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.
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]
Incomplete roll
Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
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St.George's Hill Tournament | |||
1881 | Wilfred Milne | B. Hawes | 3 sets to 0 |
1883[6] | Clarence Clarke | William Edward Glyn | 6-0, 6–4, 8-6 |
St.George's Hill Open | |||
1922 | Brian Norton | Charles Roupell[7] | 6-0, 6-1 |
1924 | Theodore Mavrogordato | Tony Buzzard | 6-3, 6-0 |
1925 | Carl-Erik von Braun | J.S. Heagerty | 6-1, 6-3 |
1926 | Pat Hughes | C.H. Watson | 6-1, 6-2 |
1927 | Pat Hughes | F. R. L. Crawford | 6-1, 6-1 |
1928[8] | Pat Spence | Brian Gilbert | 6-0, 7-5 |
1929 | Ryuki Miki | Harry Lee | 4-6, 6–3, 7-5 |
1930 | Ryuki Miki | Donald Ross Rutnam | 6-0, 5–7, 6-2 |
1931[9] | Ryuki Miki | Harry Lee | 6-3, 6-3 |
1932 | Frank H. D. Wilde | Colin Ritchie | 6-3, 6-1 |
1933 | Ted Avory | Bob Tinkler[10] | ? |
1934 | Ted Avory | Jack Lysaght | 8-6, 6-4 |
1935[11] | Buster Andrews | Dickie Ritchie | 7-5, 3–6, 6-1 |
1936 | Harry Lee | Ted Avory | 4-6, 6–3, 6-0 |
1937 | Eric Filby | Charles Russell Harris | 6-1, 7-5 |
1938 | Nigel G. Sharpe | Donald MacPhail | 8-6, 6-2 |
1939 | Alejo Domingo Russell | Murray Deloford | 6-3, 6-4 |
1940/1945 | Not held (due to world war two) | ||
1947 | George Godsell | 6-1, 6-3 | |
1959 | Julian Coni | F. Robinson | 6-3, 6-2 |
1960 | John Roderick McDonald | Vinay Dhawan | 11-9, 8-6 |
1961 | Malcom Gibb | M. Pang | 6-2, 6-4 |
Open era | |||
Incomplete roll
Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
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St.George's Hill Open | |||
1922 | Eleanor Rose | Vera Spofforth Youle | 6-2 8-6 |
1924 | Miss Taylor | Margaret Mangin Hasler | 9-7 6-4 |
1925 | Esna Boyd | Eleanor Rose | 6-3 0-6 6-3 |
1926 | Eleanor Rose | E. Norman | 6-2 8-6 |
1927 | Dorothy Kemmis-Betty Hill | Dorothy Shaw | 6-3 6-3 |
1928 | Peggy Saunders | Ermyntrude Harvey | 6-4 6-4 |
1929 | Phyllis Howkins Covell | Phyllis Mudford | 6-3 6-3 |
1930 | Jenny Sandison | Vera Montgomery | 6-2 6-3 |
1931 | Phyllis Mudford | Esna Boyd | divided title |
1932 | Nancy Lyle | Naomi Trentham | 6-0 6-3 |
1933 | Phyllis Mudford | Peggy Saunders Michell | 6-3 6-3 |
1934 | Elsie Goldsack Pittman | Mary Hardwick | 6-4 3-6 6-3 |
1935 [12] | Helen Wills-Moody | Elsie Goldsack Pittman | 6-0 6-4 |
1936 | Mary Hardwick | Elsie Goldsack Pittman | 9-7 6-0 |
1937[13] | Jadwiga Jedrzejowska | Alice Marble | 3-6 6-4 6-3 |
1938 [14] | Alice Marble | Bonnie Heine Miller | 6–3, 6-4 |
1939 | Jean Nicoll | Betty Nuthall | 6-2, 6-2 |
1940/1945 | Not held (due to world war two) | ||
1946 | Margaret Sharp Lewis | Pearl Gannon Panton | divided title |
1947 | Sheila Piercey Summers | Joy Gannon | 6-1, 7-5 |
1959 | Jenny Wagstaff | Lorna Cornell Cawthorn | 3-6, 6–1, 6-3 |
1960 | Shirley Bloomer Brasher | Rosemary Deloford | 6-1, 6-2 |
1961 | Lorna Cornell Cawthorn | Caroline Yates-Bell | 6-3 6-3 |
1964 | Lorna Cornell Cawthorn | Mary McAnally | 10-8 6-2 |
1966 | Shirley Bloomer Brasher | Lorna Greville-Collins | divided title |
Open era | |||