – the origins of top-class tennis in Weybridge • St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club". stghltc.co.uk. St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  5. ^ "St. George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament (Surrey)". www.tennisuk.net. Tennis Services UK Limited. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  6. ^ Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. pp.113-117.
  7. ^ "Player: Charles Roupell". ATP Tour. ATP. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  8. ^ "1877 to 2012 Finals Results". stevegtennis.com. Steve G Tennis. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  9. ^ a b Steve G Tennis
  10. ^ "Player: Robert Tinkler". ATP Tour. ATP. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  11. ^ "Lawn Tennis". Keesing's Contemporary Archives. Amsterdam: Keesing's Limited. 1935. p. 1680.
  12. ^ Pathfinder. Philadelphia, PA, United States: Farm Journal, Incorporated. 1935. p. 4.
  13. ^ American Lawn Tennis
  14. ^ "Alice Marble wins Weybridge, England". The Oxnard Daily Courier. Oxnard, California, United States. 4 June 1938. p. 1.

Sources edit

  • 1877 to 2012 Finals Results. stevegtennis.com. Steve G Tennis.
  • American Lawn Tennis. (1937) New York: American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company.
  • Keesing's Contemporary Archives (1935). Amsterdam: Keesing's Limited.
  • Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Tournament:St. Georges Hill. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.
  • Pathfinder. (1935). Philadelphia, PA, United States: Farm Journal, Incorporated.
  • Routledges Sporting Annual. (1883). George Routledge and Sons. London. England.
  • St. George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament (Surrey). www.tennisuk.net. Tennis Services UK Limited.
  • The Oxnard Daily Courier (1938). Oxnard, California, United States.
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