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Baden Baden International

The Baden Baden International [1] also known as the Baden-Baden [2] tennis tournament and the Baden Baden Invitational was a tennis event held from 1896 through 1966 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on outdoor Clay courts.

Baden Baden International
Defunct tennis tournament
TourPre-open era (1877–1967)
Founded1896
Abolished1966
Editions55
LocationBaden-Baden, Germany
VenueBaden-Baden Lawn Tennis Club
SurfaceClay / outdoor

History edit

The Baden Baden tournament was first held in 1896 played at the Baden Baden Lawn Tennis Club (today called the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club),[3] Baden-Baden, Germany the tournament fluctuated between July, August, and September over the course of its run the tournament survived for 55 years with various breaks due to the first and second world wars.

Finals edit

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) [4] in some tournaments not all.

* Indicates challenger

Men's singles edit

(Incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1896   Reginald Doherty   Victor Voss 6–1, 7–5, 6–2
1897   Reginald Doherty (2)   Laurence Doherty walkover
1904   Otto Froitzheim   George Ball-Greene 6–1, 3–6, 9–7
1905   George Ball-Greene   Anthony Wilding walkover
1906 [5]   Anthony Wilding   George Ball-Greene 6–1, 6–2, 6–1
1907 [6]   Anthony Wilding (2)   Otto Froitzheim 6–3, 6–2, 6–3
1908 [7]   Anthony Wilding (3)   Otto Froitzheim 6–4, 6–3, 6–4
1909   Otto Froitzheim   Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe walkover
1910   Oscar Kreuzer (2)   Otto Froitzheim 4–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–1, 4-2 ret
1914–1919 Not held (due to world war one)
1924   Otto Froitzheim (3)   Oscar Kreuzer 7–5, 6–2, 7–5
1925   Johann Philip Buss   Otto Reuter 6–1, 10–8, 6–4
1926   Johann Philip Buss (2)   Hector Fisher 7–5, 6–2, 6–2
1927   Otto Froitzheim (4)   Pat Hughes 6–2, 6–2, 6–2
1928   Otto Froitzheim (5)   Erik Worm 7–5, 6–4, 6–0
1929   René de Buzelet   Otto Froitzheim 6–2, 0–6, 2–6, 6–3, ret
1930   Pat Hughes   Otto Froitzheim 2–6, 8–6, ret
1931 Tournament abandoned due to rain
1932   Jacques Brugnon   Pat Hughes 6–3, 6–2, 6–4
1933   Gottfried von Cramm   Louis Haensch 4–6, 6–3, 6–4
1934   Marcel Bernard   Johann Philip Buss 6–3, 6–4
1935   Fritz Kuhlmann   Henner Henkel 4–6, 5–7, 6–2, 6–3, 7–5
1936   Henner Henkel   Adam Borowski 5–7, 6–2, 7–5, 2–6, 7–5
1937   Bernard Destremau ? ?
1938–1949 Not held (partly due to world war two)
1950   Jaroslav Drobný   Heraldo Weiss 6–1, 6–1
1951   Jaroslav Drobný (2)   Sven Davidson 2–6 6–2 6–4 6–2
1952   Jaroslav Drobný (3)   Eric Sturgess 1–6 6–0 6–2
1953   Jaroslav Drobný (4)   Lennart Bergelin 7–5, 4–6, 6–4
1954   Jaroslav Drobný[8] (5)   Giuseppe Merlo 9–11, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–2
1955 [9]   Budge Patty   Fausto Gardini 6–1, 8–6, 6–1
1956 [10]   Jacques Brichant   Budge Patty 6–2, 6–2
1957   Giuseppe Merlo   Rupert Huber 6–3, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4
1958   Sven Davidson   Jacques Brichant 6–2. 6–2
1959   Wolfgang Stuck   Billy Knight 6–3, 6–3, 9–9, ret
1960   Luis Ayala   Torben Ulrich 6–2, 6–4
1961   Manuel Santana   Luis Ayala 10–8, 4–6, 6–3
1962   Neale Fraser   Fred Stolle 6–1, 6–4
1963   Roy Emerson   José Edison Mandarino 6–3, 9–7. 7–5
1964 [11]   Manuel Santana (2)   Ronald Barnes 6–3, 6–3
1965 [12]   Christian Kuhnke   Tony Roche 3–6, 6–1, 6–3
1966   Ken Fletcher   John Newcombe 3–6, 6–3, 6–1

