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Tennis tournament in Ireland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The County Kildare Open Tennis Championship, originally known as the County Kildare Tennis Tournament (1879–1880), then County Kildare Championship,[1] is grass court tennis tournament held initially at Naas, County Kildare, in Ireland, established on 2 August 1881.
County Kildare Open Tennis Championship | |
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Tournament information | |
Founded | 1881 |
Editions | 140 (2018) |
Location | Naas County Kildare Republic of Ireland |
Venue | Naas Tennis Club |
Surface | Artificial Grass, outdoors |
Website | http://www.lltc.ie/history/south of ireland championships |
Current champions | |
Men's singles | James Halas |
A County Kildare tennis tournament was first staged in 1879 at the Naas military barracks under the title the County Kildare Tournament.[2] and was a It was a featured event of 1879 Men's Tennis tour and 1880 Men's Tennis tour. On 2 August 1880, a Colonel de Burgh called for a meeting of members of the Naas and Country Kildare Cricket club to discuss forming a country club for the purpose of providing archery, cricket, football, lawn tennis, polo, and pigeon shooting for local town residents.[3][4]
On 1 January 1881 the County Kildare Club was formally established (later changed to Naas Lawn Tennis Club).[5] In August 1881 the County Kildare Open Tennis Championships came into existence.[6] In 1939 the event was won by Irish Davies Cup player George McVeagh.[7] This tournament is still being staged today.[8]
Notes: Challenge round: The final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921) [9] in some tournaments not all.
Included:[2]
Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
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1879 [lower-alpha 1] | Algernon A. M. Aylmer | James G. Kennedy | 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.[10] |
1880 [lower-alpha 2] | Joseph R. Rainsford | Jacob R. Sherrard | ?[2][11] |
1881[lower-alpha 3] | Peter Aungier[12] | W.A. Cairnes | ?[2][13] |
1882[lower-alpha 4] | Peter Aungier[14] | John William Young | 6–1, 6–4, 6–3[2] |
1883[lower-alpha 5] | Peter Aungier | Algernon A. M. Aylmer | 6–0, 6–3, 6–2[2][15] |
1884[lower-alpha 6] | Peter Aungier | Thomas Harrison Griffiths | 6–3, 3–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4[2][16] |
1887[lower-alpha 7] | Algernon A. M. Aylmer | Cecil J. Cramer-Roberts | 6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 6–0[2][17] |
1889[lower-alpha 8] | C. Johnson | Richard J. Hornidge | 6–2, 6–4, 6–1[2] |
1939 | George McVeagh | George McVeagh[18] | ? |
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