The Miami Invitational Tennis Championships was a USLTA/ILTF affiliated clay court tennis tournament founded in 1946. Also known simply as the Miami Invitational, the event was usually played at the end January to early April depending on the scheduling by the Florida Tennis Association (FTA), in Miami, Florida, United States. The event ran annually until 1966 when it was discontinued.
Finals Mens singles (incomplete roll) YearWinnersRunners-upScore1946 Pancho Segura Bill Talbert6-8, 6-0, 6-11949 Gardner Larned Gardnar Mulloy7-9, 6-3, 6-4, 8-10, 7-51952 Vic Seixas Dick Savitt5-7, 6-3, 6-21953 Gardnar Mulloy Hal Burrows6-4, 6-3, 6-31954 Gardnar Mulloy Art Larsen6-2, 5-7, 6-41960 Donald Kierbow José Edison Mandarino7-9, 6-4, 9-7, 6-21962 Gardnar Mulloy John Karabass6-3, 6-0, 6-41963 Ed Rubinoff Gardnar Mulloy10-8, 3-6, 6-1, 6-41966 Bill Tym Lowry Bell6-2, 6-3
Women's singles (incomplete roll) YearWinnersRunners-upScore1952 Magda Rurac Betty Ruth James 6-2 6-41954Mulloy, Larson Gain Miami Tennis Finals. (Feb 28, 1954) Reading Eagle - via Google News Archive·. Page 31. Doris Hart Joan Mericades 6-2, 6-21960Ocala Star-Banner via Google News Archive. 25 January 1960. p. 9. Marilyn Stock Margaret Demogenes 0-6, 6-4, 6-41963Joseph Gazette via Google News Archive. 28 January 1963. p. 9. Stephanie DeFina Carol Ann Prosen 6-3, 6-3
Mixed doubles (incomplete roll) YearWinnersRunners-upScore1952The Robesonian via Google News Archive. 1 April 1952. p. 4. Tony Vincent Magda Rurac Bob Curtis Carla Curtis 6-4 6-11954St. Petersburg Times via Google News Archive. 1 March 1954. p. 7. Tony Vincent Doris Hart Robert Bedard Hannah Sladek 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
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