The Burton-on-Trent Open also called the Burton-on-Trent Open Tennis Tournament was a men's and women's

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tennis tournament founded in August 1883. It was first staged at the

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and ran till 1905 when it was abolished.

History

The Burton-on-Trent Open was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in August 1883. The tournament was held through to 1939 when it was abolished. The gentlemen's singles competed for the Ratcliff Challenge Cup. In 1884 there was two editions of this tournament one in the spring won by Frank Seymour Noon and the other in the summer won by Walter Chamberlain. Other former winners of the men's singles included:

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and

Sydney Howard Smith Sydney Howard Smith (3 February 1872 – 27 March 1947) was a British tennis and badminton player. Career Sydney Smith was the first All England Badminton Men's Singles champion in 1900. He reached his first Wimbledon singles final in 1899, be ...

. Previous women's singles title winners included:

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Violet Pinckney Violet Millicent Pinckney (11 March 1871 – 13 March 1955) was an English tennis player. Pinckney was born at Alderbury, Wiltshire, in 1871 to Major (rank), Major William Pinckney and his wife ''Frances Charlotte Everett''. In 1903 she won ...

and

Alice Pickering Alice Pickering (1860 – 18 February 1939; née ''Alice Mabel Simpson'') was an English tennis player. Pickering played at the Wimbledon Championships from 1895 to 1901. In 1896, she won the all-comers-competition at Wimbledon 1896,Arthur Wall ...

Venue

The tournament was held on the

Burton-upon-Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In 2011, it had a population of 72,299. The d ...

throughout its duration, Ind Coope & Co's were a local brewery firm that also provided some of the tournaments prizes. The Ind Coope Ground was also used by

Staffordshire County Cricket Club Staffordshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty National Counties of English and Welsh cricket, national county cricket, county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the Historic counties of England, ...

References

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