Women's singles edit

(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1896 [13]   Elsie Lane ? Miss Zographo 6–1, 6–0
1897   Blanche Bingley Hillyard   Charlotte Cooper 6–2, 6–4
1905   Elsie Lane (2) ? Lucie Bergmann 6–4, 6–4
1906   Dorothea Douglass   Toupie Lowther 6–4, 6–4
1907   Daisy Kercheval-Hole   Hedwig Neresheimer 6–4, 6–3
1908   Dagmar von Krohn   Marie Bertrand Amende 6–2, 6–0
1909   Agnes Morton   Dagmar von Krohn 6–3, 6–2
1910   Agnes Morton (2)   Hedwig Neresheimer 6–4 6–3
1913   Lilly Salin   Anita Heimann Lent 6–0, 7–5
1914–1919 Not held (due to world war one)
1921   Ilse Friedleben   Frau von Udermann ?
1924   Ilse Friedleben (2) ? ?
1925   Irma Kallmeyer   Erika de Lacroix ?
1926   Ilse Friedleben (3)   Irma Kallmeyer 6–1, 6–3
1927   Irma Kallmeyer   Anna Weihermann Hemp 6–8, 6–4, 7–5
1928   Ilse Friedleben (4)   Irma Kallmeyer 6–1, 6–2
1929   Simonne Mathieu   Ilse Friedleben 7–5, 6–2
1930   Simonne Mathieu (2)   Ilse Friedleben 6–2, 7–5
1931   Ilse Friedleben (5)   Paula von Reznicek 6–4, 4–6, 6–4
1932   Lolette Payot   Paula von Reznicek 4–6, 8–6, 6–3
1933   Toni M. Schomburgk   Klara Hammer 2–6, 6–1, 6–2
1935   Marie-Louise Horn   Anne Peitz Schneide 6–4, 6–1
1937   Irmgard Rost   Gisela Enger 6–4, 6–3
1938   Totta Zehden   Gisela Enger 6–1, 6–3
1940   Hilde Weihe   Fraulein Rduch walkover
1941–1949 Not held (partly due to world war two)
1950   Dorothy Head   Mary Terán de Weiss 7–5, 7–5
1951   Mary Terán de Weiss   Mrs Karel Kozeluh 2–6 6–2 6–4 6–2
1952   Joy Gannon Mottram   Joan Curry ?
1953   Joy Gannon Mottram (2)   Dorothy Head Knode 9–7, 1–6, 10–8
1954   Joy Gannon Mottram (3)   Edda Buding 6–1, 6–1
1957   Yola Ramírez   Edda Buding 6–2, 6–1
1958   Angela Mortimer   Edda Buding 5–7, 6–3, 8–6
1959   Edda Buding   Erika Obst Launert 6–4, 7–5
1960   Angela Mortimer   Yola Ramírez 4–6, 6–2, 6–2
1961   Elizabeth Starkie   Margot Dittmeyer 6–3, 1–6, 6–0
1962   Maria Bueno   Renée Schuurman 2–6, 6–4, 6–3
1963   Norma Baylon   Annette Van Zyl 6–2, 2–6, 6–2
1964 [14]   Maria Bueno (2)   Norma Baylon 6–3, 4–6, 6–4
1965 [15]   Margaret Smith   Lesley Turner 6–2, 6–1
1966   Helga Schultze   Helga Niessen 6–3, 3–6, 7–5

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ "Drobny in Finals". news.google.com. St. Petersburg Times, Sep 5, 1954. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Who Won?". news.google.com. St. Petersburg Times, Sep 10, 1956. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. ^ "Tennisplatz "Rot-Weiß"". www.baden-baden.com. Baden-Baden EN. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Abolition of Challenge Rounds". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. EVENING POST, VOLUME CIII, ISSUE 65, 20 MARCH 1922. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Internationales Lawntennis-Turnier in Baden-Baden" (PDF). Bohemia. 12 September 1906. p. 6.
  6. ^ "Tennis in Germany". The North Western Advocate and the Emu Bay Times. Tas.: National Library of Australia. 10 September 1907. p. 3.
  7. ^ "LAWN TENNIS AT BADEN". The Mercury. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 10 September 1908. p. 5.
  8. ^ "Drobny in Finals". news.google.com. St. Petersburg Times, Sep 5, 1954. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  9. ^ "Patty Captures German Tennis Title". news.google.com. The Times News, Sep 5, 1955. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Who Won?". news.google.com. St. Petersburg Times, Sep 10, 1956. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  11. ^ "Tenis Mundial". news.google.com. El Tiempo, Aug 3, 1964. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Minute Sports Page". news.google.com. Spokane Daily Chronicle, Aug 2, 1965. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  13. ^ Gillmeister, Heiner (1998). Tennis : a cultural history (Repr. ed.). London: Leicester University Press. p. 242. ISBN 9780718501952.
  14. ^ "Tenis Mundial". news.google.com. El Tiempo, Aug 3, 1964. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  15. ^ "Minute Sports Page". news.google.com. Spokane Daily Chronicle, Aug 2, 1965. Retrieved 5 October 2016.

References edit

  • Lawn Tennis and Badminton Magazines, 1896–1901, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd., London, UK.
  • Lawn Tennis and Croquet Magazines, 1901–1920, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd., London, UK.
  • Tennis:Cultural History, Gillmeister, Heiner, A&C Black, 1998, ISBN 9780718501952.

External links edit

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