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Italian Riviera Championships

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The Italian Riviera Championships[1] also known as the San Remo International [2] was a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1903 at San Remo, Liguria, Northern Italy. The tournament was staged at the Tennis Club Sanremo (f.1897) until 1964, and was part of the Italian Riviera circuit of tennis tournaments.

Italian Riviera Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1903; 121 years ago (1903)
Abolished1964; 60 years ago (1964)
LocationSan Remo, Liguria, Northern Italy
VenueTennis Club Sanremo
SurfaceClay

History

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The Italian Riviera Championships (San Remo) [3] were established in 1903. The championships were on regularly occasions the opening event at the start of the Italian clay court season. From 1956 until 1962 it was staged only twice. In 1964 the tournament was discontinued due to funding issues.

Former winners of the men's singles included; Major Ritchie (1903), Anthony Wilding (1908, 1912), Erik Worm (1927, 1930), Jean Lesueur (1931, 1933–1934), Gottfried von Cramm (1940), Dick Savitt (1951) Jaroslav Drobný (1955), and Nicola Pietrangeli (1960, 1963). The women's single was previously won by Dorothy Holman (1925), Elizabeth Ryan (1924, 1928), Lucia Valerio (1929, 1932), Pauline Betz (1947), Doris Hart (1951) Shirley Bloomer (1955), and Almut Sturm (1964).

Venue

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The Italian Riviera Championships was held at the Tennis and Bridge Club San Remo, (f.1897) today known as Tennis Sanremo.[4]

Finals

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Men's singles

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(incomplete roll)[5]

Year Winner Runner-up Score
1903   Major Ritchie   Roy Allen 6–3, 6–1, 6–3
1908   Anthony Wilding   M. Turton 6–0, 6–0, 6–1
1909   Artemas Holmes   George S. Smythe 6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1910   Artemas Holmes (2)   Herbert Bird Routledge 6–0, 6–1, 6–0
1911   Anthony Wilding (2)   Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe 6-4, 2-,6 3–6, 6–4, 6–2
1912   Roy Allen   Mark Hick 6–2, 6–3, 6–2
1913   Roy Allen (2)   Arthur Wallis Myers 6–1, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4
1914   Gordon Lowe   Craig Biddle 6-4, 6-3
1915/1918 Not held (due to World War I)
1924   George William Grounsell   Pietro Malone 6–1, 6–2, 6–2
1927   Erik Worm   Sri-Krishna Prasada 7–5, 6–3, 0–6, 7–5
1928   Placido Gaslini   Erik Worm 6–2, 7–5, 2–6, 4–6, 7–5
1929   Pat Hughes   Eric Peters 6–2, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2
1930   Erik Worm (2)   Pat Hughes 3–6, 6–2, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
1931   Jean Lesueur   Benny Berthet 8–6, 7–5, 1–6, 3–6, 6–2
1932   Béla von Kehrling   George Lyttleton Rogers 6–3, 6–3, 6–3
1933   Jean Lesueur (2)   Giovanni Palmieri 6–3, 6–4, 2–6, 6–1
1934   Jean Lesueur (3)   Wilmer Hines 6–8, 6–3, 6–2, 6–3
1935   Augusto Rado   Josef Caska 6–4, 4–6, 6–1, ret.
1936   Giovanni Palmieri   Augusto Rado 6–2, 6–3, 8–6
1937   Vojtěch Vodička   Józef Hebda 6–2, 2–6, 6–3, 6–1
1939   Franjo Punčec   Giorgio de Stefani 6–3, 6–3, 6–2
1940   Gottfried von Cramm   Francesco Romanoni 3–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5, 6–2
1941/1946 Not held (due to World War II)
1947   József Asbóth   Marcello del Bello 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
1948   Pedro Masip   Henri Cochet 6–1, 6–4, 9–7
1949   Gianni Cucelli   Frank Parker 6–4, 3–6, 7–5, 7–5
1950   Rolando Del Bello   Torsten Johansson 8–6, 6–2, 1–6, 7–5
1951   Dick Savitt   Budge Patty 6–4, 9–7, 4–6, 6–3
1952   Jaroslav Drobný   Milan Branović 6–3, 6–3, 6–2
1953   Władysław Skonecki   Gianni Cucelli 6–3, 6–1, 6–3
1954   Fausto Gardini   Enrique Morea 6–1, 2–6, 6–3, 6–2
1955   Jaroslav Drobný (2)   Budge Patty 5–7, 6–2, 13–11, 6-2
1958   Mario Llamas   Władysław Skonecki 6–4, 6–1, 1–6, 6–4
1960   Nicola Pietrangeli   Giuseppe Merlo 3–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4
1963   Nicola Pietrangeli (2)   Jacques Brichant 6–2, 7–5, 7–5
1964   Jan-Erik Lundqvist   Nicola Pietrangeli 11–9, 6–2, 6–4

