Surrey Grass Court Championships

Surrey Grass Court Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name	Surrey Championship (1927–67) Surrey Grass Court Championships (1968–80, 1997)
Tour	Grand Prix circuit (1968–1975, 1979–1980)
Founded	1900
Abolished	1980
Surface	Grass court (1927–1980)

The Surrey Grass Court Championships is a defunct tennis tournament played in Surbiton, England. The event was played as part of the Grand Prix Tour in 1974 and from 1979 to 1980. It was played on outdoor grass courts. It was first played in 1900 under the name of the Surrey Championships and was an amateur tournament until the open era of tennis. A women's tournament was added in 1960 and ended in 1981. The men's championships moved to a northern venue in 1981, in 1997 the championships were brought back, Jason Stoltenberg won the tournament and on the final day a host of exhibitions took place.^[1] In 1998 the championships were graced by a reintroduction of a women's tournament and were renamed the Surbiton Trophy. During the 1975 Championships the tournament witnessed the longest single game in tennis history, during a match between Keith Glass and Anthony Fawcett. No one timed the game but it had 37 deuces.^{[lower-alpha 1][2]}

Champions

Men's Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1902	Josiah Ritchie	Charles Martin	6-1, 6-1
1903	Josiah Ritchie	Brame Hillyard	6-1, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4
1904	Sidney H. Smith	Josiah Ritchie	6–3, 6–3, 6–3
1905	Sidney H. Smith	Edward R. Allen	6-2, 6-3, 6-1
1906	Sidney H. Smith	Anthony Wilding	walkover
1907	Arthur Gore	Josiah Ritchie	6–3, 6–2, 6–3
1908	Josiah Ritchie	Arthur Gore	6–3, 6–4, 6–2
1909	Josiah Ritchie	Charles Dixon	4–6, 6–2, 6–4, 0–6, 6–4
1910	Josiah Ritchie	Robert Powell	6–3, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3
1911	Charles Dixon	Anthony Wilding	7–5, 3–6, 6–0, 6–1
1912	Charles Dixon	Josiah Ritchie	6–2, 6–2, 6–3
1913	Charles Dixon	Theodore Mavrogordato	6–2, 8–6, 6–3
1914	Norman Brookes	Francis Gordon Lowe	6–1, 6–1, 5–7, 6–8, 6–3
1915–1918	Not Held – WWI
1919	Gerald Patterson	Herbert Roper Barrett	6–2, 6–3, 6–2
1920	Francis Fisher	Theodore Mavrogordato	6–4, 6–4, 6–1
1921	Brian Norton	Sydney M. Jacob	6–2 6–2 6–3
1922	Brian Norton	Randolph Lycett	9–7, 7–5, 1–6, 6–1
1923	Randolph Lycett	Brian Norton	3–6 6–4 6–1 2–6 7–5
1924	Jack Hillyard	Henry Mayes	6–4, 1–6, 10–12, 6–3, 6–2
1925	Gordon Crole Rees	Athar-Ali Fyzee	3–6, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2, 6–4
1926	Charles Kingsley	Gordon Crole Rees	6–4, 6–2 ret.
1927	Gordon Crole Rees	Nigel Sharpe	6–1, 6–0
1928	Henry Mayes	Patrick Spence	6–2, 6–4
1929	Eric Peters	Oswald Turnbull	3–6, 6–1, 6–1, 6–3
1930	Yoshiro Ohta	Fred Perry	6–1, 4–6, 6–3
1931	Iwao Aoki Harry Lee		Title shared
1932	Nigel Sharpe	Iwao Aoki	7–5, 6–3
1933	David David H. Williams		Title shared
1934	Jiro Yamagishi	Hideo Nishimura	6–3, 6–3
1935	Eskell D. Andrews	Patrick Spence	6–2, 6–3
1936	Cam Malfroy	Harry Lee	6–2, 9–11, 6–0
1937	Robert Tinkler	Pat Sherwood	9–7, 6–3
1938	John Olliff	Eric Filby	2–6, 6–4, 6–3
1939	Kho Sin-Kie	Jack Deloford	6–2, 6–4
1940–1945	Not Held – WWII
1946	Hans van Swol	David Butler	4–6, 6–4, 7–5
1947	Claude F.O. Lister	Marcel Coen	7–5, 6–2
1948	John Bromwich Geoffrey Paish		Title shared
1949	Czesław Spychała	Geoffrey Paish	6–3, 6–0
1950	Narendra Nath	Czesław Spychała	6–2, 6–4
1951	Czesław Spychała	David A. Samaai	1–6, 7–5, 6–3
1952	Ian Ayre	Bryan Woodroffe	6–4, 6–2
1953	George Worthington	Roger Becker	6–3, 6–1
1954	John Barry Abe Segal		Title shared
1955	Malcolm Anderson	Ramanathan Krishnan	6–3, 6–4
1956	Ian Vermaak	Gordon Forbes	6–4, 6–3
1957	Roger Becker	Alan Mills	7–9, 6–2, 6–3
1958	Roger Becker	Mike Davies	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
1959	Mike Davies	Warren Jacques	7–9, 6–2, 6–4, 6–3
1960	Roger Becker	Keith Diepraam	6–4, 6–1
1961	Martin Mulligan	Warren Jacques	9–7, 6–2
1962	Martin Mulligan	Mark Otway	6–3, 6–4
1963	Roger Taylor	Jaidip Mukerjea	10–8, 9–11, 10–8
1964	David Philips	Bob Carmichael	2–6, 6–4, 8–6
1965	Jan-Erik Lundquist	Roger Taylor	9–7, 6–3
1966	Keith Wooldridge	Peter Curtis	7–5, 6–4
1967	Roger Taylor	Bobby Wilson	2–6, 6–4, 6–2
1968	Keith Wooldridge	Ken Fletcher	3–6, 6–3, 7–5
1969	Gerald Battrick	John Cooper	6–2, 6–1
1970	Robert Maud	Frew McMillan	6–4, 6–3
1971	Anand Amritraj	Paul Hutchins	6–2, 6–2
1972	Premjit Lall	Ross Case	6–4, 8–6
1973	Owen Davidson	Tony Roche	4–6, 6–4, 10–8
1974	Bob Giltinan	Syd Ball	6–3, 6–2
1975	Peter McNamara	Steve Docherty	4–6, 9–8, 6–4
1976–1978	Not Held
1979	Victor Amaya	Mark Edmondson	6–4, 7–5
1980	Brian Gottfried	Sandy Mayer	6–3, 6–3

