Italian Riviera Championships Explained

Italian Riviera Championships
Type:	defunct
Location:	San Remo, Liguria, Northern Italy
Venue:	Tennis Club Sanremo
Surface:	Clay

The Italian Riviera Championships^[1] also known as the San Remo International ^[2] was a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1903 at San Remo, Liguria, Northern Italy. The tournament was staged at the Tennis Club Sanremo (f.1897) until 1964, and was part of the Italian Riviera circuit of tennis tournaments.

History

The Italian Riviera Championships (San Remo) ^[3] were established in 1903. The championships were on regularly occasions the opening event at the start of the Italian clay court season. From 1956 until 1962 it was staged only twice. In 1964 the tournament was discontinued due to funding issues.

Former winners of the men's singles included; Major Ritchie (1903), Anthony Wilding (1908, 1912), Erik Worm (1927, 1930), Jean Lesueur (1931, 1933–1934), Gottfried von Cramm (1940), Dick Savitt (1951) Jaroslav Drobný (1955), and Nicola Pietrangeli (1960, 1963). The women's single was previously won by Dorothy Holman (1925), Elizabeth Ryan (1924, 1928), Lucia Valerio (1929, 1932), Pauline Betz (1947), Doris Hart (1951) Shirley Bloomer (1955), and Almut Sturm (1964).

Venue

The Italian Riviera Championships was held at the Tennis and Bridge Club San Remo, (f.1897) today known as Tennis Sanremo.^[4]

Finals

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)^[5]

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Score
1903	Major Ritchie	Roy Allen	6–3, 6–1, 6–3
1908	Anthony Wilding	M. Turton	6–0, 6–0, 6–1
1909	Artemas Holmes	George S. Smythe	6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1910	Artemas Holmes (2)	Herbert Bird Routledge	6–0, 6–1, 6–0
1911	Anthony Wilding (2)		6-4, 2-,6 3–6, 6–4, 6–2
1912	Roy Allen		6–2, 6–3, 6–2
1913	Roy Allen (2)		6–1, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4
1914	Gordon Lowe		6-4, 6-3
1915/1918	Not held (due to World War I)
1924	George William Grounsell		Pietro Malone	6–1, 6–2, 6–2
1927	Erik Worm		7–5, 6–3, 0–6, 7–5
1928	Placido Gaslini	Erik Worm	6–2, 7–5, 2–6, 4–6, 7–5
1929	Pat Hughes		6–2, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2
1930	Erik Worm (2)	Pat Hughes	3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
1931	Jean Lesueur	Benny Berthet	8–6, 7–5, 1–6, 3–6, 6–2
1932	Béla von Kehrling		6–3, 6–3, 6–3
1933	Jean Lesueur (2)	Giovanni Palmieri	6–3, 6–4, 2–6, 6–1
1934	Jean Lesueur (3)		6–8, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3
1935	Augusto Rado		6–4, 4–6, 6–1, ret.
1936	Giovanni Palmieri		6–2, 6–3, 8–6
1937			6–2, 2–6, 6–3, 6–1
1939	Franjo Punčec		6–3, 6–3, 6–2
1940	Gottfried von Cramm		3–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–2
1941/1946	Not held (due to World War II)
1947	József Asbóth		6–2, 6–4, 6–3
1948	Pedro Masip		6–1, 6–4, 9–7
1949	Gianni Cucelli		6–4, 3–6, 7–5, 7–5
1950	Rolando Del Bello		8–6, 6–2, 1–6, 7–5
1951	Dick Savitt		6–4, 9–7, 4–6, 6–3
1952	Jaroslav Drobný	Milan Branović	6–3, 6–3, 6–2
1953	Władysław Skonecki		6–3, 6–1, 6–3
1954	Fausto Gardini		6–1, 2–6, 6–3, 6–2
1955	Jaroslav Drobný (2)	Budge Patty	5–7, 6–2, 13–11, 6-2
1958	Mario Llamas		6–4, 6–1, 1–6, 6–4
1960	Nicola Pietrangeli		3–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4
1963	Nicola Pietrangeli (2)		6–2, 7–5, 7–5
1964	Jan-Erik Lundqvist	Nicola Pietrangeli	11–9, 6–2, 6–4

