County Kildare Open Tennis Championship Explained

County Kildare Open Tennis Championship
Editions:	140 (2018)
City:	Naas
Country:	County Kildare Republic of Ireland
Venue:	Naas Tennis Club
Surface:	Artificial Grass, outdoors
Website:	http://www.lltc.ie/history/south of ireland championships
Men's Singles:	James Halas

The County Kildare Open Tennis Championship, originally known as the County Kildare Tennis Tournament (1879–1880), then County Kildare Championship,^[1] is grass court tennis tournament held initially at Naas, County Kildare, in Ireland, established on 2 August 1881.

History

A County Kildare tennis tournament was first staged in 1879 at the Naas military barracks under the title the County Kildare Tournament.^[2] and was a It was a featured event of 1879 Men's Tennis tour and 1880 Men's Tennis tour. On 2 August 1880, a Colonel de Burgh called for a meeting of members of the Naas and Country Kildare Cricket club to discuss forming a country club for the purpose of providing archery, cricket, football, lawn tennis, polo, and pigeon shooting for local town residents.^{[3] [4]}

On 1 January 1881 the County Kildare Club was formally established (later changed to Naas Lawn Tennis Club).^[5] In August 1881 the County Kildare Open Tennis Championships came into existence.^[6] In 1939 the event was won by Irish Davies Cup player George McVeagh.^[7] This tournament is still being staged today.^[8]

Champions

Notes: Challenge round: The final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921) ^[9] in some tournaments not all.

Men's singles

Included:^[2]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1879	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	James G. Kennedy	4-6, 6-3, 6-2.^[10]
1880	Joseph R. Rainsford	Jacob R. Sherrard	?^[11]
1881	Peter Aungier^[12]	W.A. Cairnes	?^[13]
1882	Peter Aungier^[14]	John William Young	6–1, 6–4, 6–3
1883		Algernon A. M. Aylmer	6–0, 6–3, 6–2^[15]
1884	Peter Aungier	Thomas Harrison Griffiths	6–3, 3–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4^[16]
1887	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	Cecil J. Cramer-Roberts	6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 6–0^[17]
1889	C. Johnson	Richard J. Hornidge	6–2, 6–4, 6–1
1939	George McVeagh	George McVeagh^[18]	?

Sources

• Abolition of Challenge Rounds". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. EVENING POST, VOLUME CIII, ISSUE 65, 20 March 1922.
• Gray, John (1880–1881). "Sporting Events". The Freeman's Journal. Dublin, Ireland.
• Irish Times, The. (1887). "Tennis Events" Dublin, Ireland.
• "History – Naas LTC" (2017). Naas LTC. Naas, County Kildare, Ireland: Naas Lawn Tennis Club.
• "Naas Chronology 134 AD – 1900 – Kildare Local History . ie". kildarelocalhistory.i.e. Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups. 2017.
• Nieuwland, Alex (2017). "Tournament – County Kildare Tournament". www.tennisarchives.com. Harlingen, Netherlands: Idzznew BV.
• Routledges Sporting Annual (1882) Lawn Tennis in 1881. George Routledge and Son. London.
• Routledges Sporting Annual (1883) Lawn Tennis Principle Meetings of 1882. George Routledge and Son. London.

Further reading

• Ayre's Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, 1908 to 1938, A. Wallis Myers.
• British Lawn Tennis and Squash Magazine, 1948 to 1967, British Lawn Tennis Ltd, UK.
• Dunlop Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, G.P. Hughes, 1939 to 1958, Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd, UK
• Lawn tennis and Badminton Magazine, 1906 to 1973, UK.
• Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annuals and Compendia, Lowe, Sir F. Gordon, Eyre & Spottiswoode
• Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annuals from 1885 to 1922, American Sports Pub. Co, USA.
• The World of Tennis Annuals, Barrett John, 1970 to 2001.

External links

• http://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/county kildare

Notes and References

1. Routledges Sporting Annual (1882) Lawn Tennis in 1881. George Routledge and Son. London. p.71.
2. Web site: Nieuwland . Alex . Tournament – County Kildare Tournament . Tennis Archives . Idzznew BV . 4 August 2018 . Harlingen, Netherlands . 2017.
3. Web site: History – Naas LTC . Naas LTC . Naas Lawn Tennis Club . 4 August 2018 . Naas, County Kildare, Ireland . 2017 . 4 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180804110415/http://naasltc.net/index.php/info/history/ . dead .
4. Web site: Naas Chronology 134 AD – 1900 – Kildare Local History . ie . kildarelocalhistory.ie . Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups . 4 August 2018 . 2017.
5. Naas Lawn Tennis Club
6. Naas Lawn Tennis Club
7. Web site: Lyons . Mary Rose . Naas LTC - a short history by Mary Rose Lyons . Naas LTC . Naas Lawn Tennis Club . 5 July 2022.
8. Naas Lawn Tennis Club
9. Web site: Abolition of Challenge Rounds. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. EVENING POST, VOLUME CIII, ISSUE 65, 20 March 1922. 4 August 2018.
10. Web site: Nieuwland . Alex . Edition – County Kildare Tournament 1879 . www.tennisarchives.com . Idzznew BV . 7 July 2022.
11. News: Gray . John . Sporting Events . The Freeman's Journal . July 1880 . Dublin, Ireland.
12. Routledges Sporting Annual (1882) Lawn Tennis in 1881
13. News: Gray . John . Sporting Events . The Freeman's Journal . August 1881 . Dublin, Ireland.
14. Routledges Sporting Annual (1883) Lawn Tennis Principle Meetings of 1882: . George Routledge and Son. London. p.116.
15. The Field Lawn Tennis Annual 1890
16. News: Gray . John . Sporting Events . The Freeman's Journal . August 1884 . Dublin, Ireland.
17. News: Tennis Events . The Irish Times . July 1887 . Dublin, Ireland.
18. Naas Lawn Tennis Club