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Bad Neuenahr International

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Bad Neuenahr International
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1909; 115 years ago (1909)
Abolished1978; 46 years ago (1978)
LocationBad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
VenueHTC Bad Neuenahr
SurfaceClay (outdoors)

The Bad Neuenahr International or Internationale Bad Neuenahr was a combined tennis tournament founded in 1909 as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler International.[1] It was held at HTC Bad Neuenahr, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was discontinued in 1978.[1]

History

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Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town[2] in the German Bundesland of the Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district.[3]

In 1882 a spa was first established in the town at Wiesenallee.[4] Then two new lawn tennis courts were built, later further two tennis courts were built at the Kurhaus.[4] By the early 1890s visiting wealthy spa guests and locals began to play against each other on these courts.[5] In 1900 in order to promote tennis responsibility for staging events was down to the spa administrators.[4]

In 1909 the first international open tennis tournaments were held and continued until 1911.[4] The foreign participants were usually bathers taking a cure in the spa's.[4] In 1912 the spa administration donated a "gold cup" that attracted good players from all over Europe to Neuenahr,[5] known as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Gold Cup awarded to winners of the men's singles event in the international tournament.[1] The first winner was the Belgian champion Louis Jacques Émile Trasenster.[1][4] In 1920 the Hockey Tennis Club Bad Neuenahr was opened,[6] with 14 new clay courts and the event transferred there. In 1921 the spa administration transferred the event to HTC Bad Neuenahr.[1][7] The tournament was staged annually until 1978.[1]

Finals

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Men's singles

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(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1912[8] Belgium Louis Trasenster Germany Claus Herberg 6–3, 6–3, 6–1.[8]
1913[8] Germany Claus Herberg Germany Wilhelm Gisbert Groos 6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1915/1919 Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1920[8] Germany Dr. A. Marcotty ? ?
1921[8] Germany Ernst Büchting ? ?
1922[8] Germany Frans Ludwig Hoppe Germany Ernst Büchting ?
1924[8] Germany Heinz C. Landmann Germany Fritz Kuhlmann ?
1925[8] Germany Conrad Kupsch Germany Fritz Kuhlmann 6–2, 11–9, 5–7, 6–2
1926[8] Germany Erwin Statz Germany Herr Claus 6–0, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
1927[8] Netherlands Cornelis Albert Bryan[9] Germany Otto Froitzheim 8–6 4–6 3–6 ret.
1928[8] Germany Fritz Kuhlmann France Jacques Bonte[10] 6–3, 4–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
1929[8] France Jacques Boussus Japan Yoshiro Ota 6–4, 6–4, 7–5
1930[8] Germany Eberhard Nourney Germany Ludmar Heitmann 6–2, 6–4, 6–2
1931[8] Germany Eberhard Nourney (2) Germany Heinz Remmert 5–7, 6–1, 6–1, 6–0
1932[8] Germany C.Rudolf Strauss Germany Karl Heinz Kretzer 8–6, 1–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–1
1933[8] Germany Helmut Sindern Germany Josef Hirtz 7–5, 0–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5
1934[8] Germany Eberhard Nourney (3) Germany Erwin Statz 2–0, ret.
1935[8] Germany Eberhard Nourney (4) Germany Edgar Dettmer[11] 7-5, 7-5, 6-0
1936[8] Germany Fritz Kuhlmann Germany Edgar Dettmer 2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3, 6–0
1937[8] Germany Edmund Bartkowiak Germany Harald Richter 6–1, 6–2, 6–0
1938[8] Germany Edmund Bartkowiak (2) Germany Ludmar Heitmann 6–2, 6–1, 6–1
1939[8] Germany Helmut Gulcz Germany Ernst Buchholz 6–1, 4–6, 6–1, 9–7
1940-48 Not held (due to World War II)
1949[8] Germany Engelbert Koch Germany Ernst Buchholz 6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1950[8] Germany Ernst Buchholz India Dilip Bose 13–11, 6–3, 6–3
1951[8] Poland Wladyslaw Skonecki Germany Ernst Buchholz 4–6, 6–1, ret.
1952[1] United Kingdom Tony Mottram Australia Ian Ayre 6–0, 6–3, 6–1
1953[1] Germany Gottfried von Cramm Germany Ernst Buchholz 4–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–3
1954[1] United Kingdom Tony Mottram (2) Germany Ernst Buchholz 7–5, 6–0
1955[1] United States Hugh Stewart United States Malcolm Fox 6–2, 6–2
1956[1] South Africa Gordon Forbes Austria Ladislav Legenstein 3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 8–6
1957[1] Egypt Jaroslav Drobný France Pierre Darmon 6–1, 6–8, 6–4
1958[1] India Ramanathan Krishnan Brazil Carlos Fernandes 3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
1959[1] Chile Patricio Rodriguez Germany Ernst Buchholz 6–2, 7–5, 6–3
1960[1] Germany Peter Scholl Brazil Carlos Fernandes 4–6, 6–2, 6–1
1961[1] Australia Rod Laver Chile Luis Ayala 6–3, 4–6, 6–3
1962[1] Australia Neale Fraser Germany Ingo Buding 6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1963[1] Hungary István Gulyás Australia Martin Mulligan 6–3, 4–6, 9–7, 6–0
1964[1] Brazil José Edison Mandarino Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Boro Jovanović 6–1, 8–6, 6–4
1965[1] Germany Attila Korpás Germany Lothar Pawlik 4–6, 8–6, 6–4
1966[1] Germany Attila Korpás (2) Germany Horst Guenther Klameth 6–2, 8–6, 6–0
1967[1] Germany Wilhelm Bungert Germany Harald Elschenbroich 2–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–4
1968[1] Japan Koji Watanabe Hungary István Gulyás 6–4, 6–8, 6–4
↓  Open era  ↓
1969[1] Australia Martin Mulligan Germany Wilhelm Bungert 6–3, 3–6, 13–11, 6–2
↓  ILTF Independent Circuit  ↓
1970[1] Germany Attila Korpás (3) Hungary István Gulyás ?
1971[1] Germany Christian Kuhnke Germany Attila Korpás 7–5, 6–1, 8–10, 6–2
1972[1] Germany Karl Meiler Germany Attila Korpás 6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1973[1] Germany Alex Kurucz Germany Hans-Joachim Plötz shared title
1974[1] Germany Harald Elschenbroich Czechoslovakia Jan Kukal 5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 7–6
1975[1] Hungary Szabolcs Baranyi Czechoslovakia Jan Kukal 6–4, 2–0, ret.
1976[1] Germany Peter Elter Germany Werner Zirngibl 6–1, 1–0, ret.
1977[1] France Patrick Proisy Germany Jürgen Fassbender 6–3, 6–1
1978[1] Germany Jürgen Fassbender United Kingdom Buster Mottram 6–3, 6–4, 1–6, 6–7, 2–1, retd.

