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East Of Ireland Championships
The East of Ireland Tennis Championships originally known as the East of Ireland Championships is a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1885. The first championships was played at the Howth Lawn Tennis Club, Howth, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. The tournament ran as a senior international tour event until 1979. The championships are still being played today. History The first staging of the East of Ireland Championships were first held in 1885 at the Howth Lawn Tennis Club in Howth, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland through until 1889 when it ended. In 1904 the championships were revived but by this time had been moved to the 1904 Pavilion Grounds, Kingstown, Ireland until 1914. The tournament was not held during World War One. Following the First World War the venue was changed to the Mount Temple Lawn Tennis Club at Dartry, a suburb of south Dublin until 1924 (though it was not staged in 1921). The East of Ireland Championships were not held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McVeagh
George McVeagh, also known as Trevor McVeagh and T. G. McVeagh, (14 September 1906 – 5 June 1968) was an Irish sportsman who was capped in four sports for his country as a cricket, hockey, tennis, and squash player. He is considered the greatest all-round sportsman of his day in Ireland. Early life Trevor McVeagh was born on 14 September 1906 in Drewstown House, Athboy, County Meath. His father, George Joseph Brooke McVeagh, was a landowner and local magistrate serving as the High Sheriff of Meath in 1891. His mother, Grace Alice Maude, was a daughter of a British army lieutenant-general Charles Annesley Benson. The family had a strong cricketing background. His great-grandfather, Ferdinand, was one of the founders of Phoenix Cricket Club and his father had his own cricket ground at Athboy. His elder sister Stella was capped for Ireland at hockey and her son, Donald Pratt, became a notable cricketer and all-rounder. According to the 1911 census, McVeagh family had 3 sons ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Court Tennis Tournaments
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Grass Court Tennis Tournaments
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1885 Establishments In Ireland
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Anna-Giulia Remondina
Anna-Giulia Remondina (born 1 June 1989) is an Italian former tennis player. On 2 May 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 219, whilst her best doubles ranking was 444 on 12 August 2013. She made her WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ... main-draw debut at the 2011 Budapest Grand Prix, qualifying as a lucky loser. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 24 (10 titles, 14 runner-ups) Doubles: 20 (4 titles, 16 runner-ups) References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Remondina, Anna-Giulia 1989 births Living people Italian female tennis players 20th-century Italian women 21st-century Italian women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Lombard
Betty Lombard (''c.'' 1920 – March 1984) was an Irish tennis player who was a quarter finalist in the women's doubles at the 1948 Wimbledon Championships, and reached the Women's Plate final at Wimbledon, in 1953. Career Betty Lombard was born Elizabeth Ann Lombard around 1920. She lived on Anglesea Road, Dublin. She took up tennis, first playing at the Anglesea Tennis Club, and later with the Lansdowne Lawn Tennis Club. She won the singles title at the East of Ireland Championships 12 times. Lombard won the singles at the Irish Championships in 1941, 1943, and 1951. With Mary Fitzgibbon (née Nichols), Lombard played in the doubles quarter-final on the Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1948. She won the Irish Championships women's doubles title in 1951 with Fitzgibbon. In 1953, Lombard played in the Women's Plate final at Wimbledon. Lombard ran a typing and secretarial school on Harcourt Street, Dublin. After her playing career, Lombard helped with the administration of the Lein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Wallis
Mabel Hilda Wallis (12 November 1900 – 8 December 1979) was an Irish tennis player. Wallis reached the final of the Irish Championships at Dublin for the first time in 1921 where she lost to Elizabeth Ryan. She won the Irish title in 1924, 1926, 1930 and 1933. She participated twice in Wimbledon. In 1924, she lost her second round match against Dorothy Shepherd Barron 0–6, 1–6. Twelve years later, in 1936, she reached the third round but had to pull out of the tournament. Wallis participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics at Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ... where she reached the quarterfinals in mixed doubles alongside Edwin McCrea. References External links * * Irish female tennis players Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Black (tennis)
Donald L. M. Black (2 December 1927 – 19 October 2000) was a Rhodesian tennis player. Early life Black was born in Hartley (now Chegutu), to an English mother and Scottish father. Career Black made his Wimbledon debut in 1953 and defeated Czeslaw Spychala in the opening round.Tennis Archive Profile He came from two sets down to beat John Horn in the second round and was then eliminated from the tournament by Belgium's . Another Belgian, |
Sidney Schwartz
Sidney Schwartz was a tennis player from the United States who competed in the mid-20th century. He reached the quarterfinals of the 1950 U.S. National Championships – Men's singles, U.S. National Championships in 1950, losing to Dick Savitt. Career Schwartz played his first tournament at the Eastern Indoors held in New York in 1945 and played at the Bassford Wood Courts. He won two Eastern Clay Court Championships in 1951 and 1962. He reached the final of the US National Indoor Championships in 1948, losing to Bill Talbert. In 1957 he won the East of Ireland Championships in Dublin against Isaías Pimentel. He competed in the 1961 Maccabiah Games in Israel, losing in the third round to Israeli Elazar Davidman. Schwartz played his final tournament at the Long Island Championships at Great Neck (village), New York, Great Neck, New York in 1968. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwartz, Sidney American male tennis players Living people Year of birth missing ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heraldo Weiss
Heraldo Weiss (31 August 1917 – 30 August 1952) was an Argentine tennis player. Biography Weiss was born in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina on 31 August 1917. He won a silver medal at the Pan American Games. He was one of Argentina's best tennis players between the 1940s and 1950s. He reached the eighth finals (fourth round) in the men's single tournament of Roland Garros in 1948. He also distinguished himself in several international competitions, notably in the United Kingdom and in Germany as in Baden-Baden in 1950, where he dominated Gottfried von Cramm and faced Jaroslav Drobný (a finalist in Roland-Garros three months earlier) in the final. Weiss reached the fourth round in Wimbledon mixed tournament three times: in 1948, 1949, and 1950 (in 1949 with his wife). He was captain of the Argentina Davis Cup team. He played two Davis Cup matches with the Argentine Team against Belgium in Brussels in 1948. He was the husband of tennis champion Mary Terán de Weiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willoughby Hamilton
Willoughby Hamilton (born as James Willoughby Hamilton; 9 December 1864 – 27 September 1943) was a co-world No. 1 Irish male tennis player, a footballer and international badminton player. Tennis career Hamilton played his first tournament at the 1884 Irish Championships where he reached the quarter finals stage, before losing to Herbert Knox McKay. His significant major title wins include the Northern Championships (1888, 1889), and the Irish Championships (1889). In the latter tournament he defeated the six time Wimbledon champion William Renshaw in the all-comers final and then went on to defeat his brother Ernest Renshaw in the challenge round. This made him one of the favorites for the 1889 Wimbledon title but he suffered a five set defeat in the semifinal against Harry S. Barlow. For the span 1889–90, Hamilton was ranked by many as the best tennis player in the world. Hamilton did not defend his Wimbledon title in the 1891 challenge round. He won the Gentlemen's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
