The Norfolk Championships also known as the Norfolk County Lawn Tennis Championships was a combined men's and women's

grass court A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Grass courts are made of grasses in different compositions depending on the tournament. Although grass c ...

tournament originally founded in 1906. It was held in multiple locations such as

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ...

Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A pop ...

, and

Cromer Cromer ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Norwich, north-northeast of London and east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline. The local government authorities are Nor ...

, England until 1971.

History

The Norfolk County Lawn Tennis Championships were established in 1906. The tournament was staged continuously until 1915 just after the start of

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. The tournament resumed in 1919 that was staged by the Cromer Lawn Tennis Club, until 1939 when it ceased for seven years until after World War II. It resumed in 1947 and continued for another 24 years until 1971 when it was abolished. Previous winners of the men's singles title included;

Nigel Sharpe Nigel G. Sharpe ( 23 December 1904 – 3 October 1962) was a British tennis player. Career Sharpe represented the Great Britain Davis Cup team in one tie, against Poland in Torquay in 1930, called up to a side weakened by key withdrawals. The B ...

and

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. Previous winners of the women's singles championship included;

Hilda Lane Hilda Lane (1877 – 17 December 1916) was an English tennis player active during the first decade and a half of the 20th century. Career Between 1902 and 1914 she participated in the single event of the Wimbledon Championships and achieved her ...

Ethel Thomson Larcombe Ethel Larcombe (née Ethel Warneford Thomson, 8 June 1879 – 11 August 1965) was a British female tennis player and badminton player. She won the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships as well as 11 badminton titles ...

, Dorothy Kemmis-Betty Evelyn Attwood and Anne Haydon.Cromer Lawn Tennis & Squash Club

References

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