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The Bad Neuenahr International or Internationale Bad Neuenahr was a combined tennis tournament founded in 1909 as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler International. It was held at HTC Bad Neuenahr, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was discontinued in 1978.

History

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town in the German Bundesland of the Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district.

In 1882 a spa was first established in the town at Wiesenallee. Then two new lawn tennis courts were built, later further two tennis courts were built at the Kurhaus. By the early 1890s visiting wealthy spa guests and locals began to play against each other on these courts. In 1900 in order to promote tennis responsibility for staging events was down to the spa administrators.

In 1909 the first international open tennis tournaments were held and continued until 1911. The foreign participants were usually bathers taking a cure in the spa's. In 1912 the spa administration donated a "gold cup" that attracted good players from all over Europe to Neuenahr, known as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Gold Cup awarded to winners of the men's singles event in the international tournament. The first winner was the Belgian champion Louis Jacques Émile Trasenster. In 1920 the Hockey Tennis Club Bad Neuenahr was opened, with 14 new clay courts and the event transferred there. In 1921 the spa administration transferred the event to HTC Bad Neuenahr. The tournament was staged annually until 1978.

Finals

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1912	Louis Trasenster	Claus Herberg	6–3, 6–3, 6–1.
1913	Claus Herberg	Wilhelm Gisbert Groos	6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1915/1919	Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1920	Dr. A. Marcotty	?	?
1921	Ernst Büchting	?	?
1922	Frans Ludwig Hoppe	Ernst Büchting	?
1924	Heinz C. Landmann	Fritz Kuhlmann	?
1925	Conrad Kupsch	Fritz Kuhlmann	6–2, 11–9, 5–7, 6–2
1926	Erwin Statz	Herr Claus	6–0, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
1927	Cornelis Albert Bryan	Otto Froitzheim	8–6 4–6 3–6 ret.
1928	Fritz Kuhlmann	Jacques Bonte	6–3, 4–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
1929	Jacques Boussus	Yoshiro Ota	6–4, 6–4, 7–5
1930	Eberhard Nourney	Ludmar Heitmann	6–2, 6–4, 6–2
1931	Eberhard Nourney (2)	Heinz Remmert	5–7, 6–1, 6–1, 6–0
1932	C.Rudolf Strauss	Karl Heinz Kretzer	8–6, 1–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–1
1933	Helmut Sindern	Josef Hirtz	7–5, 0–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5
1934	Eberhard Nourney (3)	Erwin Statz	2–0, ret.
1935	Eberhard Nourney (4)	Edgar Dettmer	7-5, 7-5, 6-0
1936	Fritz Kuhlmann	Edgar Dettmer	2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3, 6–0
1937	Edmund Bartkowiak	Harald Richter	6–1, 6–2, 6–0
1938	Edmund Bartkowiak (2)	Ludmar Heitmann	6–2, 6–1, 6–1
1939	Helmut Gulcz	Ernst Buchholz	6–1, 4–6, 6–1, 9–7
1940-48	Not held (due to World War II)
1949	Engelbert Koch	Ernst Buchholz	6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1950	Ernst Buchholz	Dilip Bose	13–11, 6–3, 6–3
1951	Wladyslaw Skonecki	Ernst Buchholz	4–6, 6–1, ret.
1952	Tony Mottram	Ian Ayre	6–0, 6–3, 6–1
1953	Gottfried von Cramm	Ernst Buchholz	4–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–3
1954	Tony Mottram (2)	Ernst Buchholz	7–5, 6–0
1955	Hugh Stewart	Malcolm Fox	6–2, 6–2
1956	Gordon Forbes	Ladislav Legenstein	3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 8–6
1957	Jaroslav Drobný	Pierre Darmon	6–1, 6–8, 6–4
1958	Ramanathan Krishnan	Carlos Fernandes	3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
1959	Patricio Rodriguez	Ernst Buchholz	6–2, 7–5, 6–3
1960	Peter Scholl	Carlos Fernandes	4–6, 6–2, 6–1
1961	Rod Laver	Luis Ayala	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
1962	Neale Fraser	Ingo Buding	6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1963	István Gulyás	Martin Mulligan	6–3, 4–6, 9–7, 6–0
1964	José Edison Mandarino	Boro Jovanović	6–1, 8–6, 6–4
1965	Attila Korpás	Lothar Pawlik	4–6, 8–6, 6–4
1966	Attila Korpás (2)	Horst Guenther Klameth	6–2, 8–6, 6–0
1967	Wilhelm Bungert	Harald Elschenbroich	2–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–4
1968	Koji Watanabe	István Gulyás	6–4, 6–8, 6–4
↓  Open era  ↓
1969	Martin Mulligan	Wilhelm Bungert	6–3, 3–6, 13–11, 6–2
↓  ILTF Independent Circuit  ↓
1970	Attila Korpás (3)	István Gulyás	?
1971	Christian Kuhnke	Attila Korpás	7–5, 6–1, 8–10, 6–2
1972	Karl Meiler	Attila Korpás	6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1973	Alex Kurucz	Hans-Joachim Plötz	shared title
1974	Harald Elschenbroich	Jan Kukal	5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 7–6
1975	Szabolcs Baranyi	Jan Kukal	6–4, 2–0, ret.
1976	Peter Elter	Werner Zirngibl	6–1, 1–0, ret.
1977	Patrick Proisy	Jürgen Fassbender	6–3, 6–1
1978	Jürgen Fassbender	Buster Mottram	6–3, 6–4, 1–6, 6–7, 2–1, retd.

Women' singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1911	Baroness Hedwig Loë	Baroness Grete Loë	8–6, 4–6, 7–5
1912	G. Schell	M. Kaubes	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1915/1919	Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1924	Fräulein Lutzmann	Frau Suschen Rütten	6–4, 6–3, 6–3
1925	Fräulein Lutzmann (2)	Lidda Neumerkel	3–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–2
1926	Fräulein Lutzmann (3)	Frau Suschen Rütten	6-1, 6-1, 6-3
1928	Madzy Rollin Couquerque	Margaretha Canters	5–7. 6–1 abandoned
1929	Ilse Friedleben	Hilde Krahwinkel	6–0, 6–0
1931	Ilse Friedleben (2)	Klara Hammer	4–6, 6–3, 6–1
1935	Lisa Fabian	Erna Reimann	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
1936	Lisa Fabian	Ingeborg Schumann	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1937	Margarathe Käppel	Irmgard Rost	6–3, 6–0
1938	Fräulein ten Elsen	Fräulein Rduch	8–6, 6–6, retd
1940-48	Not held (due to World War II)
1952	Joy Gannon Mottram	Beryl Penrose	6–1, 6–2
1953	Joy Gannon Mottram (2)	Helena Matouš	6–1, 6–3
1954	Joy Gannon Mottram (3)	Edda Buding	6–2, 6–1
1957	Angela Mortimer	Patricia Ward	6-1 8-6
1958	Ilse Buding	Rita Bentley	6–4, 6–4
1959	Patricia Ward	Norma Baylon	4–6, 7–5, 7–5
1961	Sandra Reynolds	Renée Schuurman	6–3, 6–1
1962	Renée Schuurman	Heide Schildknecht	6–2, 6–1
1964	Elizabeth Starkie	Faye Toyne	6–1, 6–2
1967	Helga Schultze	Susanne Korpas	6–2, 6–1
↓  Open era  ↓
1969	Helga Schultze-Hosl (2)	Helga Niessen	5–7, 7–5, 6–4

References

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• Defunct tennis tournaments in Germany