World Hard Court Championships
World Hard Court Championships |
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Defunct tennis tournament |
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Founded |
1912 |
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Abolished |
1923 |
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Editions |
7 |
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Location |
Paris, France (1912–1921) Brussels, Belgium (1922) Paris, France (1923) |
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Surface |
Clay / Outdoor |
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World Hard Court Championships (WHCC) was an annual tennis tournament held from 1912 to 1923, principally in Paris, France. The venue was the clay courts of the Stade Français in Saint-Cloud, Paris, with one exception, when they were held at the Royal Leopold Club in Brussels, Belgium, in 1922. This tournament was open to all international amateur tennis players and was part of a series of world championships being advanced by the ILTF as Majors, the others being the World Grass Court Championships (Wimbledon) and the World Covered Court Championships (held in a variety of countries). The US Championships was not part of this series, even though it was regarded as a significant event.
The WHCC was open to all nationalities, unlike the French Championships, which were open only to tennis players who were members of clubs in France through 1924; because of this the WHCC is sometimes considered as the precursor to the French Open.[1] The French Championships were also held at a different venue at the time, the Racing Club de France, Paris.
The WHCC was not played in 1924, when Paris hosted the Olympic Games, with its tennis tournament taking the place of the championship. In 1925 the tournament was disbanded when the French Championships opened to international competitors with the event held on a clay surface alternately between the Stade Français (1925, 1927), which was the site of the WHCC, and the Racing Club de France (1926), which was the site of the previous French Championship.[2] From 1928, the French Championships have been held at Stade Roland Garros.
Anthony Wilding was the only male multiple champion in the singles event, winning the title in 1913 and 1914, while Suzanne Lenglen won the women's singles title four times (1914, 1921–23).[3]
Champions
Men's Singles
Year |
Champion |
Runner-up |
Score |
Venue |
1912 | Otto Froitzheim | Oskar Kreuzer | 6–2, 7–5, 4–6, 7–5 | Stade Français, Paris |
1913 | Anthony Wilding | André Gobert | 6–3, 6–3, 1–6, 6–4 | Stade Français |
1914 | Anthony Wilding | Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten | 6–0, 6–2, 6–4 | Stade Français |
1915–19 | not held – World War I |
1920 | William Laurentz | André Gobert | 9–7, 6–2, 3–6, 6–2 | Stade Français |
1921 | Bill Tilden | Jean Washer | 6–3, 6–3, 6–3 | Stade Français |
1922 | Henri Cochet | Count de Gomar | 6–0, 2–6, 4–6, 6–1, 6–2 | Royal Leopold Club, Brussels |
1923 | Bill Johnston | Jean Washer | 4–6, 6–2, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3 | Stade Français |
1924 | not held – Olympics |
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Women's Singles
Year |
Champion |
Runner-up |
Score |
Venue |
1912 | Marguerite Brocquedis | Mieken Rieck | 6–3, 0–6, 6–4 | Stade Français, Paris |
1913 | Mieken Rieck | Marguerite Brocquedis | 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 | Stade Français |
1914 | Suzanne Lenglen | Germaine Golding | 6–2, 6–1 | Stade Français |
1915–19 | not held – World War I |
1920 | Edith Dorothy Holman | Francisca Subirana | 6–0, 7–5 | Stade Français |
1921 | Suzanne Lenglen | Molla Mallory | 6–2, 6–3 | Stade Français |
1922 | Suzanne Lenglen | Elizabeth Ryan | 6–3, 6–2 | Royal Leopold Club, Brussels |
1923 | Suzanne Lenglen | Kathleen McKane | 6–3, 6–3 | Stade Français |
1924 | not held – Olympics |
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Men's Doubles
Year |
Champion |
Runner-up |
Score |
Venue |
1912 | Otto Froitzheim
Oskar Kreuzer | Charles Winslow
Harold Kitson | 4–6, 6–2, 6–1, 6–3 | Stade Français, Paris |
1913 | Heinrich Kleinschroth
Moritz von Bissing | Otto Froitzheim
Anthony Wilding | 7–5, 0–6, 6–3, 8–6 | Stade Français |
1914 | Max Decugis
Maurice Germot | Arthur Gore
Algernon Kingscote | 6–1, 11–9, 6–8, 6–2 | Stade Français |
1915–19 | not held – World War I |
1920 | André Gobert
William Laurentz | Nicolae Mişu
Cecil Blackbeard | 6–4, 6–2, 6–1 | Stade Français |
1921 | André Gobert
William Laurentz | Alain Gerbault
Pierre Albaran | 6–4, 6–2, 6–8, 6–2 | Stade Français |
1922 | Jean Borotra
Henri Cochet | Nicolae Mişu Marcel Dupont | 6–8, 6–1, 6–2, 6–3 | Royal Leopold Club, Brussels |
1923 | Jacques Brugnon
Marcel Dupont | Umberto de Morpurgo
Leonce Aslangul | 10–12, 3–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4 | Stade Français |
1924 | not held – Olympics |
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Women's Doubles
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Mixed Doubles
See also
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