Moscow International Championships
The Moscow International Championships was a men's and women's open international outdoor tennis tournament founded in 1956. The tournament was organised by the Tennis Federation of the USSR was played on clay courts in Moscow, Soviet Union until 1975. The event also carried the joint denomination of USSR International Championships. The championships were part ILTF European Circuit a sub circuit of the ILTF World Circuit until 1972 then became part of the ILTF Independent Tour from 1973 until it was discontinued. History In the mid-1950s confrontational relations between the Western Bloc and Soviet Union eased in part the Khrushchev Thaw a policy of de-Stalinization by then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, meant that Soviet players were free to travel to overseas international tournaments, while foreign players could take part in a limited number of tournaments within the USSR, mainly in the capital Moscow. The two prominent international tournaments for foreign players to ...
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