Women's singles

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(incomplete roll)

Year Winner Runner-up Score
1908   Rosamund Salusbury   Evelyn Maude Froude Bellew 11-9, 6-1
1909 No women's event
1910   Rosamund Salusbury(2)   Amy Ransome 6–3, 3–6, 6–4
1911[6]   Rosamund Salusbury (3)   Miss Bridgewater 6-1, 6-0
1912   Jessie Tripp   Mieken Rieck 6-1, 7-5
1913   Jessie Tripp (2)   Elizabeth Ryan 4–6, 6–4, 6–4
1914   Jessie Tripp (3)   Margaret Tripp default
1915/1918 Not held (due to World War I)
1924   Elizabeth Ryan   Phyllis Satterthwaite 6-3, 6-0
1926   Phyllis Satterthwaite   Lucia Valerio 6–4, 4–6, 8–6
1927   Miss Hunt ? ?
1928   Elizabeth Ryan (2)   Lucia Valerio 6-4, 6-4
1929   Lucia Valerio   Phyllis Satterthwaite 0–6, 6–3, 6–3
1930   Phyllis Satterthwaite (2)   Hilde Eisenmenger 6-0, 6-1
1931   Phyllis Satterthwaite (3)   Lucia Valerio 5–7, 6–2, 6–2
1932   Lucia Valerio (2)   Ida Adamoff 6-3, 7-5
1933   Cilly Aussem   Simonne Mathieu 6-4, 6-0
1934   Cilly Aussem (2)   Lucia Valerio 6–4, 1–6, 6–1
1935   Cilly Aussem (3)   Lucia Valerio 8-6, 6-3
1936   Ivana Orlandini   Edith Belliard 6–1, 5–7, 7–5
1937   Totta Zehden   Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 4–6, 6–4, 6–3
1938   Minni Hein Müller   Klara Hammer Beutter 6–2, 1–6, 11-9
1939   Sylvia Jung Henrotin   Rosl Kraus 6-4, 6-1
1940   Hella Kovac   Anneliese Ullstein 4–6, 6–1, 6–1
1941/1946 Not held (due to World War II)
1947   Pauline Betz   Helena Straubeova 6-2, 6-0
1948   Annalisa Bossi   Nicla Migliori 6-0, 6-3
1949   Annalisa Bossi (2)   Lucia Manfredi 6-2, 6-2
1950   Annalisa Bossi (3)   Nicla Migliori 2–6, 6–2, 6–1
1951   Doris Hart   Annalisa Bellani 7-5, 6-1
1952   Joan Curry   Annalisa Bellani 9-7, 6-3
1953   Silvana Lazzarino   Joan Curry 6-3, 6-2
1954   Silvana Lazzarino (2)   Totta Zehden 6–4, 6–1
1955   Shirley Bloomer   Elaine Watson 6-2, 6-0
1958   Heather Brewer-Segal   Rosie Reyes 6-2, 6-4
1960   Francesca Gordigiani   Roberta Beltrame 6-1, 7-5
1963   Silvana Lazzarino (3)   Almut Sturm 6-2, 6-1
1964   Almut Sturm   Annalisa Bellani 4–6, 6–4, 6–4

References

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  1. ^ "LAWN TENNIS AT SAN REMO. Very little was done in the opening events on the opening day of the international tournament. Results:— Gentlemen's Open Singles (Italian Riviera Championships)". Globe. London, England: British Newspaper Archive. 14 January 1914. p. 6. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  2. ^ "MOTTRAM BEATEN : Tony Mottram (Britain) was beaten in the San Remo international lawn tennis tournament yesterday by Andrés Gimeno (Spain) who beat him 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals". Coventry Evening Telegraph. Warwickshire, England: British Newspaper Archive. 25 February 1955. p. 34. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  3. ^ Watson, Alfred Edward Thomas (1913). The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. London: Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 221.
  4. ^ "Tennis Sanremo, il circolo". Sanremo Tennis Team (in Italian). Tennis Sanremo, the club. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Tournament – San Remo – Italian Riviera championships". www.tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  6. ^ "LAWN TENNIS AT SAN REMO: Italian Riviera Ladies' Open Singles Championship of San Remo. —Final Round : Miss R. V. Salusbury beat Miss Bridgewater (6-1, 6-0)". Daily Mirror. London, England: British Newspaper Archive. 20 February 1911. p. 18. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
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