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Baden Baden International

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

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.

History

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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

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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

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(Incomplete roll)

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

Women's singles

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(incomplete roll)

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

See also

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Notes

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  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

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  • 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.
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