The Kilkenny County and City Open was an open grass court tennis tournament founded in 1882 as the County Kilkenny Tournament at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. In 1884 the event was renamed as the Kilkenny County and City Tournament. The tournament ran until 1920.
History The County Kilkenny Tournament was a late 19th century tennis event first staged in 1882 at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland.Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022).https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/County Kilkenny.. search tournament by name. Tennis Archives. Netherlands. By 1884 the tournament was renamed as the Kilkenny County and City Tournament,Dictionary of Irish Biography and was held at the Kilkenny County and City Lawn Tennis Club, Archersfield, Kilkenny.Carlow Sentinel The held up to 1920 when it was called the Kilkenny County and City Open.
This tournament was predominantly an Irish affair, featuring notable Irish players such as Ernest Browne, Grainger Chaytor, May Langrishe and Mabel Cahill and English players such as Alfred Beamish, Jack Hillyard and Mabel Parton.
Finals Men's Singles (Incomplete roll) YearWinnersRunners-upScore1882 Michael Gallwey McNamara George Montague Butterworth6-3, 6–3, 6-21885 Tom Campion Charles Henry Chaytor6-4, 6-31886 Ernest Browne Willoughby Hamilton6-4, 4–6, 6–3.1887 Grainger Chaytor Francis Slade-Gully6-1, 6-11890 Manliffe Francis Goodbody Toler Roberts Garvey6-4, 6-41908 Alfred Beamish Louis Meldon6-2, 3–6, 7-51920 Jack Hillyard D'Arcy McCrea6-2, 1–6, 6-3
Women's Singles (Incomplete roll) YearWinnersRunners-upScore1882Dublin Daily Express May Langrishe Beatrice Langrishe?1883 May Langrishe Mary Lysaght 6-1, 6–2, 6-01884 Mabel Cahill May Langrishe6-4, 6-41885 May Langrishe Miss Neville6-1, 6–8, 6-41886 Mabel Cahill Beatrice Langrishe7-5, 6–2, 6-41887 Jennie Power E. McCheane 6-8, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2, 7-51908Kilkenny Moderator Ruth Dyas Durlacher Mabel Parton 6-4, 4–6, 6-21920 Hilda Wallis Phoebe Blair-White6-2, 7-5
Mix Doubles (Incomplete roll) YearWinnersRunners-upScore1885 Francis R. Swayne Mabel Cahill R.P. Hamilton Adela Langrishe8-6, 8–6, 3–6, 3–6, 9-71886 Ernest Browne May Langrishe Francis R. Swayne Mabel Cahill6-1, 6–1, 6-11887Tennis Archives R. Plunkett-Greene Miss Rotheram Francis Slade-Gully A.F. Gregory6-4, 3–6, 6-2
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