Women' singles

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(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1911 Germany Baroness Hedwig Loë Germany Baroness Grete Loë 8–6, 4–6, 7–5
1912 Germany G. Schell Germany M. Kaubes 6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1915/1919 Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1924 Germany Fräulein Lutzmann Germany Frau Suschen Rütten 6–4, 6–3, 6–3
1925 Germany Fräulein Lutzmann (2) Germany Lidda Neumerkel 3–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–2
1926 Germany Fräulein Lutzmann (3) Germany Frau Suschen Rütten 6-1, 6-1, 6-3
1928 Netherlands Madzy Rollin Couquerque Netherlands Margaretha Canters 5–7. 6–1 abandoned
1929 Germany Ilse Friedleben Germany Hilde Krahwinkel 6–0, 6–0
1931 Germany Ilse Friedleben (2) Germany Klara Hammer 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
1935 Germany Lisa Fabian Germany Erna Reimann 6–1, 4–6, 6–4
1936 Germany Lisa Fabian Germany Ingeborg Schumann 3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1937 Germany Margarathe Käppel Germany Irmgard Rost 6–3, 6–0
1938 Germany Fräulein ten Elsen Germany Fräulein Rduch 8–6, 6–6, retd
1940-48 Not held (due to World War II)
1952 United Kingdom Joy Gannon Mottram Australia Beryl Penrose 6–1, 6–2
1953 United Kingdom Joy Gannon Mottram (2) Czechoslovakia Helena Matouš 6–1, 6–3
1954 United Kingdom Joy Gannon Mottram (3) Germany Edda Buding 6–2, 6–1
1957 United Kingdom Angela Mortimer United Kingdom Patricia Ward 6-1 8-6
1958 Germany Ilse Buding United Kingdom Rita Bentley 6–4, 6–4
1959 United Kingdom Patricia Ward Argentina Norma Baylon 4–6, 7–5, 7–5
1961 South Africa Sandra Reynolds South Africa Renée Schuurman 6–3, 6–1
1962 South Africa Renée Schuurman Germany Heide Schildknecht 6–2, 6–1
1964 United Kingdom Elizabeth Starkie Australia Faye Toyne 6–1, 6–2
1967 Germany Helga Schultze Germany Susanne Korpas 6–2, 6–1
↓  Open era  ↓
1969 Germany Helga Schultze-Hosl (2) Germany Helga Niessen 5–7, 7–5, 6–4

References

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