The Baden Baden International also known as the Baden-Baden tennis tournament and the Baden Baden Invitational was a tennis event held from 1896 through 1966 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on outdoor Clay courts.
History The Baden Baden tournament was first held in 1896 played at the Baden Baden Lawn Tennis Club (today called the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club), Baden-Baden, Germany the tournament fluctuated between July, August, and September over the course of its run the tournament survived for 55 years with various breaks due to the first and second world wars.
Finals 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 (Incomplete roll)
YearChampionsRunners-upScore1896 Reginald Doherty Victor Voss 6–1, 7–5, 6–21897 Reginald Doherty (2) Laurence Doherty walkover1904 Otto Froitzheim George Ball-Greene 6–1, 3–6, 9–71905 George Ball-Greene Anthony Wilding walkover1906 Anthony Wilding George Ball-Greene 6–1, 6–2, 6–11907 Anthony Wilding (2) Otto Froitzheim 6–3, 6–2, 6–31908 Anthony Wilding (3) Otto Froitzheim 6–4, 6–3, 6–41909 Otto Froitzheim Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe walkover1910 Oscar Kreuzer (2) Otto Froitzheim 4–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–1, 4-2 ret1914–1919Not held (due to world war one)1924 Otto Froitzheim (3) Oscar Kreuzer 7–5, 6–2, 7–51925 Johann Philip Buss Otto Reuter 6–1, 10–8, 6–41926 Johann Philip Buss (2) Hector Fisher 7–5, 6–2, 6–21927 Otto Froitzheim (4) Pat Hughes 6–2, 6–2, 6–21928 Otto Froitzheim (5) Erik Worm 7–5, 6–4, 6–0 1929 René de Buzelet Otto Froitzheim 6–2, 0–6, 2–6, 6–3, ret1930 Pat Hughes Otto Froitzheim 2–6, 8–6, ret1931 Tournament abandoned due to rain1932 Jacques Brugnon Pat Hughes 6–3, 6–2, 6–41933 Gottfried von Cramm Louis Haensch 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 1934 Marcel Bernard Johann Philip Buss 6–3, 6–41935 Fritz Kuhlmann Henner Henkel 4–6, 5–7, 6–2, 6–3, 7–51936 Henner Henkel Adam Borowski 5–7, 6–2, 7–5, 2–6, 7–51937 Bernard Destremau ? ?1938–1949Not held (partly due to world war two)1950 Jaroslav Drobný Heraldo Weiss 6–1, 6–11951 Jaroslav Drobný (2) Sven Davidson 2–6 6–2 6–4 6–21952 Jaroslav Drobný (3) Eric Sturgess 1–6 6–0 6–21953 Jaroslav Drobný (4) Lennart Bergelin 7–5, 4–6, 6–41954 Jaroslav Drobný (5) Giuseppe Merlo 9–11, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–21955 Budge Patty Fausto Gardini 6–1, 8–6, 6–11956 Jacques Brichant Budge Patty 6–2, 6–21957 Giuseppe Merlo Rupert Huber 6–3, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6, 6–41958 Sven Davidson Jacques Brichant 6–2. 6–21959 Wolfgang Stuck Billy Knight 6–3, 6–3, 9–9, ret1960 Luis Ayala Torben Ulrich 6–2, 6–41961 Manuel Santana Luis Ayala 10–8, 4–6, 6–31962 Neale Fraser Fred Stolle 6–1, 6–41963 Roy Emerson José Edison Mandarino 6–3, 9–7. 7–51964 Manuel Santana (2) Ronald Barnes 6–3, 6–31965 Christian Kuhnke Tony Roche 3–6, 6–1, 6–31966 Ken Fletcher John Newcombe 3–6, 6–3, 6–1
Women's singles (incomplete roll)
YearChampionsRunners-upScore1896 Elsie Lane ? Miss Zographo 6–1, 6–01897 Blanche Bingley Hillyard Charlotte Cooper 6–2, 6–41905 Elsie Lane (2) ? Lucie Bergmann 6–4, 6–41906 Dorothea Douglass Toupie Lowther 6–4, 6–41907 Daisy Kercheval-Hole Hedwig Neresheimer 6–4, 6–31908 Dagmar von Krohn Marie Bertrand Amende 6–2, 6–01909 Agnes Morton Dagmar von Krohn 6–3, 6–2 1910 Agnes Morton (2) Hedwig Neresheimer 6–4 6–31913 Lilly Salin Anita Heimann Lent 6–0, 7–51914–1919Not held (due to world war one)1921 Ilse Friedleben Frau von Udermann ?1924 Ilse Friedleben (2) ? ?1925 Irma Kallmeyer Erika de Lacroix ? 1926 Ilse Friedleben (3) Irma Kallmeyer 6–1, 6–31927 Irma Kallmeyer Anna Weihermann Hemp 6–8, 6–4, 7–51928 Ilse Friedleben (4) Irma Kallmeyer 6–1, 6–2 1929 Simonne Mathieu Ilse Friedleben 7–5, 6–21930 Simonne Mathieu (2) Ilse Friedleben 6–2, 7–51931 Ilse Friedleben (5) Paula von Reznicek 6–4, 4–6, 6–41932 Lolette Payot Paula von Reznicek 4–6, 8–6, 6–31933 Toni M. Schomburgk Klara Hammer 2–6, 6–1, 6–21935 Marie-Louise Horn Anne Peitz Schneide 6–4, 6–11937 Irmgard Rost Gisela Enger 6–4, 6–31938 Totta Zehden Gisela Enger 6–1, 6–31940 Hilde Weihe Fraulein Rduch walkover1941–1949Not held (partly due to world war two)1950 Dorothy Head Mary Terán de Weiss 7–5, 7–51951 Mary Terán de Weiss Mrs Karel Kozeluh 2–6 6–2 6–4 6–21952 Joy Gannon Mottram Joan Curry ?1953 Joy Gannon Mottram (2) Dorothy Head Knode 9–7, 1–6, 10–81954 Joy Gannon Mottram (3) Edda Buding 6–1, 6–11957 Yola Ramírez Edda Buding 6–2, 6–11958 Angela Mortimer Edda Buding 5–7, 6–3, 8–61959 Edda Buding Erika Obst Launert 6–4, 7–51960 Angela Mortimer Yola Ramírez 4–6, 6–2, 6–21961 Elizabeth Starkie Margot Dittmeyer 6–3, 1–6, 6–01962 Maria Bueno Renée Schuurman 2–6, 6–4, 6–31963 Norma Baylon Annette Van Zyl 6–2, 2–6, 6–2 1964 Maria Bueno (2) Norma Baylon 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 1965 Margaret Smith Lesley Turner 6–2, 6–11966 Helga Schultze Helga Niessen 6–3, 3–6, 7–5
See also History of tennis
Notes
References Lawn Tennis and Badminton Magazines, 1896–1901, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd., London, UK. Lawn Tennis and Croquet Magazines, 1901–1920, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd., London, UK. Tennis:Cultural History, Gillmeister, Heiner, A&C Black, 1998, .
External links TennisBase Baden Baden roll of honour