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Bad Neuenahr International

The Bad Neuenahr International or Internationale Bad Neuenahr was a combined tennis tournament founded in 1909 as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler International.[1] It was held at HTC Bad Neuenahr, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was discontinued in 1978.[1]

Bad Neuenahr International
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1909; 115 years ago (1909)
Abolished1978; 46 years ago (1978)
LocationBad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
VenueHTC Bad Neuenahr
SurfaceClay (outdoors)

History

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Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town[2] in the German Bundesland of the Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district.[3]

In 1882 a spa was first established in the town at Wiesenallee.[4] Then two new lawn tennis courts were built, later further two tennis courts were built at the Kurhaus.[4] By the early 1890s visiting wealthy spa guests and locals began to play against each other on these courts.[5] In 1900 in order to promote tennis responsibility for staging events was down to the spa administrators.[4]

In 1909 the first international open tennis tournaments were held and continued until 1911.[4] The foreign participants were usually bathers taking a cure in the spa's.[4] In 1912 the spa administration donated a "gold cup" that attracted good players from all over Europe to Neuenahr,[5] known as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Gold Cup awarded to winners of the men's singles event in the international tournament.[1] The first winner was the Belgian champion Louis Jacques Émile Trasenster.[1][4] In 1920 the Hockey Tennis Club Bad Neuenahr was opened,[6] with 14 new clay courts and the event transferred there. In 1921 the spa administration transferred the event to HTC Bad Neuenahr.[1][7] The tournament was staged annually until 1978.[1]

Finals

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Men's singles

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(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1912[8]   Louis Trasenster   Claus Herberg 6–3, 6–3, 6–1.[8]
1913[8]   Claus Herberg   Wilhelm Gisbert Groos 6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1915/1919 Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1920[8]   Dr. A. Marcotty ? ?
1921[8]   Ernst Büchting ? ?
1922[8]   Frans Ludwig Hoppe   Ernst Büchting ?
1924[8]   Heinz C. Landmann   Fritz Kuhlmann ?
1925[8]   Conrad Kupsch   Fritz Kuhlmann 6–2, 11–9, 5–7, 6–2
1926[8]   Erwin Statz   Herr Claus 6–0, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
1927[8]   Cornelis Albert Bryan[9]   Otto Froitzheim 8–6 4–6 3–6 ret.
1928[8]   Fritz Kuhlmann   Jacques Bonte[10] 6–3, 4–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
1929[8]   Jacques Boussus   Yoshiro Ota 6–4, 6–4, 7–5
1930[8]   Eberhard Nourney   Ludmar Heitmann 6–2, 6–4, 6–2
1931[8]   Eberhard Nourney (2)   Heinz Remmert 5–7, 6–1, 6–1, 6–0
1932[8]   C.Rudolf Strauss   Karl Heinz Kretzer 8–6, 1–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–1
1933[8]   Helmut Sindern   Josef Hirtz 7–5, 0–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5
1934[8]   Eberhard Nourney (3)   Erwin Statz 2–0, ret.
1935[8]   Eberhard Nourney (4)   Edgar Dettmer[11] 7-5, 7-5, 6-0
1936[8]   Fritz Kuhlmann   Edgar Dettmer 2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3, 6–0
1937[8]   Edmund Bartkowiak   Harald Richter 6–1, 6–2, 6–0
1938[8]   Edmund Bartkowiak (2)   Ludmar Heitmann 6–2, 6–1, 6–1
1939[8]   Helmut Gulcz   Ernst Buchholz 6–1, 4–6, 6–1, 9–7
1940-48 Not held (due to World War II)
1949[8]   Engelbert Koch   Ernst Buchholz 6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1950[8]   Ernst Buchholz   Dilip Bose 13–11, 6–3, 6–3
1951[8]   Wladyslaw Skonecki   Ernst Buchholz 4–6, 6–1, ret.
1952[1]   Tony Mottram   Ian Ayre 6–0, 6–3, 6–1
1953[1]   Gottfried von Cramm   Ernst Buchholz 4–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–3
1954[1]   Tony Mottram (2)   Ernst Buchholz 7–5, 6–0
1955[1]   Hugh Stewart   Malcolm Fox 6–2, 6–2
1956[1]   Gordon Forbes   Ladislav Legenstein 3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 8–6
1957[1]   Jaroslav Drobný   Pierre Darmon 6–1, 6–8, 6–4
1958[1]   Ramanathan Krishnan   Carlos Fernandes 3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
1959[1]   Patricio Rodriguez   Ernst Buchholz 6–2, 7–5, 6–3
1960[1]   Peter Scholl   Carlos Fernandes 4–6, 6–2, 6–1
1961[1]   Rod Laver   Luis Ayala 6–3, 4–6, 6–3
1962[1]   Neale Fraser   Ingo Buding 6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1963[1]   István Gulyás   Martin Mulligan 6–3, 4–6, 9–7, 6–0
1964[1]   José Edison Mandarino   Boro Jovanović 6–1, 8–6, 6–4
1965[1]   Attila Korpás   Lothar Pawlik 4–6, 8–6, 6–4
1966[1]   Attila Korpás (2)   Horst Guenther Klameth 6–2, 8–6, 6–0
1967[1]   Wilhelm Bungert   Harald Elschenbroich 2–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–4
1968[1]   Koji Watanabe   István Gulyás 6–4, 6–8, 6–4
↓  Open era  ↓
1969[1]   Martin Mulligan   Wilhelm Bungert 6–3, 3–6, 13–11, 6–2
↓  ILTF Independent Circuit  ↓
1970[1]   Attila Korpás (3)   István Gulyás ?
1971[1]   Christian Kuhnke   Attila Korpás 7–5, 6–1, 8–10, 6–2
1972[1]   Karl Meiler   Attila Korpás 6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1973[1]   Alex Kurucz   Hans-Joachim Plötz shared title
1974[1]   Harald Elschenbroich   Jan Kukal 5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 7–6
1975[1]   Szabolcs Baranyi   Jan Kukal 6–4, 2–0, ret.
1976[1]   Peter Elter   Werner Zirngibl 6–1, 1–0, ret.
1977[1]   Patrick Proisy   Jürgen Fassbender 6–3, 6–1
1978[1]   Jürgen Fassbender   Buster Mottram 6–3, 6–4, 1–6, 6–7, 2–1, retd.

