Surrey Championships

The Surrey Championships ^[1] also known as the Surrey Grass Court Championships ^[2] and the Surrey County Championships^[1] is a defunct tennis tournament played in Surbiton, Surrey, England on outdoor grass courts. It ran for 73 editions from 1890 to 1981 and after period of 18 years re-emerged as the Surbiton Trophy.

History

The Surrey Championships was first staged in 1890 and was an amateur tournament until the open era of tennis considered an important warm-up event to the Wimbledon championships and the first big opener of the grass court season ^[3] it attracted many former British and foreign Grand Slam champions post open era the tournament was part of the men's Grand Prix Tour in 1974 and from 1979 to 1980 during the 1975 Championships the tournament witnessed the longest single game in tennis history, during a match between Keith Glass and Anthony Fawcett the game was not timed but it contained 37 deuces.^{[lower-alpha 1][4]} the men's championships moved to a northern venue in 1981. In 1997 the tournament was first revived as an exhibition tournament won by Jason Stoltenberg.^[5] then in 1998 the former Surrey Championships was restored with a new name known as the Surbiton Trophy.

Champions

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) in some tournaments, but not all. (c) Indicates challenger

Men's Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1890	Harry S. Barlow	Wilfred Baddeley	5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
1891	No competition
1892 [6]	Harry S. Barlow	Horace Chapman	6-2, 6-2 6-1
1893	No competition
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900 [7]	Charles Dixon	Major Ritchie	6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2
1901 [8]	Charles Dixon		6-2 2-6 6-2 *
1902	Major Ritchie	Charles Martin	6-1, 6-1
1903	Major Ritchie	Brame Hillyard	6-1, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
1904	Sydney H. Smith	Major Ritchie	6–3, 6–3, 6–3
1905	Sydney H. Smith	Edward R. Allen	6-2, 6-3, 6-1
1906 [9]	Sydney H. Smith	Anthony Wilding	walkover
1907 [9]	Arthur Gore	Major Ritchie	6–3, 6–2, 6–3
1908 [9]	Major Ritchie	Arthur Gore	6–3, 6–4, 6–2
1909 [9]	Major Ritchie	Charles Dixon	4–6, 6–2, 6–4, 0–6, 6–4
1910 [9]	Major Ritchie	Robert Powell	6–3, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3
1911 [10]	Charles Dixon	Anthony Wilding	7–5, 3–6, 6–0, 6–1
1912 [9]	Charles Dixon	Major Ritchie	6–2, 6–2, 6–3
1913 [9]	Charles Dixon	Theodore Mavrogordato	6–2, 8–6, 6–3
1914 [1]	Norman Brookes	Francis Gordon Lowe	6–1, 6–1, 5–7, 6–8, 6–3
1915–1918	Not Held – WWI
1919 [11]	Gerald Patterson	Herbert Roper Barrett	6–2, 6–3, 6–2
