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Derbyshire Championships

The Derbyshire Championships originally known as the Championship of Derbyshire was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament held at the Buxton Lawn Tennis Club, Buxton, Derbyshire, Great Britain from 1883 to 1953.

Derbyshire Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
TourPre open era
Founded1883
Abolished1953
Editions60
LocationBuxton, Derbyshire, Great Britain
VenueBuxton Lawn Tennis Club
SurfaceGrass

History

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A tennis tournament was originally held at Buxton Garden's[1] as early as 1880.[2] By 1883 the club had attracted more players and a men's championships was staged for the first time which was won by Minden Fenwick,[2] he went on to win the New Zealand Championships three times from (1892–1894).[3] In 1884 the owners of the Buxton Gardens, the Buxton Improvements Company, decided to stage a fully open event featuring men's and women's singles, with ladies' and gentlemen's singles played under the title 'Championship of Derbyshire', and a ladies' doubles played with the imposing title of 'The All-England Ladies Doubles'.[2] The inaugural ladies' singles champion was Agnes Noon Watts.[2] This latter championship was the first of its kind, being inaugurated before Wimbledon.[2] In July 1914 the Derby and District Lawn Tennis Association was officially incorporated,[4] this organisation later became known as the Derbyshire Lawn Tennis Association who were responsible for the staging of this event.[5] The championships were not staged during World War I or World War II.[2] It remained a featured tournament in the annual tennis tours. The tournament is still held today as a closed tennis event.

Notable winners of the men's singles included Grainger Chaytor (1892–1894, 1899), Wilberforce Eaves (1904), Laurie Doherty (1909), Adrian Quist (1936) and Franjo Kukuljević (1949). Previous women's singles champions included Louisa Martin (1886), Blanche Bingley Hillyard (1906), Elizabeth Ryan (1921) and Gem Hoahing (1948). The Derbyshire Championships ran until 1953 when it was abolished.[2] The final men's singles champion was Nigel Cockburn from South Africa and the final women's singles title went to Britain's Mary Harris.

