The Hudson River Championships also known as the Hudson River Association Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament founded in 1888 by the Hudson River Lawn Tennis Association. It was first played at the Far and Near Lawn Tennis Club,

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,United States. It was then played various venues of the association members through till 1910 when it was discontinued.

History

The championships were organised by the Hudson River Lawn Tennis Association that was founded in 1887. that was composed of the Amakassin, Englewood, Park Hill, Poughkeepsie, Powelton, Sleepy Hollow, and

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, Country Clubs. The association and the clubs it represented were members of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. Previous winners of the men's and women's singles titles included; Carman Randolph Runyon, Charles Sands,

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and

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. The tournament was played at various locations including;

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Newburgh, New York Newburgh is a city in the U.S. state of New York, within Orange County. With a population of 28,856 as of the 2020 census, it is a principal city of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown metropolitan area. Located north of New York City, a ...

Poughkeepsie, New York Poughkeepsie ( ), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it) is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsi ...

, and

Yonkers, New York Yonkers () is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. Developed along the Hudson River, it is the third most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City and Buffalo. The population of Yonkers was 211,569 as enu ...

, United States.

References

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