Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Hampshire Tennis Championships
Tennis tournament From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
The Hampshire Tennis Championships [1] or the Hampshire Championships was a men's and women's grass court tennis event established in 1878 as the Bournemouth CLTC Tournament. In 1906 the Bournemouth tournament was upgraded to a county level event and renamed as Hampshire County Lawn Tennis Championships that ran continuously until 1981.
Remove ads
History
On 21 May 1878 the Bournemouth Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club staged its first tennis spring meeting the Bournemouth CLTC Tournament held at the cricket ground Dean Park, Bournemouth, Dorset, England that concluded on 24 May 1878.[2] In October 1878 a second autumn meeting was also held at the same venue.
In 1891 the Bournemouth LTC Tournament became known as the Bournemouth Open Tournament.[3] In 1906 the Bournemouth Open Tournament as it was called, was upgraded to a county level event and renamed as the Hampshire Lawn Tennis Championships,[4] that ran continuously until 1981 when it ceased to be part of the international tennis tour.
This tournament is still being staged today as a merged event called the Hampshire & IOW County Championships.[5]
Remove ads
Finals
Summarize
Perspective
Men's Singles
(Incomplete roll)[6]
Women's singles
(Incomplete roll) two versions of the women's event held in * May and ** August.
Remove ads
Event names
- Bournemouth Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club Tournament (1878–1882)
- Bournemouth Lawn Tennis Club Tournament (1883–1891)
- Bournemouth Open Tournament (1891–1905)
- Hampshire County Lawn Tennis Championship (1906–1910)
- Hampshire Lawn Tennis Championships (1911–1960)
- Hampshire Championships (1960–1971)
- Hampshire Tennis Championships (1972–1981)
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads