The Mashonaland Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament founded in 1949 as the Mashonaland Lawn Tennis Championships. The tournament was played Salisbury, Mashonaland, Rhodesia,The Age (1952) and ran annually until 1979 when it was discontinued as part of the ILTF Independent Circuit.
History In 1949 the first Mashonaland Championships were founded. The tournament was organised by the Mashonaland Lawn Tennis Board and affiliated to the Rhodesia Lawn Tennis Association. The event was played annually on outdoor clay courts. It initially ran annually as part of the ILTF African Circuit, a regional sub circuit of the ILTF World Circuit from 1949 to 1969 for men, then 1972 for women before it then became part of the ILTF Independent Circuit (those events not part of the men's ILTF Grand Prix Circuit or women's Virginia Slims Circuit until 1979 when it was abolished.
Finals Men's singles (incomplete roll) YearChampionsRunners-upScore↓ ILTF World Circuit ↓1959 Don Black Yashvin Shretta6–4, 6–3.1964 Don Black (2) Cliff Drysdale6–4, 3–6, 6–2.1967 Jim McManus Ramanathan Krishnan 6–4, 3–6, 6–4.↓ Open Era ↓1969 Andrew Pattison Hank Irvine 6–3, 5–7, 6–4.↓ ILTF Independent Circuit ↓1970 Hank Irvine Adrian Bey6–4, 6–4.1971 Andrew Pattison Richard Russell6–2, 6–2.
Women's singles (incomplete roll) YearChampionsRunners-upScore↓ ILTF World Circuit ↓ 1966 Pat Walkden Gertruida Walhof6–4, 4–6, 7–5 1967 Pat Walkden (2) Frances Maclennan 6–1, 6–0 1969 Deidre Allan Beverley Billington6–3, 6–3↓ Open Era ↓ 1970 Deidre Allan (2) Jenny Waggott6–2, 4–6, 6–4 1971 Karen Irvine Maryna Godwin6–4, 1–6, 6–2 1972 Marianna Brummer Sally Hudson-Beck7–5, 4–6, 6–2↓ ILTF Independent Circuit ↓ 1973 Sally Hudson-Beck Deidre Paterson6–3, 2–6, 6–3
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