Women' singles

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(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1911   Baroness Hedwig Loë   Baroness Grete Loë 8–6, 4–6, 7–5
1912   G. Schell   M. Kaubes 6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1915/1919 Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1924   Fräulein Lutzmann   Frau Suschen Rütten 6–4, 6–3, 6–3
1925   Fräulein Lutzmann (2)   Lidda Neumerkel 3–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–2
1926   Fräulein Lutzmann (3)   Frau Suschen Rütten 6-1, 6-1, 6-3
1928   Madzy Rollin Couquerque   Margaretha Canters 5–7. 6–1 abandoned
1929   Ilse Friedleben   Hilde Krahwinkel 6–0, 6–0
1931   Ilse Friedleben (2)   Klara Hammer 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
1935   Lisa Fabian   Erna Reimann 6–1, 4–6, 6–4
1936   Lisa Fabian   Ingeborg Schumann 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1937   Margarathe Käppel   Irmgard Rost 6–3, 6–0
1938   Fräulein ten Elsen   Fräulein Rduch 8–6, 6–6, retd
1940-48 Not held (due to World War II)
1952   Joy Gannon Mottram   Beryl Penrose 6–1, 6–2
1953   Joy Gannon Mottram (2)   Helena Matouš 6–1, 6–3
1954   Joy Gannon Mottram (3)   Edda Buding 6–2, 6–1
1957   Angela Mortimer   Patricia Ward 6-1 8-6
1958   Ilse Buding   Rita Bentley 6–4, 6–4
1959   Patricia Ward   Norma Baylon 4–6, 7–5, 7–5
1961   Sandra Reynolds   Renée Schuurman 6–3, 6–1
1962   Renée Schuurman   Heide Schildknecht 6–2, 6–1
1964   Elizabeth Starkie   Faye Toyne 6–1, 6–2
1967   Helga Schultze   Susanne Korpas 6–2, 6–1
↓  Open era  ↓
1969   Helga Schultze-Hosl (2)   Helga Niessen 5–7, 7–5, 6–4

References

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