The New England Championships or New England Sectional Championships was a men's and women's open tennis tournament staged annually at various locations from 1886 until 1978.

History

On 7 June 1886, the first Championships of New England were inaugurated at the New Haven Lawn Tennis Club in

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, Connecticut, United States, and the first men's champion was Henry Warner Slocum Jr..Whittersley, Joseph T. (1895). In 1968 the final ladies championship was held that was won by the American player Shirley Fry-Irvin. The mens tournament continued to played until 1978 which was won by the American player

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. The championships were played in New Haven from 1886 until 1903. In 1904 they moved to the Hartford Cricket Club

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almost exclusively for the rest of its annual run. The championships were part of the USNLTA Circuit from 1886 until 1924. It became of part of the

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following the United States joining the

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in 1925 until 1978.

Locations

The championships have been played in the following cities; Chestnut Hill, Hartford and

and

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References

{{reflist Defunct tennis tournaments in the United States