Finals

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Men's singles

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Incomplete Roll:[6]
Year Champions Runners-up Score
1883   Minden Fenwick   Robert Parsons Earwaker 6-2, 6-3[6]
1884   Charles Walder Grinstead   Ernest Browne 5-7, 6–2, 6–2, 5–7, 6–4.[6]
1885   Eyre Chatterton   James Dwight 6-2, 6–1, 6–3.[6]
1886   Tom Campion   Percy Bateman Brown 5-7, 6–2, 6–1, 9–7.[6]
1887   Tom Campion (2)   William Drumond Hamilton 6-2, 6–3, 6–4.[6]
1888   Tom Campion (3)   Percy Bateman Brown 7-5, 6–4, 7–5.[6]
1889   Percy Bateman Brown   T.G. Hill 6-2, 6–2, 6–1.[6]
1890   Manliffe Goodbody   Harry Sibthorpe Barlow 6-2, 7–5, 6–3.[6]
1891   Grainger Chaytor   George Ball-Greene 6-1, 6–1, 6–3.[6]
1892   Grainger Chaytor (2)   Tom Chaytor w.o.[6]
1893   Grainger Chaytor (3)   Alfred Ernest Crawley 6-0, 6–2, 6–2.[6]
1894   Grainger Chaytor (4)   Harry Sibthorpe Barlow 6-1, 6–2, 1–0, ret.[6]
1895   Harold Mahony   Grainger Chaytor 6-2, 3–6, 2–6, 7–5, 6–3.[6]
1896   David Davy   J.A. Rooke 6-4, 6–4, 6–4.[6]
1897   Sydney Howard Smith   George Hillyard 6-2, 6–2, 6–2.[6]
1898   Sydney Howard Smith (2)   Grainger Chaytor 6-3, 6–0, 6–2.[6]
1899   Grainger Chaytor (5)  Sydney Howard Smith 6-3, 6–3.[6]
1900   George Hillyard   Frank Riseley 3-6, 6–4, 6–1, 6–4.[6]
1901   Laurie Doherty   George Hillyard 6-4, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2.[6]
1902   George Hillyard (2)   George Ball-Greene 2-6, 6–3, 6–8, 6–3, 6–2.[6]
1903   Xenophon Casdagli   Walter Cecil Crawley 6-3, 7–5.[6]
1904   Wilberforce Eaves   E.V. Jones 6-1, 6–3, 6–4.[6]
1905   Xenophon Casdagli (2)   Ernest Charlton 8-10, 0–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–2.[6]
1906   Roy Allen   John Frederick Stokes 8-6 6–4.[6]
1907   Alfred Leonard Bentley   Geoffrey Blenkinsop Youll 3-6, 6–2, 6–4.[6] bi
1908   Xenophon Casdagli (3)   Arthur Wallis Myers 6-2 4-3 ret.[6]
1909   Roy Allen (2)   Xenophon Casdagli 6-2, 7–5, 7–5.[6]
1910   Charles A. Orpen Tuckey   C. Whitehouse 6-3, 6–3, 6–3.[6]
1915/1918 Not held (due to world war one)
1919   Louis Bosman Raymond   Brian Norton 6-3, 6–3, 6–3.[6]
1920   Alain Gerbault   Roger Worthington 6-3, 6–3, 6–2.[6]
1921   Henry Vere Shirley Dillon   Cecil Campbell 6-4, 6–4, 8–6.[6]
1922   Edward Darcy McCrea   George Fletcher 6-4, 6–4.[6]
1923   Edward Darcy McCrea (2)   José Domingo 6-3, 6–4.[6]
1924   Charles Kingsley   Horace Keats Lester 6-1, 6–4.[6]
1925   Gordon Crole-Rees   George S. Fletcher 6-2, 6–4.[6]
1926   Charles Kingsley (2)   George S. Fletcher 6-2, 3–6, 6–4.[6]
1927   Gordon Crole-Rees (2)   George Golding 2-6, 6–0, 6–1.[6]
1928   Gordon Crole-Rees (3)   Norman Farquharson 3-6, 9–7, 6–1.[6]
1929   Gordon Crole-Rees (4)   Donald Greig 5-7, 6–0, 7–5.[6]
1930   Horace Keats Lester   Eric Conrad Peters 7-5, 6–2.[6]
1931   Vernon Bob Kirby   Frank Wilde 6-2, 6–3.[6]
1932   James Edmett Giesen   Colin Ritchie[7] 6-4, 5–7, 6–4.[6]
1933   Vernon Bob Kirby (2)   Irving Wheatcroft 6-2, 6–2.[6]
1934   Douglas Freshwater   Jimmy Jones 8-6, 3–6, 6–3.[6]
1935   Jimmy Jones   George Lyttleton-Rogers 8-6, 3–6, 6–3.[6]
1936   Adrian Quist   Murray Deloford 6-2, 6–4.[6]
1937   Cristea Caralulis   Ronald Shayes 8-10, 10–8, ret.[6]
1938   Murray Deloford   Jimmy Jones 3-6, 7–5, 6–4.[6]
1939   Don Butler   Alejo Domingo Russell 9-7, 3–6, 6–4.[6]
1940/1945 Not held (due to world war two)
1946   Dennis Slack   C.F. Hall 6-3, 6–2.[6]
1947   Khan-Iftikhar Ahmed   Constantin Tanacescu 4-6, 9–7, 6–3.[6]
1948   Franjo Kukuljević   Matt Murphy 6-1, 6–3.[6]
1949   John Horn   George Godsell 6-3, 6–3.[6]
1950   Geoff Brown   Brian Rooke 6-0, 6–1.[6]
1951   Nigel Cockburn   Andras Kalman 8-6, 6–2.[6]

