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Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Championships

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Yorkshire Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
TourNLTA (1884-1910)
Founded1884; 140 years ago (1884)
Abolished1970; 54 years ago (1970)
LocationHarrogate
Hull
Ilkley
Leeds
Scarborough
Sheffield
Whitby
SurfaceGrass

The Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Championships[1] or simply known as the Yorkshire Championships was a combined men's and women's open grass court tennis tournament established in 1884 as the Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Tournament[2] then later Yorkshire Association and County Open Tournament and ran till 1970. It was first held in Ilkley, then, Harrogate, then Whitby before moving permanently to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England.

History

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The first Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Tournament was established in 1885 and played at Ilkley, Yorkshire, England. In 1887 the event was renamed as Yorkshire Association and County Open Tournament. In 1889 the name was changed again the Yorkshire Open Championships.[3] In 1906 the event was moved permanently to Scarborough, North Yorkshire.[4] The championships were held as part of the worldwide tennis circuit until 1970. The event is still being held as late as 2017 as the Yorkshire Tennis County Championships.[5]

For the years 1892, 1894–1900 and 1904–1905 the tournament was also valid as the North of England Championships.

Locations

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The championships have been staged in the following towns and cities Harrogate, Hull, Ilkley, Leeds, Scarborough, Sheffield and Whitby

Finals

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Men's singles

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(Incomplete roll)[6]

Year Champion Runner-up Score
Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Tournament
1884 Ireland Ernest Browne England Marmaduke Constable 6-1, ret.
1885 United Kingdom Gilbert Mahon England E.W. Fletcher 6-0, 6–2, 6-4
1886 Ireland Ernest Browne United Kingdom Gilbert Mahon 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
Yorkshire Association and County Open Tournament
1887 England E.W. Fletcher England Arthur Godfrey Pease 6-2, 6-2, 7-5
1888 England Arthur Godfrey Pease England E.W. Fletcher 5-7, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
Yorkshire Open Championships
1889 United Kingdom David Davy England Arthur Godfrey Pease w.o.
1890 Ireland Joshua Pim Ireland Grainger Chaytor 6-2, 6-0 ret.
1891 Ireland Joshua Pim (2) United Kingdom James Baldwin 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5
1892 Ireland Joshua Pim (3) United Kingdom David Davy 6-1, 6-4, 3-1, ret.
1893 Ireland Joshua Pim (4) Ireland George Ball-Greene[7] 6-4, 9-7, 6-4
1894 United Kingdom Roy Allen Ireland Joshua Pim w.o.
1895 Ireland Grainger Chaytor United Kingdom Harold Nisbet 7-9, 4-6, 6-4, 9-7, 6-1
1898 Ireland Grainger Chaytor (2) United Kingdom Ernest Douglas Black 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3
Yorkshire Championships
1900 Ireland Grainger Chaytor (3) United Kingdom Charles William Wade 6-2, 6-2, 6-3
1901 United Kingdom Laurie Doherty United Kingdom Ernest Douglas Black 6-2, 6-1, 6-1
1905 United Kingdom Roy Allen (2) United Kingdom Charles Gladstone Allen w.o.
1907 United Kingdom Edgar Middleton United Kingdom Ernest Watson 6-3, 3-6, 6-8, 6-0, 6-4
1908 United Kingdom Ernest Watson United Kingdom John Francis Moss 6-2, 6-3, 6-2
1909 United Kingdom Sidney Watson United Kingdom Edgar Middleton 6-4, 6-3, 6-1
1910 United Kingdom Sidney Watson (2) United Kingdom Edgar Middleton 0-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1

Women's singles

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(Incomplete roll)

Year Champion Runner-up Score
Yorkshire Lawn Tennis Tournament
1884 United Kingdom Constance Hodgson England Beatrice Wood 7-5, 6-3
1885 England Mabel Boulton England Beatrice Wood 6-2, 6-2
1886 United Kingdom Margaret Bracewell England Mabel Boulton 5-7, 8-6, 3-0 retd.
Yorkshire Association and County Open Tournament
1887 United Kingdom Margaret Bracewell (2) United Kingdom Ethel Atkinson 4-6, 6-2, 6-0
Yorkshire Association County Closed Tournament
1887 England Beatrice Wood England Mabel Boulton 7-5, 5-7, 6-0
Yorkshire Association and County Open Tournament
1888 England Mabel Boulton (2) United Kingdom Margaret Bracewell 6-4,8-6, 6-3
1889 England Mabel Boulton (3) United Kingdom Miss Crossley 2–6, 6–2, 7–5
1890 England Beatrice Wood (2) England Jane Corder 6–2, 6–1
Yorkshire Open Championships
1892 United Kingdom Helen Jackson United Kingdom Beatrice Wood Draffen 6-0, ?,
1894 United Kingdom Beatrice Wood Draffen (3) United Kingdom Katherine Grey 6-3, 6-1
1895 United Kingdom Lucy Kendal United Kingdom Marion Crosby Morton 6-2, 6-1
1896 United Kingdom Lucy Kendal (2) United Kingdom Beatrice Wood Draffen ?
1897 United Kingdom Lucy Kendal (3) United Kingdom Muriel Robb 6-3, 6-0
1898 United Kingdom Katherine Grey United Kingdom Alice Simpson Pickering 6-4, 6-4
1899 United Kingdom Alice Simpson Pickering United Kingdom Bertha Holder 6-1, 6-4
Yorkshire Championships
1900 United Kingdom Alice Simpson Pickering (2) United Kingdom Ethel Jessop 6-0, 6-2
1904 United Kingdom Lucy Kendal (4) United Kingdom Gladys Eastlake-Smith 6-0, 4-6, 6-4
1905 United Kingdom Bertha Holder United Kingdom N. Morton 11-9, 6-1

References

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  1. ^ "Yorkshire lawn tennis championships". Halifax Evening Courier. Yorkshire, England: British Newspaper Archive. 12 August 1953. p. 3. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  2. ^ "YORKSHIRE LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION TOURNAMENT". Yorkshire Gazette. Yorkshire, England: British Newspaper Archive. 22 August 1885. p. 5. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  3. ^ "THE YORKSHIRE TOURNAMENT AT ILKLEY. THE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Mr. Joshua Pim, the holder of the Irish and Northern Championships, wins the Yorkshire Open Championship for the fifth time consecutively". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. Yorkshire, England: British Newspaper Archive. 26 June 1893. p. 8. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Nostalgia: Scarborough cricket ground and tennis courts". The Scarborough News. Scarborough, England: Johnston Press PLC. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Yorkshire Tennis County Championships - LTA". www3.lta.org.uk. Leeds, West Yorkshire: Yorkshire LTA. 2017.
  6. ^ "Tournament – Yorkshire Championships". www.tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  7. ^ Brown, Val (26 September 2017). Toupie Lowther: Her life. Market Harborough: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-78803-523-1.