St George's Hill Open

St George's Hill Open
Defunct tennis tournament
TourMen's Amateur Tour (1877-1912)
Women Amateur Tour (1877-1912)
ILTF Men's Amateur Tour (1913-1967)
ILTF Women's Amateur Tour (1913-1967)
Founded1881
Abolished1966
LocationSt Georges Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, England.
SurfaceGrass

The St George's Hill Open[1] tournament was founded as the St George's Hill Tournament a men's grass court tennis tournament staged at St Georges Hill Weybridge, Surrey, England in 1881, that ran until 1883, and was not held again.[2][3] In 1913 the St Georges Hill Lawn Tennis Club was established.[4] In 1922 St Georges Hill LTC started a combined men's and women's tournament the St George's Hill Open this ran as a senior tennis tour event until 1966.

  1. ^ American Lawn Tennis: Miss Marble in England. New York: American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company. 20 June 1937. p. 17.
  2. ^ Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Tournament:https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/?St. Georges Hill.. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.
  3. ^ Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. George Routledge and Sons. London. England. pp.113-117.
  4. ^ "A history of the Hill – the origins of top-class tennis in Weybridge • St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club". stghltc.co.uk. St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2022.