St George's Hill Open

St George's Hill Open
St George's Hill Open
Defunct tennis tournament
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
Abolished	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[edit]

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[edit]

Men's Singles[edit]

Incomplete roll

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
St.George's Hill Tournament
1881^[2]	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 ^[2]	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^[2]^[9]	Ryuki Miki	Harry Lee	6-3, 6-3
1932 ^[2]	Frank H. D. Wilde	Colin Ritchie	6-3, 6-1
1933^[9]	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 ^[2]	Alejo Domingo Russell	Murray Deloford	6-3, 6-4
1940/1945	Not held (due to world war two)
1947 ^[2]	Ignacy Tloczynski	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^[2]	Malcom Gibb	M. Pang	6-2, 6-4
Open era

Women's Singles[edit]

Incomplete roll

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
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

References[edit]

^ American Lawn Tennis: Miss Marble in England. New York: American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company. 20 June 1937. p. 17.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Tournament:https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/?St. Georges Hill.. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.
^ Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. George Routledge and Sons. London. England. pp.113-117.
^ "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. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "St. George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament (Surrey)". www.tennisuk.net. Tennis Services UK Limited. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. pp.113-117.
^ "Player: Charles Roupell". ATP Tour. ATP. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "1877 to 2012 Finals Results". stevegtennis.com. Steve G Tennis. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Steve G Tennis
^ "Player: Robert Tinkler". ATP Tour. ATP. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "Lawn Tennis". Keesing's Contemporary Archives. Amsterdam: Keesing's Limited. 1935. p. 1680.
^ Pathfinder. Philadelphia, PA, United States: Farm Journal, Incorporated. 1935. p. 4.
^ American Lawn Tennis
^ "Alice Marble wins Weybridge, England". The Oxnard Daily Courier. Oxnard, California, United States. 4 June 1938. p. 1.

Sources[edit]

1877 to 2012 Finals Results. stevegtennis.com. Steve G Tennis.
American Lawn Tennis. (1937) New York: American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company.
Keesing's Contemporary Archives (1935). Amsterdam: Keesing's Limited.
Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Tournament:St. Georges Hill. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.
Pathfinder. (1935). Philadelphia, PA, United States: Farm Journal, Incorporated.
Routledges Sporting Annual. (1883). George Routledge and Sons. London. England.
St. George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament (Surrey). www.tennisuk.net. Tennis Services UK Limited.
The Oxnard Daily Courier (1938). Oxnard, California, United States.

[1] American Lawn Tennis: Miss Marble in England. New York: American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company. 20 June 1937. p. 17.

[auto-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j 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] "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. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[5] "St. George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament (Surrey)". www.tennisuk.net. Tennis Services UK Limited. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[6] Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. pp.113-117.

[7] "Player: Charles Roupell". ATP Tour. ATP. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[8] "1877 to 2012 Finals Results". stevegtennis.com. Steve G Tennis. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

[Steve_G_Tennis-9] Steve G Tennis

[10] "Player: Robert Tinkler". ATP Tour. ATP. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[11] "Lawn Tennis". Keesing's Contemporary Archives. Amsterdam: Keesing's Limited. 1935. p. 1680.

[12] Pathfinder. Philadelphia, PA, United States: Farm Journal, Incorporated. 1935. p. 4.

[13] American Lawn Tennis

[14] "Alice Marble wins Weybridge, England". The Oxnard Daily Courier. Oxnard, California, United States. 4 June 1938. p. 1.

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