1920 [9]	Francis Fisher	Theodore Mavrogordato	6–4, 6–4, 6–1
1921	Brian Norton	Sydney M. Jacob	6–2 6–2 6–3
1922 [12]	Brian Norton	Randolph Lycett	9–7, 7–5, 1–6, 6–1
1923 [3]	Randolph Lycett	Brian Norton	3–6 6–4 6–1 2–6 7–5
1924	Jack Hillyard	Henry Mayes	6–4, 1–6, 10–12, 6–3, 6–2
1925	Gordon Crole Rees	Athar-Ali Fyzee	3–6, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2, 6–4
1926	Charles Kingsley	Gordon Crole Rees	6–4, 6–2 ret.
1927	Gordon Crole Rees	Nigel Sharpe	6–1, 6–0
1928	Henry Mayes	Patrick Spence	6–2, 6–4
1929	Eric Peters	Oswald Turnbull	3–6, 6–1, 6–1, 6–3
1930	Yoshiro Ohta	Fred Perry	6–1, 4–6, 6–3
1931 [9]	Iwao Aoki Harry Lee		Title shared
1932	Nigel Sharpe	Iwao Aoki	7–5, 6–3
1933	David Herman David H. Williams		Title shared
1934 [13]	Jiro Yamagishi	Hideo Nishimura	6–3, 6–3
1935	Eskell D. Andrews	Patrick Spence	6–2, 6–3
1936	Cam Malfroy	Harry Lee	6–2, 9–11, 6–0
1937	Robert Tinkler	Pat Sherwood	9–7, 6–3
1938 [9]	John Olliff	Eric Filby	2–6, 6–4, 6–3
1939 [9]	Kho Sin-Kie	Jack Deloford	6–2, 6–4
1940–1945	Not Held – WWII
1946 [9]	Hans van Swol	David Butler	4–6, 6–4, 7–5
1947	Claude F.O. Lister	Marcel Coen	7–5, 6–2
1948	John Bromwich Geoffrey Paish		Title shared
1949	Czesław Spychała	Geoffrey Paish	6–3, 6–0
1950	Narendra Nath	Czesław Spychała	6–2, 6–4
1951	Czesław Spychała	David A. Samaai	1–6, 7–5, 6–3
1952	Ian Ayre	Bryan Woodroffe	6–4, 6–2
1953 [9]	George Worthington	Roger Becker	6–3, 6–1
1954	John Barry Abe Segal		Title shared
1955	Malcolm Anderson	Ramanathan Krishnan	6–3, 6–4
1956	Ian Vermaak	Gordon Forbes	6–4, 6–3
1957	Roger Becker	Alan Mills	7–9, 6–2, 6–3
1958	Roger Becker	Mike Davies	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
1959	Mike Davies	Warren Jacques	7–9, 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
1960	Roger Becker	Keith Diepraam	6–4, 6–1
1961	Martin Mulligan	Warren Jacques	9–7, 6–2
1962	Martin Mulligan	Mark Otway	6–3, 6–4
1963	Roger Taylor	Jaidip Mukerjea	10–8, 9–11, 10–8
1964	David Philips	Bob Carmichael	2–6, 6–4, 8–6
1965	Jan-Erik Lundqvist	Roger Taylor	9–7, 6–3
1966	Keith Wooldridge	Peter Curtis	7–5, 6–4
1967	Roger Taylor	Bobby Wilson	2–6, 6–4, 6–2
Open era
1968	Keith Wooldridge	Ken Fletcher	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
1969	Gerald Battrick	John Cooper	6–2, 6–1
1970	Robert Maud	Frew McMillan	6–4, 6–3
1971	Anand Amritraj	Paul Hutchins	6–2, 6–2
1972	Premjit Lall	Ross Case	6–4, 8–6
1973	Owen Davidson	Tony Roche	4–6, 6–4, 10–8
1974	Bob Giltinan	Syd Ball	6–3, 6–2
1975	Peter McNamara	Steve Docherty	4–6, 9–8, 6–4
1976	Not Held
1977	P. Lawlor	Chris Wells	4-6, 6-3, 8-6
1978	David Lloyd	Willie Davies	6-4, 6-7, 6-5
1979	Victor Amaya	Mark Edmondson	6–4, 7–5
1980	Brian Gottfried	Sandy Mayer	6–3, 6–3

