The Kilkenny County and City Open was an open grass court tennis tournament founded in 1882 as the County Kilkenny Tournament at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. In 1884 the event was renamed as the Kilkenny County and City Tournament.
The tournament ran until 1920.
History
The County Kilkenny Tournament was a late 19th century tennis event first staged in 1882 at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
[Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022]
https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/County Kilkenny.
search tournament by name. Tennis Archives. Netherlands. By 1884 the tournament was renamed as the Kilkenny County and City Tournament,
[Dictionary of Irish Biography] and was held at the Kilkenny County and City Lawn Tennis Club, Archersfield, Kilkenny.
[Carlow Sentinel] The held up to 1920 when it was called the Kilkenny County and City Open.
This tournament was predominantly an Irish affair, featuring notable Irish players such as
Ernest Browne,
Grainger Chaytor,
May Langrishe
Mary Isabella "May" Langrishe (1864–1939) was an Irish tennis player. In the most important tennis tournaments of the late 19th century she won the singles title at the presitigous Irish Championships held at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club th ...
and
Mabel Cahill
Mabel Esmonde Cahill (2 April 1863 – 2 February 1905) was an Irish female tennis player, active in the late 19th century, and was the first foreign woman to win a major tennis tournament when she won the 1891 US National Championships.
Early ...
and English players such as
Alfred Beamish
Alfred Ernest Beamish (6 August 1879 – 28 February 1944) was an English tennis player born in Richmond, Surrey, England. He finished runner-up to James Cecil Parke in the Men's Singles final of the Australasian Championships, the future Austr ...
,
Jack Hillyard
Major Jack Montagu Hillyard (2 January 1891 – 16 February 1983) played cricket for Harrow in Fowler's match in 1910, served in the British Army in the First World War, and became a moderately successful tennis player in the 1920s and 1930s ...
and
Mabel Parton.
Finals
Men's Singles
(Incomplete roll)
Women's Singles
(Incomplete roll)
Mix Doubles
(Incomplete roll)
References
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Grass court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in Ireland
Defunct tennis tournaments in the Republic of Ireland
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom