Old Dominion Championship

Old Dominion Championship
Defunct tennis tournament
Tour	USNLTA Circuit (1905-1923) ILTF Circuit (1923-36)
Founded	1905 (1905)
Abolished	1936 (1936)
Location	Richmond, Virginia, United States
Venue	Hermitage Golf Club (1905-11) Country Club of Virginia (1912-36)
Surface	Clay

The Old Dominion Championship also known as the Old Dominion Open Championship was a men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1905. It was first played at the Hermitage Golf Club, Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1905. In 1936 the final edition was played Country Club of Virginia, after which when it was downgraded from the main worldwide ILTF Circuit and discontinued.

History

In 1905 the first edition of the Old Dominion Championships staged at the Hermitage Golf Club, in Richmond, Virginia. The tournament was played annually there until 1911. In 1912 the event was then relocated to the Country Club of Virginia, also in Richmond. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts usually in late spring or early summer. During World War I in 1917 that edition was given status of a special patriotic tournament held for the benefit of the Red Cross. In 1918 the men's event was staged, but there was no women's tournament that year. It was a sanctioned event on the USNLTA Circuit from 1905 to 1923, then part of the ILTF Circuit from 1924 to 1936 when it was discontinued.

Finals

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Winners	Runners-up	Score
1905	Frederick Gresham Pollard	Charles F. McIntosh	6–2, 8–6, 6–1.
1906	Richard Hooker	Frederick Gresham Pollard	w.o.
1907	Frederick Gresham Pollard	Richard Hooker	w.o.
1908	Robert L. James	Frederick Gresham Pollard	w.o.
1909	Richard H. Palmer	Robert L. James	7–5, 6–3, 6–3.
1910	Richard H. Palmer (2)	Frank J. Hall	6–3, 1–6, 6–3.
1911	Theodore Pell	Richard H. Palmer	6–2, 4–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3.
1912	Nat Thornton	Theodore Pell	w.o.
1914	Theodore Pell (2)	Nat Thornton	6–4, 6–2, 6–4.
1915	Theodore Pell (3)	Carlton Y. Smith	6–2, 6–1, 6–3.
1916	Edward H. Whitney	Theodore Pell	w.o.
1917	William Erskine Buford	Edward H. Whitney	w.o.
1919	Ichiya Kumagae	Hugh Grigsby Whitehead	6–0, 6–1, 6–1.
1920	Percy Lloyd Kynaston	Ichiya Kumagae	w.o.
1923	John Temple Graves Jr.	Thomas J. Mangan	4–6, 6–2, 6–4, 5–7, 6–1.
1925	Edward Jacobs	John Temple Graves Jr.	6–1, 6–2, 2–6, 8–6.
1931	Julius Seligson	Herbert Bowman	6–4, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3.
1932	Herbert Bowman	Alex Keles	6–0, 6–2, 6–2.
1933	Herbert Bowman (2)	Lorenzo Nodarse	3–6, 6–1, 6–3, 7–5.
1934	Harold Turner MacGuffin	Alphonso Smith	4–6, 6–1, 6–3, 7–5.
1936	Herbert Bowman (3)	Harold Turner MacGuffin	6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 4–5, ret.

Women's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Winners	Runners-up	Score
1905	Connie Evans	Miss Tannor	2–0 sets
1906	Connie Evans (2)	Sadie Smith	6–1, 6–3
1907	Connie Evans (3)	Bessie Upshur	6–1, 6–1
1908	Connie Evans (4)	Sophie Meredith	6–5, 6–2
1909	Hildegarde Turle	Connie Evans	4–6, 6–0, 6–4
1910	Connie Evans Sullivan (5)	Hildegarde Turle	8–6, 6–2
1911	Connie Evans Sullivan (6)	Sophie Meredith	6–3, 6–0
1912	Hildegarde Turle Taylor	Carrie Symington Hardy	6–4, 6–2
1913	Connie Evans Sullivan (7)	Hildegarde Turle Taylor	6–4, 13–11
1914	Marie Wagner	Connie Evans Sullivan	6–2, 6–3
1915	Florence Ballin	Elisabeth Moore	2–6, 6–4, 6–1
1916	Molla Bjurstedt	Florence Ballin	6–2, 6–2
1917	Elizabeth Warren	Penelope Anderson	6–2, 1–6, 6–4
1918	No women's event held
1919	Marie Wagner (2)	Elisabeth Moore	6–3, 6–1
1920	Marie Wagner (3)	Penelope Anderson	6–1, 6–1
1921	Marie Wagner (4)	Florence Ballin	6–3, 6–1
1922	Mrs Winifred Ellis	Elizabeth Warren	6–2, 6–4
1923	Penelope Anderson	Mrs Winifred Ellis	6–2, 6–4
1925	Miss Wakeford	Miss Heyel	6–3, 6–4
1927	Marion Zinderstein Jessup	Penelope Anderson	6–3, 6–3
1930	Penelope Anderson (3)	Mrs W. Parrish	6–4, 6–2
1931	Penelope Anderson (4)	Alice Deford	6–0, 6–2
1934	Reba Kirson	Louise Rogerson	6–4, 6–2
1935	Mary Cootes	Reba Kirson	6–3, 6–4
1936	Edith Clarke	Mary Cootes	6–4, 6–4