TheCounty Kildare Open Tennis Championship, originally known as theCounty Kildare Tennis Tournament (1879–1880), thenCounty Kildare Championship,[1] is grass court tennis tournament held initially atNaas, County Kildare, in Ireland, established on 2 August 1881.
A County Kildare tennis tournament was first staged in 1879 at the Naas military barracks under the title the County Kildare Tournament.[2] and was a It was a featured event of1879 Men's Tennis tour and1880 Men's Tennis tour. On 2 August 1880, a Colonel de Burgh called for a meeting of members of the Naas and Country Kildare Cricket club to discuss forming a country club for the purpose of providing archery, cricket, football, lawn tennis, polo, and pigeon shooting for local town residents.[3][4]
On 1 January 1881 the County Kildare Club was formally established (later changed to Naas Lawn Tennis Club).[5] In August 1881 the County Kildare Open Tennis Championships came into existence.[6] In 1939 the event was won by Irish Davies Cup playerGeorge McVeagh.[7] This tournament is still being staged today.[8]
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)[9] in some tournaments not all.
^"History – Naas LTC".Naas LTC. Naas, County Kildare, Ireland: Naas Lawn Tennis Club. 2017. Archived fromthe original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved4 August 2018.
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