| Bordighera Championship | |
| Type: | defunct |
| Founded: | 1913 |
| Ended: | 1952 |
| Location: | Bordighera, Liguria, Italy |
| Venue: | Bordighera LTC |
| Surface: | Clay |
The Bordighera Championship [1] was a combined clay court tennis tournament held at the Bordighera Lawn Tennis Club(f.1878),[2] Bordighera, Liguria, Italy from 1913 to 1952.
The Bordighera Lawn Tennis Club was formally established in 1878 with the help of the Bishop of London John Jackson who chaired a committee of British expatriates,[3] who were resident in Bordighera at that time to provide funds for the construction of the tennis behind the English Church.[3] (this was the first tennis club in Italy).[4] In 1913 the Bordighera Championship was established.[5]
In 1939 at the outset of World War II the British community living in Bordighera left, and international players abandoned the tournament.[3] Following the war the tournament continued as a local event for Italian players, and the championship was last staged in 1952, the men's singles was won by Orlando Sirola.[6]
Notable winners of this tournament included in the men's singles; Anthony Wilding (1914), Jack Hillyard (1922–1924), Erik Worm (1927–1928), Giorgio de Stefani (1928), George Lyttleton Rogers (1931),[7] Giovanni Palmieri (1932, 1934, 1936–1937), Jean Le Sueur (1935, 1938) and Henner Henkel (1939).[6]
Former notable winners of women's singles title included; Phyllis Carr Satterthwaite (1922–1923, 1926, 1929), Elizabeth Ryan (1927–1928), Dorothy Holman (1925), Joan Ridley (1928–30), Ilse Friedleben (1931) and Simonne Mathieu (1935) and Gracyn Wheeler Kelleher (1939).[6]