The Homburg Cup

The Homburg Cup tournament was first held in 1894 played at the Bad Homburg Tennis Club, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany and usually August. The Homburg Cup was organised by the 1st President of the German Tennis Federation, Carl August von der Meden, the early staging of this event attracted some of the most well known aristocracy in Europe such as the, Emperor of Germany, Crown Prince of Greece, and the Duke of Cambridge numerous other aristocrats appeared every year which generated significant press coverage for the event, prize money that was on offer was said to be substantial at the time which was probably why it was considered one of the most important [2] and prestigious [3] early pre-open era tournaments in continental Europe and Germany along with German Championships known then for its ability to attract the best players in the world throughout its early period certainly up to the beginning of World War I. It was an open event and featured the likes of the Arthur Gore, Anthony Wilding, Joshua Pim Laurence and Reginald Doherty, A Harold Mahony and Max Décugis its lasted 41 years until 1935 the event featured men's doubles,[4] women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles [5] competition.

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 not all. * Indicates challenger

Men's Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1894	Samuel Henry Hughes	?	?
1895 [6]	William M. Cranston	Reginald Forbes	6-0, 6-3, 6-1
1896 [7]	Reginald Doherty	William M. Cranston	walkover
1897 [8]	Reginald Doherty	George Hillyard	walkover
1898 [9]	Reginald Doherty	Laurence Doherty	walkover
1899	Reginald Doherty	Clarence Hobart	3-6, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4
1900 [10]	Laurence Doherty	George Hillyard [11]	7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2
1901 [12]	Max Decugis	Jacques Worth	walkover
1902 [13]	Josiah Ritchie	Frederick William Payn	6-3, 6-1, 6-4
1903	George C. B. Greene	Josiah Ritchie	7-5, 7-5, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3
1904	George C. B. Greene [14]	Wylie Cameron Grant	9-7, 6-2, 6-3
1905	George C. B. Greene	?	won by default
1906	Anthony Wilding [15]	Otto Froitzheim	6-1, 6-1, 6-4
1907 [16]	Otto Froitzheim	Anthony Wilding	6-4, 6-2, 6-3
1908 [17]	Otto Froitzheim	Anthony Wilding	6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6
1909	Otto Froitzheim	Josiah Ritchie	6-4, 5-7, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
1910	Heinrich Kleinschroth	Heinrich Schomburgk	5-7, 6-4, 6-0, 6-3
1911	Otto Froitzheim	Heinrich Schomburgk	1-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
1912	Oscar Kreuzer	Gordon Lowe	6-4, 1-6, 3-6, 6-0, 8-6
1913	Otto Froitzheim	Paul Otto Lindpaintner	6-1, 6-2
1914	No competition (partly due to World War I)
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930	Harry Hopman	Christian Boussus	2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 0-6, 6-4
1931	Roderich Menzel	Fritz Kuhlmann Sr	6-1, 6-1, 4-6, 6-0
1932	?	?	?
1933	?	?	?
1934	?	?	?
1935	Werner Menzel	Fritz Kuhlmann Sr	6-1, 6-1, 4-6, 6-0

• 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.

• History of tennis

• https://app.thetennisbase.com/Homburg Cup Roll of Honour