Women's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Score
1908	Rosamund Salusbury	Evelyn Maude Froude Bellew	11-9, 6-1
1909	No women's event
1910	Rosamund Salusbury(2)	Amy Ransome	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
1911^[6]	Rosamund Salusbury (3)	Miss Bridgewater	6-1, 6-0
1912	Jessie Tripp	Mieken Rieck	6-1, 7-5
1913	Jessie Tripp (2)	Elizabeth Ryan	4–6, 6–4, 6–4
1914	Jessie Tripp (3)	Margaret Tripp	default
1915/1918	Not held (due to World War I)
1924	Elizabeth Ryan	Phyllis Satterthwaite	6-3, 6-0
1926	Phyllis Satterthwaite	Lucia Valerio	6–4, 4–6, 8–6
1927	Miss Hunt	?	?
1928	Elizabeth Ryan (2)	Lucia Valerio	6-4, 6-4
1929	Lucia Valerio	Phyllis Satterthwaite	0–6, 6–3, 6–3
1930	Phyllis Satterthwaite (2)	Hilde Eisenmenger	6-0, 6-1
1931	Phyllis Satterthwaite (3)	Lucia Valerio	5–7, 6–2, 6–2
1932	Lucia Valerio (2)	Ida Adamoff	6-3, 7-5
1933	Cilly Aussem	Simonne Mathieu	6-4, 6-0
1934	Cilly Aussem (2)	Lucia Valerio	6–4, 1–6, 6–1
1935	Cilly Aussem (3)		8-6, 6-3
1936			6–1, 5–7, 7–5
1937	Totta Zehden	Jadwiga Jędrzejowska	4–6, 6–4, 6–3
1938	Minni Hein Müller	Klara Hammer Beutter	6–2, 1–6, 11-9
1939	Sylvia Jung Henrotin	Rosl Kraus	6-4, 6-1
1940	Hella Kovac	Anneliese Ullstein	4–6, 6–1, 6–1
1941/1946	Not held (due to World War II)
1947		Helena Straubeova	6-2, 6-0
1948			6-0, 6-3
1949	Annalisa Bossi (2)		6-2, 6-2
1950	Annalisa Bossi (3)		2–6, 6–2, 6–1
1951	Doris Hart		7-5, 6-1
1952	Joan Curry	Annalisa Bellani	9-7, 6-3
1953	Silvana Lazzarino	Joan Curry	6-3, 6-2
1954	Silvana Lazzarino (2)	Totta Zehden	6–4, 6–1
1955		Elaine Watson	6-2, 6-0
1958	Heather Brewer-Segal	Rosie Reyes	6-2, 6-4
1960			6-1, 7-5
1963	Silvana Lazzarino (3)	Almut Sturm	6-2, 6-1
1964	Almut Sturm		4–6, 6–4, 6–4

Notes and References

News: LAWN TENNIS AT SAN REMO. Very little was done in the opening events on the opening day of the international tournament. Results:— Gentlemen's Open Singles (Italian Riviera Championships). . 19 February 2023 . Globe . British Newspaper Archive . 14 January 1914 . London, England . 6 . subscription.
News: MOTTRAM BEATEN : Tony Mottram (Britain) was beaten in the San Remo international lawn tennis tournament yesterday by Andrés Gimeno (Spain) who beat him 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals.. 19 February 2023 . Coventry Evening Telegraph . British Newspaper Archive . 25 February 1955 . Warwickshire, England . 34 . subscription.
Book: Watson . Alfred Edward Thomas . The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes . 1913 . Longmans, Green, and Company . London . 221 .
Web site: Tennis Sanremo, il circolo . Sanremo Tennis Team . Tennis Sanremo, the club . 19 February 2023 . it-IT . 16 August 2021.
Web site: Tournament – San Remo – Italian Riviera championships . www.tennisarchives.com . Tennis Archives . 28 February 2023.
News: LAWN TENNIS AT SAN REMO: Italian Riviera Ladies' Open Singles Championship of San Remo. —Final Round : Miss R. V. Salusbury beat Miss Bridgewater (6-1, 6-0). . 16 May 2023 . Daily Mirror . British Newspaper Archive . 20 February 1911 . London, England . 18. subscription.