The Middle States Championships also known as the Middle States Sectional Championships or Championship of the Middle States was regional level tournament held at various locations from 1885 to 1968.
History
The spring Championship of the Middle States were first staged at the
St George's Cricket Club
The St George's Cricket Club was originally located in Manhattan, New York it later moved to Hoboken, New Jersey. Its name comes from its association with St. George's Episcopal Church at Stuyvesant Square, Manhattan. It hosted the first intern ...
, Hoboken, New Jersey on 9 June 1885. The first winner of the men's singles event was
Richard D. Sears
Richard Dudley Sears (October 26, 1861 – April 8, 1943) was an American tennis player, who won the US Open (tennis), US National Championships singles in its first seven years, from 1881 to 1887, and the doubles for six years from 1882 to 1887 ...
. The tournament was classified as a regional championship by the
United States Lawn Tennis Association
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States. A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, ...
until 1900 when they started to be referred to as sectional championships (a geographic, competative term, but nothing to do with how they are governed.
Championship Finals
Mens Singles
Womens Singles
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References
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Sources
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* Heathcote, John Moyer (1891). Tennis. London: Longmans,
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* Kimball, Warren F. (2017). "2: The Founding Gentlemen 1877-1913". The United States Tennis Association: Raising the Game. Lincoln, Nebraska: U of Nebraska Press.
* Nieuwland, Alex. "Tournament – Middle States Championships". www.tennisarchives.com. A. Nieuwland.
* Paret, Jahial Parmly; Allen, J. P.; Alexander, Frederick B.; Hardy, Samuel
rom old catalog (1918). Spalding's tennis annual . New York: New York, American sports publishing company
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States