The Cinque Ports Championships was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1902. The event was staged annually at Folkestone Lawn Tennis Club,

Folkestone Folkestone ( ) is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England. The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs. It was an important harbour and shipping port for most of the 19th and 20t ...

, Kent, England until 1954.

History

In 1895 the orgiginal Folkestone Lawn Tennis Club was formed. In 1902 the club established the Cinque Ports Championships. The

Cinque Ports The Confederation of Cinque Ports () is a historic group of coastal towns in south-east England – predominantly in Kent and Sussex, with one outlier (Brightlingsea) in Essex. The name is Old French, meaning "five harbours", and alludes to th ...

is an historical grouping of towns located in Kent and

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. The tournament was played annually through till 1954 when it was discontinued.

Venue

The original club had 14 grass tennis courts and situated on land between Bouverie Road and Shorncliffe Road. In 1914 and 1920 it also hosted

Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...

matches.Folkestone Harbour and Seafront Development Company

References

{{Reflist Grass court tennis tournaments Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom