North London Championships | |
Type: | defunct |
Location: | Stamford Hill, London, England |
Venue: | Gipsy Lawn Tennis Club |
Tour: | ILTF |
Surface: | Grass- outdoors |
The North London Championships[1] also known as the Gipsy Championships or simply Gipsy was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded as the Gipsy Lawn Tennis Tournament in 1894.[2] The tournament was held at the Gipsy Lawn Tennis Club,[3] Stamford Hill, London, England until 1930.[4]
The North London Championships were established in 1894.[5] The tournament was staged at the Gipsy Lawn Tennis Club,[6] continuously until 1915, it was discontinued because of World War I. The tournament then resumed in 1919 and continued through till 1930 when it was abolished.[7]
Notbale winners of the men's singles title included; Arthur Gore, Herbert Roper Barrett, Harold Segerson Mahony, Major Ritchie, Theodore Michel Mavrogordato, Zenzo Shimidzu, Gordon Lowe, and Henry Mayes.[8] Winners of the women's singles championship included; Blanche Hillyard, Edith Austin, Dorothea Douglass, Hilda Lane, Agnes Morton, Dorothy Holman, Geraldine Ramsey Beamish, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, Helen Wills, Elizabeth Ryan and Helen Jacobs.