Men's Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1927 – 1978	Unavailable
1979	Tim Gullikson Tom Gullikson	Pat Du Pré Marty Riessen	6–3, 6–7, 8–6
1980	Mark Edmondson Kim Warwick	Andrew Pattison Butch Walts	7–6, 6–7, 6–7, 7–6, 15–13

Women's Singles

• Notes: The 1898 to 1900 events (*) were “closed” tournaments that were restricted to county team members only

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Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1890	May Arbuthnot	Elizabeth Mocatta	6–2, 6–2
1891	No competition
1892	May Arbuthnot	Ivy Arbuthnot	6–3, 6–3
1893	No competition
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898	Ellen Thynne	Amy Wilson Kirby	6–2, 7–5 *
1899	Ellen Thynne	Edith J. Bromfield	6–2, 2–6, 6–2 *
1900	Charlotte Cooper	Ellen Thynne Evered	6–2, 6–2 *
1900	Edith Bromfield	Ellen Thynne Evered	5–7, 6–3, 7–5
1901	Charlotte Cooper Sterry	Edith Bromfield	6–1, 6–3
1902	Charlotte Cooper Sterry	Agnes Morton	6–3, 6–3
1903	Toupie Lowther	Edith Bromfield	3–6, 6–1, 6–3
1904	Connie Wilson	Edith Bromfield	3–6, 6–1, 6–3
1905	Connie Wilson	Ellen Stawell-Brown	6–4, 7–5
1906	Toupie Lowther	Dora Boothby	5–7, 6–4, 8–6
1907	Charlotte Cooper Sterry	Dorothea Douglass Chambers	6–4, 6–3
1908	Alice Greene	Charlotte Cooper Sterry	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
1909	Dora Boothby	Edith Johnson	6–0, 6–4
1910	Dora Boothby	Agnes Morton	6–3, 6–3
1911	Helen Aitchison	Agnes Morton	6–3, 6–4
1912	Ethel Thomson Larcombe	Dora Boothby	7–5, 6–3
1913	Charlotte Cooper Sterry	Madeline Fisher O'Neill	8–6, 6–1
1914	Dorothea Douglass Chambers	Ethel Thomson Larcombe	6–3, 2–6, 6–4
1915	No competition (due to World War I)
1916
1917
1918
1919	Elizabeth Ryan	Dorothea Douglass Chambers	walkover
1920	Dorothea Douglass Chambers	Elizabeth Ryan	6–4, 6–2
1921	Elizabeth Ryan	Dorothy Holman	6–0, 6–0
1922	Elizabeth Ryan	Irene Bowder Peacock	10–8, 6–2
1923	Elizabeth Ryan'	Eleanor Rose	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1924	Elizabeth Ryan	Aurea Farrington Edgington	6–3, 6–4
1925 [14]	Elizabeth Ryan	Kathleen McKane	7–9, 6–1, 6–3
1926	Joan Fry	Phoebe Holcroft Watson	3–6, 6–1, 6–2
1927	Bobbie Heine	Irene Bowder Peacock	1–6, 6–3, 7–5
1928	Elsie Goldsack	Joan Ridley	6–4, 6–2
1929	Betty Nuthall	Elizabeth Ryan	7–5, 6–1
1930	Jenny Sandison	Betty Nuthall	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
1931	Dorothy Shaw Jameson	Joan Austin	divided the prizes
1932	Gwen Sterry	Peggy Michell	7–5, 6–4
1933	Peggy Michell	Elsie Goldsack Pittman	divided the prizes
1934	Elsie Goldsack Pittman	Patricia Brazier	6–3 6–3
1935	Joan Hartigan	Phyllis Mudford King	6–4, 6–3
1936	Dorothy Round	Anita Lizana	6–2, 6–3
1937 [15]	Freda James	Alice Marble	6–4, 6–3
1938 [16]	Helen Wills	Margot Lumb	6–3 6–4
1939	Mary Hardwick	Margot Lumb	6–4, 6–4
1940	No competition (due to World War II)
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946	Kay Stammers Menzies	Gay Moorhouse Chandler	6–4, 6–3
1947	Kay Stammers Menzies	Joan Curry	6–4, 6–3
1948	Joan Curry	Jean Walker-Smith	divided the title
1949	Patricia Canning Todd	Jean Walker-Smith	6–3, 9–7
1950	Jean Walker-Smith	Jean Quertier	6–2, 7–5
1951	Helen Fletcher	Joan Curry	6–3, 6–1
1952	Maureen Connolly	Patricia Canning Todd	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
1953	Patricia Ward	Shirley Bloomer	6–2, 6–3
1954	Shirley Fry	Doris Hart	divided the title
1955	Rosemary Walsh	Daphne Seeney	6–4, 7–5
1956 [17]	Althea Gibson	Anne Shilcock	6–3, 13-11
1957 [18]	Althea Gibson	Thelma Coyne Long	8–6, 7–5
1958 [19]	Althea Gibson	Mimi Arnold	6–1, 6–0
1959	Sally Moore	Ann Haydon	6–4, 6–2
1960	Angela Mortimer	Christine Truman	3–6, 6–4, 9–7
1961	Deidre Catt	Edda Buding	5–7, 6–3, 7–5
1962	Angela Mortimer	Carole Caldwell Graebner	6–4, 6–4
1963 [20]	Deidre Catt	Darlene Hard	1–6, 9–7, 8–6
1964	Ann Haydon Jones	Carole Caldwell Graebner	6–3, 6–1
1965	Christine Truman	Rita Bentley	7–5, 6–1
1966	Winnie Shaw	Mary-Ann Eisel	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
1967	Lynn Abbes	Robin Blakelock-Lloyd	6–4, 6–3
Open era
1968	Judy Tegart-Dalton	Christine Truman	10–8, 6–4
1969	Mary-Ann Eisel	Judy Tegart-Dalton	4–6, 6–4, 8–6
1970	Ann Haydon Jones	Patti Hogan	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
1971 [2]	Judy Tegart-Dalton	Joyce Barclay	9–8, 6–2
1972	Joyce Barclay	Patti Hogan	6–4, 6–3
1973	Wendy Turnbull	Ann Kiyomura	6–2, 6–0
1974	Sue Barker	Sue Mappin	6–2, 7–5
1975	Greer Stevens	Patti Hogan	6–1, 6–4
1976	Not Held
1977	Winnie Shaw	Gwen Sammel	6–3, 7–6
1978	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	Winnie Shaw	6–1, 6–1
1979	Cyntia Doerner-Seiler	Kym Ruddell	6–1, 6–2
1980	Not Held
1981 [21]	Betsy Nagelsen	Barbara Hallquist	6–4, 3–6, 6–3

Notes

References

External links

• https://app.thetennisbase.com/Surrey Championships Roll of Honour
• http://www.tennisarchives.com/Surrey Championships Roll of Honour