Women's singles

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Incomplete Roll:
Year Champions Runners-up Score
1884   Agnes Noon Watts   Florence Stanuell 6-3, 6–3, 8–6.
1885   Blanche Bingley   Louisa Martin 6-3, 6–3.
1886   Louisa Martin   May Langrishe 6-3, 6–0.
1887   May Langrishe   Bertha Steedman 6-3, 6–4.
1888   Blanche Bingley Hillyard (2)   May Langrishe 7-5, 6–1.
1889   Bertha Steedman   Louisa Martin 5-7, 6–4, 6–3.
1890   Louisa Martin (2)   Mary Steedman 6-2, 6–4.
1891   May Marriott   Beatrice Wood 6-2, 6–2.
1892   Helen Jackson   Miss Vicars 6-0, 6–1
1893   Blanche Bingley Hillyard (3)   Helen Jackson 6-0, 6–1
1894   Blanche Bingley Hillyard (4)   Charlotte Cooper 6-4, 4–6, 7–5
1895   Helen Jackson (2)   Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6-3, 3–6, 6–3
1896   Blanche Bingley Hillyard (5)   Bertha Steedman 6-4, 3–6, 7–5
1897   Alice Simpson Pickering   Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6-4, 5–7, 6–4
1898   Ruth Dyas   Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6-2, 6–4
1899   Muriel Robb   Blanche Bingley Hillyard 6-3, 6–3
1900   Muriel Robb (2)   Blanche Bingley Hillyard 7-5, 6–3
1901   Blanche Bingley Hillyard (6)   Alice Simpson Pickering 6-2, 7–5
1903   Dorothea Douglass   Ethel Thomson 6-2, 6–1
1904   Dorothea Douglass (2)   Ethel Thomson 6-2, 4–6, 6–3
1905   Connie Wilson   Dorothea Douglass 4-6, 6–1, 7–5
1906   Blanche Bingley Hillyard (7)   Connie Meyer 6-4, 6–3
1907   Maude Garfit   Connie Meyer 3-6, 6–3, 6–4
1908   Charlotte Cooper Sterry   Maude Garfit 6-2, 6–2
1909   Maude Garfit (2)   Helen Aitchison 2-6, 6–2, 6–2
1910   Maude Garfit (3)   Helen Aitchison w.o.
1911   Ethel Thomson Larcombe   Helen Aitchison 6-3, 6–1
1912   Ethel Thomson Larcombe (2)   Hilda Lane 6-0, 6–1
1913   Ethel Thomson Larcombe (3)   Winifred Longhurst 6-2, 6–1
1915/1918 Not held (due to world war one)
1919   Elizabeth Ryan   Ethel Thomson Larcombe 3-6, 6–4, 7–5
1920   Elizabeth Ryan (2)   Ethel Tanner 6-1, 6–2
1921   Elizabeth Ryan (3)   M. Wright 6-0 6–1
1922   Kathleen McKane   Irene Bowder Peacock divided title
1923   Blanche Duddell Colston   Phylis Radcliffe 6-0, 6–4
1924   Joan Fry   Kathleen McKane 6-4, 3-4 retd
1939/1945 Not held (due to world war two)
1950   Doreen Wedderburn   Gladys Southwell Lines 6-0, 6–8, 6–4
1951   Billie Woodgate   Gladys Southwell Lines 6-0, 6–8, 6–4
1952   Billie Woodgate (2)   Beryl Penrose divided title
1953   Mary Harris   Rosemary Walsh 7-5, 5–7, 6–2

Statistics

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Mens singles

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Most titles   Grainger Chaytor 4
  Gordon Crole-Rees
Most consecutive titles   Grainger Chaytor
(1890–1894)
 4

Women's singles

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Most titles   Blanche Bingley Hillyard 7
Most consecutive finals   Ethel Thomson Larcombe
(1911–1913)
 3
  Elizabeth Ryan
(1919–1921)

References

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  1. ^ Lake, Robert (2015). A social history of tennis in Britain. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 48. ISBN 9781134445578.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "History of tennis in Buxton". www.buxtontennisclub.co.uk. Buxton Tennis Club. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Tennis New Zealand 2012: Chapter: National Championships" (PDF). Tennis Kiwi. Tennis New Zealand. p. 13. Retrieved 4 October 2022. Chapter: National Championships
  4. ^ "Derbyshire Lawn Tennis Association". Derbyshire Tennis Association. LTA. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  5. ^ Derbyshire Lawn Tennis Association
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Source: https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/Buxton-Derbyshire Championships. Search tournament by name. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.
  7. ^ "Colin Ritchie - Overview - ATP Tour". ATP Tour. ATP. Retrieved 27 March 2023.

Sources

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  • "Derbyshire Lawn Tennis Association". Derbyshire Tennis Association. LTA.
  • The History of Tennis in Buxton, Buxton Tennis Club. Buxton. England http://www.buxtontennisclub.co.uk/history.
  • Lake, Robert (2015). A social history of tennis in Britain. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9781134445578.
  • "Tennis New Zealand 2012: Chapter: National Championships" (PDF). Tennis Kiwi. Tennis New Zealand. Retrieved 4 October 2022. Chapter: National Championships
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