Men's Doubles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1927 – 1978	Unavailable
1979	Tim Gullikson Tom Gullikson	Pat Du Pré Marty Riessen	6–3, 6–7, 8–6
1980	Mark Edmondson Kim Warwick	Andrew Pattison Butch Walts	7–6, 6–7, 6–7, 7–6, 15–13

Women's Singles

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
1960	Angela Mortimer	Christine Truman	3–6, 6–4, 9–7
1961	Deidre Catt	Edda Buding	5–7, 6–3, 7–5
1962	Angela Mortimer	Carole Caldwell Graebner	6–4, 6–4
1963	Deidre Catt	Darlene Hard	1–6, 9–7, 8–6
1964	Ann Haydon Jones	Carole Caldwell Graebner	6–3, 6–1
1965	Christine Truman	Rita Bentley	7–5, 6–1
1966	Winnie Shaw	Mary-Ann Eisel	6–4, 4–6, 6–3
1967	Lynn Abbes	Robin Blakelock-Lloyd	6–4, 6–3
1968	Judy Tegart-Dalton	Christine Truman	10–8, 6–4
1969	Mary-Ann Eisel	Judy Tegart-Dalton	4–6, 6–4, 8–6
1970	Ann Haydon Jones	Patti Hogan	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
1971	Judy Tegart-Dalton	Joyce Barclay-Williams-Hume	9–8, 6–2
1972	Joyce Barclay-Williams-Hume	Patti Hogan	6–4, 6–3
1973	Wendy Turnbull	Ann Kiyomura	6–2, 6–0
1974	Sue Barker	Sue Mappin	6–2, 7–5
1975	Greer Stevens	Patti Hogan	6–1, 6–4
1976	Not Held
1977	Winnie Shaw	Gwen Sammel	6–3, 7–6
1978	Evonne Goolagong Cawley	Winnie Shaw	6–1, 6–1
1979	Cyntia Doerner-Seiler	Kym Ruddell	6–1, 6–2
1980	Not Held
1981	Betsy Nagelsen	Barbara Hallquist	6–4, 3–6, 6–3

Notes

1. According to Bud Collins the game lasted 31 minutes.

References

1. "The Surbiton road to Wimbledon". Independent. 6 June 1997. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
2. Keith Glass (29 May 2010). "The longest game of tennis". Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2010.