The Tally-Ho! Open Tennis Championships also known as the Tally-Ho! Hard Courts, was a combined men's and women's
clay court
A clay court is one of the types of tennis court on which the sport of tennis, originally known as "lawn tennis", is played. Clay courts are made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate depending on the tournament.
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tennis tournament originally founded in 1923. The tournament was held at the Tally Ho Lawn Tennis Club,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham,
England until 1982.
History
The Tally-Ho! Open Tennis Championships were established in 1923. The tournament was staged at the Tally Ho Lawn Tennis Club, continuously until 1939 just before the start of
World War II. The tournament resumed in 1947. In 1970 the company Bio-Strath AG a food supplments producer took over sponsorship of the event and it was called the ''Bio Strath Tally Ho! Hard Courts'' until 1974. The championships continued until 1982 when it was abolished.
Notbale winners of the men's singles title included;
Jacques Brugnon
Jacques Marie Stanislas Jean Brugnon (11 May 1895 – 20 March 1978), nicknamed "Toto", was a French tennis player, one of the famous " Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was born in and died ...
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Ryuki Miki
was a Japanese amateur tennis player. His main success was winning the 1934 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles (with Dorothy Round).
Sports career
Ryuki Miki was born in Takamatsu. During his studies at the Kobe University, Kobe Higher ...
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Fred Perry,
[Daily Mirror, 31 March 1932, p.23] Czeslaw Spychala,
Kho Sin-Khie,
Jaroslav Drobny,
Tony Mottram
Anthony John Mottram (8 June 1920 – 6 October 2016) was a British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. Mottram reached the quarterfinal of the 1948 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost to Gardnar Mulloy. In the doubles event he reac ...
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Kim Warwick and
Jeremy Bates. Winners of the women's singles championship included;
Gwen Sterry
Gwendolyne Reingale Sterry Simmers (1905–?) was an English tennis player who was active in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1922 she won the Junior Singles British Championship.
She competed eight times in the singles event at Wimbledon, reaching the ...
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Phoebe Holcroft Watson,
Dorothy Round
Dorothy Edith Round (13 July 1909 – 12 November 1982), was a British tennis player who was active from the late 1920s until 1950. She achieved her major successes in the 1930s. She won the singles title at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937, and the ...
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Anita Lizana
Anita Lizana de Ellis (19 November 1915 – 21 August 1994) was a world No. 1 tennis player from Chile. She was the first Latin American, and first Hispanic person, to be ranked World Number 1 tennis player. Also, Lizana was the first Latin Am ...
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Angela Mortimer,
Anne Haydon and
Corinne Molesworth
Corinne Molesworth (born 18 June 1949) is a former tennis player from the United Kingdom who was active in the 1960s and 70s.
In 1967 she became the junior singles champion at the French Championships.
Her best performance at a Grand Slam tourna ...
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References
{{Bio-Strath Circuit
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom
Clay court tennis tournaments
Sport in Birmingham, West Midlands