St George's Hill Open Explained

St George's Hill Open
Type:defunct
Tour:Men's Amateur Tour (1877-1912)
Women Amateur Tour (1877-1912)
ILTF Men's Amateur Tour (1913-1967)
ILTF Women's Amateur Tour (1913-1967)
Founded:1881
Ended:1966
Location:St Georges Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, England.
Surface:Grass

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.

History

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

Men's Singles

Incomplete roll

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
St.George's Hill Tournament
1881 Wilfred Milne B. Hawes3 sets to 0
1883[6] Clarence Clarke William Edward Glyn6-0, 6–4, 8-6
St.George's Hill Open
1922 Brian Norton Charles Roupell[7] 6-0, 6-1
1924 Theodore Mavrogordato Tony Buzzard6-3, 6-0
1925 Carl-Erik von Braun J.S. Heagerty6-1, 6-3
1926 Pat Hughes C.H. Watson6-1, 6-2
1927 Pat Hughes F. R. L. Crawford6-1, 6-1
1928[8] Pat Spence Brian Gilbert6-0, 7-5
1929 Ryuki Miki Harry Lee4-6, 6–3, 7-5
1930 Ryuki Miki Donald Ross Rutnam6-0, 5–7, 6-2
1931[9] Ryuki Miki Harry Lee6-3, 6-3
1932 Frank H. D. Wilde Colin Ritchie6-3, 6-1
1933 Ted Avory Bob Tinkler[10] ?
1934 Ted Avory Jack Lysaght8-6, 6-4
1935[11] Buster Andrews Dickie Ritchie7-5, 3–6, 6-1
1936 Harry Lee Ted Avory4-6, 6–3, 6-0
1937 Eric Filby Charles Russell Harris6-1, 7-5
1938 Nigel G. Sharpe Donald MacPhail8-6, 6-2
1939 Alejo Domingo Russell Murray Deloford6-3, 6-4
1940/1945Not held (due to world war two)
1947 George Godsell6-1, 6-3
1959 Julian Coni F. Robinson6-3, 6-2
1960 John Roderick McDonald Vinay Dhawan11-9, 8-6
1961 Malcom Gibb M. Pang6-2, 6-4
Open era

Women's Singles

Incomplete roll

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
St.George's Hill Open
1922 Eleanor Rose Vera Spofforth Youle6-2 8-6
1924 Miss Taylor Margaret Mangin Hasler9-7 6-4
1925 Esna Boyd Eleanor Rose6-3 0-6 6-3
1926 Eleanor Rose E. Norman6-2 8-6
1927 Dorothy Kemmis-Betty Hill Dorothy Shaw6-3 6-3
1928 Peggy Saunders Ermyntrude Harvey6-4 6-4
1929 Phyllis Howkins Covell Phyllis Mudford6-3 6-3
1930 Jenny Sandison Vera Montgomery6-2 6-3
1931 Phyllis Mudford Esna Boyddivided title
1932 Nancy Lyle Naomi Trentham6-0 6-3
1933 Phyllis Mudford Peggy Saunders Michell6-3 6-3
1934 Elsie Goldsack Pittman Mary Hardwick6-4 3-6 6-3
1935 [12] Helen Wills-Moody Elsie Goldsack Pittman6-0 6-4
1936 Mary Hardwick Elsie Goldsack Pittman9-7 6-0
1937[13] Jadwiga Jedrzejowska Alice Marble3-6 6-4 6-3
1938 [14] Alice Marble Bonnie Heine Miller6–3, 6-4
1939 Jean Nicoll Betty Nuthall6-2, 6-2
1940/1945Not held (due to world war two)
1946 Margaret Sharp Lewis Pearl Gannon Pantondivided title
1947 Sheila Piercey Summers Joy Gannon6-1, 7-5
1959 Jenny Wagstaff Lorna Cornell Cawthorn3-6, 6–1, 6-3
1960 Shirley Bloomer Brasher Rosemary Deloford6-1, 6-2
1961 Lorna Cornell Cawthorn Caroline Yates-Bell6-3 6-3
1964 Lorna Cornell Cawthorn Mary McAnally10-8 6-2
1966 Shirley Bloomer Brasher Lorna Greville-Collinsdivided title
Open era

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Book: American Lawn Tennis: Miss Marble in England . 20 June 1937 . American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company . New York . 17 . en.
  2. 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. Web site: 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 . 15 October 2022 . 28 May 2020.
  5. Web site: St. George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament (Surrey) . www.tennisuk.net . Tennis Services UK Limited . 15 October 2022.
  6. Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. pp.113-117.
  7. Web site: Player: Charles Roupell . ATP Tour . ATP . 15 October 2022.
  8. Web site: 1877 to 2012 Finals Results . stevegtennis.com . Steve G Tennis . 16 October 2022.
  9. Steve G Tennis
  10. Web site: Player: Robert Tinkler . ATP Tour. ATP. 15 October 2022.
  11. Book: Keesing's Contemporary Archives . 1935 . Keesing's Limited. . Amsterdam . 1680 . en . Lawn Tennis.
  12. Book: Pathfinder . 1935 . Farm Journal, Incorporated . Philadelphia, PA, United States . 4 . en.
  13. American Lawn Tennis
  14. News: Alice Marble wins Weybridge, England. . The Oxnard Daily Courier . 4 June 1938 . Oxnard, California, United States . 1.