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County Kildare Open Tennis Championship
Tournament information
Founded	1881; 143 years ago (1881)
Editions	140 (2018)
Location	Naas County Kildare Republic of Ireland
Venue	Naas Tennis Club
Surface	Artificial Grass, outdoors
Website	http://www.lltc.ie/history/south of ireland championships
Current champions
Men's singles	James Halas

The County Kildare Open Tennis Championship, originally known as the County Kildare Tennis Tournament (1879–1880), then County Kildare Championship, is grass court tennis tournament held initially at Naas, County Kildare, in Ireland, established on 2 August 1881.

History

A County Kildare tennis tournament was first staged in 1879 at the Naas military barracks under the title the County Kildare Tournament. and was a It was a featured event of 1879 Men's Tennis tour and 1880 Men's Tennis tour. On 2 August 1880, a Colonel de Burgh called for a meeting of members of the Naas and Country Kildare Cricket club to discuss forming a country club for the purpose of providing archery, cricket, football, lawn tennis, polo, and pigeon shooting for local town residents.

On 1 January 1881 the County Kildare Club was formally established (later changed to Naas Lawn Tennis Club). In August 1881 the County Kildare Open Tennis Championships came into existence. In 1939 the event was won by Irish Davies Cup player George McVeagh. This tournament is still being staged today.

Champions

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) in some tournaments not all.

Men's singles

Included:

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1879	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	James G. Kennedy	4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
1880	Joseph R. Rainsford	Jacob R. Sherrard	?
1881	Peter Aungier	W.A. Cairnes	?
1882	Peter Aungier	John William Young	6–1, 6–4, 6–3
1883	Peter Aungier	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	6–0, 6–3, 6–2
1884	Peter Aungier	Thomas Harrison Griffiths	6–3, 3–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4
1887	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	Cecil J. Cramer-Roberts	6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 6–0
1889	C. Johnson	Richard J. Hornidge	6–2, 6–4, 6–1
1939	George McVeagh	George McVeagh	?

Notes

1. 1879 edition held from 27 July to 2 August
2. 1880 edition held from 28–31 July
3. 1881 edition held from 2–6 August
4. 1882 edition held from 25–29 July
5. 1883 edition held from 24 July end date no stated
6. 1884 edition held from 29 July to 2 August
7. 1887 edition held in July 1887
8. 1890 edition held in August 1890

References

1. Routledges Sporting Annual (1882) Lawn Tennis in 1881. George Routledge and Son. London. p.71.
2. ^ Nieuwland, Alex (2017). "Tournament – County Kildare Tournament". Tennis Archives. Harlingen, Netherlands: Idzznew BV. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
3. "History – Naas LTC". Naas LTC. Naas, County Kildare, Ireland: Naas Lawn Tennis Club. 2017. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
4. "Naas Chronology 134 AD – 1900 – Kildare Local History . ie". kildarelocalhistory.ie. Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups. 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
5. Naas Lawn Tennis Club
6. Naas Lawn Tennis Club
7. Lyons, Mary Rose. "Naas LTC - a short history by Mary Rose Lyons". Naas LTC. Naas Lawn Tennis Club. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
8. Naas Lawn Tennis Club
9. "Abolition of Challenge Rounds". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. EVENING POST, VOLUME CIII, ISSUE 65, 20 March 1922. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
10. Nieuwland, Alex. "Edition – County Kildare Tournament 1879". www.tennisarchives.com. Idzznew BV. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
11. Gray, John (July 1880). "Sporting Events". The Freeman's Journal. Dublin, Ireland.
12. Routledges Sporting Annual (1882) Lawn Tennis in 1881
13. Gray, John (August 1881). "Sporting Events". The Freeman's Journal. Dublin, Ireland.
14. Routledges Sporting Annual (1883) Lawn Tennis Principle Meetings of 1882: . George Routledge and Son. London. p.116.
15. The Field Lawn Tennis Annual 1890
16. Gray, John (August 1884). "Sporting Events". The Freeman's Journal. Dublin, Ireland.
17. "Tennis Events". The Irish Times. Dublin, Ireland. July 1887.
18. Naas Lawn Tennis Club

Sources

• Abolition of Challenge Rounds". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. EVENING POST, VOLUME CIII, ISSUE 65, 20 March 1922.
• Gray, John (1880–1881). "Sporting Events". The Freeman's Journal. Dublin, Ireland.
• Irish Times, The. (1887). "Tennis Events" Dublin, Ireland.
• "History – Naas LTC" (2017). Naas LTC. Naas, County Kildare, Ireland: Naas Lawn Tennis Club.
• "Naas Chronology 134 AD – 1900 – Kildare Local History . ie". kildarelocalhistory.i.e. Co. Kildare Federation of Local History Groups. 2017.
• Nieuwland, Alex (2017). "Tournament – County Kildare Tournament". www.tennisarchives.com. Harlingen, Netherlands: Idzznew BV.
• Routledges Sporting Annual (1882) Lawn Tennis in 1881. George Routledge and Son. London.
• Routledges Sporting Annual (1883) Lawn Tennis Principle Meetings of 1882. George Routledge and Son. London.

Further reading

• Ayre's Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, 1908 to 1938, A. Wallis Myers.
• British Lawn Tennis and Squash Magazine, 1948 to 1967, British Lawn Tennis Ltd, UK.
• Dunlop Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, G.P. Hughes, 1939 to 1958, Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd, UK
• Lawn tennis and Badminton Magazine, 1906 to 1973, UK.
• Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annuals and Compendia, Lowe, Sir F. Gordon, Eyre & Spottiswoode
• Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annuals from 1885 to 1922, American Sports Pub. Co, USA.
• The World of Tennis Annuals, Barrett John, 1970 to 2001.

External links

• http://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/county kildare

• Grass court tennis tournaments
• Tennis tournaments in Ireland
• 1880 establishments in Ireland
• Recurring sporting events established in 1880