Wembley Championships

The indoor tournament of Wembley ( Wembley officially Championship, also known under various sponsor names, last Benson & Hedges Championships ) is a former men's tennis tournament, which was played from 1934 to 1990 in London's Wembley. The event was organized tournament at Wembley Arena, which was named 1934-1978 Wembley Empire Pool. Each host was played on indoor carpet surfaces.

History

The tournament was before 1968 a professional tournament and among these one of the most respected. Together with the French Pro Championships in Paris and the U.S. in various locations in the U.S., it was one of the three " professional Grand Slam tournaments," the Professional World Singles tournaments Pro Tennis Championships. After 1968, in the Open Era of course it lost this status, but from 1970 was part of the Grand Prix Tennis Circuit, the precursor of the ATP World Tour. Within this tour, it was from 1970 to 1984 part of the Grand Prix Championship Series, comparable to today's ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Series. In 1990 the tournament was still part of the ATP Tour before the tournament was discontinued after more than fifty years. The Wembley Championships were a very prestigious event in professional tennis and can have with Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors real legends of tennis in the winners list.

Record winner of the tournament are Ken Rosewall and Rod Laver, who both won the tournament six times in the 60s; Rosewall holds the record with five titles in the professional era. In the doubles competition, which was held in 1970, John McEnroe was the most successful. He won a total of six times with different partners the doubles competition, five of them with his standard doubles partner Peter Fleming.

List of winners

Singles

The status of a Wembley Championships of 1936 and 1938 is unclear. These tournaments are not specified in all sources, is also remarkable that the British press did not report precisely in these years about the tournaments. It could be that it has simply been only two matches between Nüsslein and Vines and Tilden.

Doubles

Pictures of Wembley Championships

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