The St George's Hill Open tournament was founded as the St George's Hill Tournament a men's grass court tennis tournament staged at St Georges Hill Weybridge, Surrey, England in 1881, that ran until 1883, and was not held again.Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Tournament:https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/?St. Georges Hill.. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. George Routledge and Sons. London. England. pp.113-117. In 1913 the St Georges Hill Lawn Tennis Club was established. In 1922 St Georges Hill LTC started a combined men's and women's tournament the St George's Hill Open this ran as a senior tennis tour event until 1966.
History The St George's Hill Tournament a men's grass court tennis tournament first staged in 1881 at the Weybridge, Surrey, England. The first winner of the men's singles was England's Algernon Wilfred Milne. In 1913 the St George's Hill Lawn Tennis Club opened. In 1922 a new combined event was established called the St George's Hill Open Tournament this time the grass court tournament ran until 1966.
Though the tournament is no longer a part of any international tour, it is still being staged today and is known as the St George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament.
Finals Men's Singles Incomplete roll YearChampionsRunners-upScoreSt.George's Hill Tournament1881 Wilfred Milne B. Hawes3 sets to 01883Lawn Tennis Results. (1883). Routledges Sporting Annual. pp.113-117. Clarence Clarke William Edward Glyn6-0, 6–4, 8-6St.George's Hill Open 1922 Brian Norton Charles Roupell6-0, 6-11924 Theodore Mavrogordato Tony Buzzard6-3, 6-01925 Carl-Erik von Braun J.S. Heagerty6-1, 6-31926 Pat Hughes C.H. Watson6-1, 6-21927 Pat Hughes F. R. L. Crawford6-1, 6-11928 Pat Spence Brian Gilbert6-0, 7-5 1929 Ryuki Miki Harry Lee4-6, 6–3, 7-51930 Ryuki Miki Donald Ross Rutnam6-0, 5–7, 6-21931Steve G Tennis Ryuki Miki Harry Lee6-3, 6-31932 Frank H. D. Wilde Colin Ritchie6-3, 6-11933 Ted Avory Bob Tinkler?1934 Ted Avory Jack Lysaght8-6, 6-41935 Buster Andrews Dickie Ritchie7-5, 3–6, 6-11936 Harry Lee Ted Avory4-6, 6–3, 6-01937 Eric Filby Charles Russell Harris6-1, 7-51938 Nigel G. Sharpe Donald MacPhail8-6, 6-21939 Alejo Domingo Russell Murray Deloford6-3, 6-41940/1945Not held (due to world war two)1947 Ignacy Tloczynski George Godsell6-1, 6-31959 Julian Coni F. Robinson6-3, 6-21960 John Roderick McDonald Vinay Dhawan11-9, 8-61961 Malcom Gibb M. Pang6-2, 6-4Open era
Women's Singles Incomplete roll YearChampionsRunners-upScoreSt.George's Hill Open 1922 Eleanor Rose Vera Spofforth Youle6-2 8-61924 Miss Taylor Margaret Mangin Hasler9-7 6-41925 Esna Boyd Eleanor Rose6-3 0-6 6-3 1926 Eleanor Rose E. Norman 6-2 8-61927 Dorothy Kemmis-Betty Hill Dorothy Shaw 6-3 6-31928 Peggy Saunders Ermyntrude Harvey6-4 6-4 1929 Phyllis Howkins Covell Phyllis Mudford6-3 6-31930 Jenny Sandison Vera Montgomery6-2 6-31931 Phyllis Mudford Esna Boyddivided title1932 Nancy Lyle Naomi Trentham6-0 6-31933 Phyllis Mudford Peggy Saunders Michell6-3 6-31934 Elsie Goldsack Pittman Mary Hardwick6-4 3-6 6-31935 Helen Wills-Moody Elsie Goldsack Pittman6-0 6-41936 Mary Hardwick Elsie Goldsack Pittman9-7 6-01937American Lawn Tennis Jadwiga Jedrzejowska Alice Marble3-6 6-4 6-31938 Alice Marble Bonnie Heine Miller 6–3, 6-41939 Jean Nicoll Betty Nuthall6-2, 6-21940/1945Not held (due to world war two)1946 Margaret Sharp Lewis Pearl Gannon Pantondivided title1947 Sheila Piercey Summers Joy Gannon6-1, 7-51959 Jenny Wagstaff Lorna Cornell Cawthorn3-6, 6–1, 6-31960 Shirley Bloomer Brasher Rosemary Deloford6-1, 6-21961 Lorna Cornell Cawthorn Caroline Yates-Bell6-3 6-31964 Lorna Cornell Cawthorn Mary McAnally10-8 6-21966 Shirley Bloomer Brasher Lorna Greville-Collinsdivided titleOpen era
References
Sources 1877 to 2012 Finals Results. stevegtennis.com. Steve G Tennis. American Lawn Tennis. (1937) New York: American Lawn Tennis Publishing Company. Keesing's Contemporary Archives (1935). Amsterdam: Keesing's Limited. Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022). Tournament:St. Georges Hill. Tennis Archives. Netherlands. Pathfinder. (1935). Philadelphia, PA, United States: Farm Journal, Incorporated. Routledges Sporting Annual. (1883). George Routledge and Sons. London. England. St. George's Hill Open Tennis Tournament (Surrey). www.tennisuk.net. Tennis Services UK Limited. The Oxnard Daily Courier (1938). Oxnard, California, United States.