World Hard Court Championships

The Hard World Championships (English World Hardcourt Championships ) was a tennis tournament from 1912 to 1923 in Paris - was held - with the exception of 1922 in Brussels.

History

The orientation of the first World Championships on Hard Court was largely due to the American Duane Williams. This 1911 contacted representatives of the French sports association UFSPA, and it was agreed to host the first edition of the international tournament in Paris in June of the following year. The French Championships were at that time only members of local tennis clubs reserved.

Duane was also a driving force behind the founding of the International Tennis Federation in 1913, where the establishment of two more world championships was decided. Turf World Championships ( Wimbledon Championships ) and the World Indoor Championships. The American Tennis Association USNLTA did not want to accept that so that his U.S. Championships were declared a second-rate tournament, and therefore refused to join the ITF. Duane himself experienced neither the first holding of the tournament or in the creation of the ITF; he died in April 1912 in the sinking of the Titanic.

In the period following the hard-court world championships were held, interrupted by World War I in Paris Stade Français. 1922 joined the tournament site shortly after Brussels on the Royal Leopold Club's facility. The next year, has been dropped, the system of three World Cups with the accession of the United States to the ITF and instead brought the championships of England, France, Australia and the United States to the rank of highest Championships. The Hard World Championships were in 1925 in the French international championships.

Winner

Men's Singles

Women's Singles

Men's doubles

Women Doubles

Mixed

Swell

  • World Hardcourt Championships. tennisarchives.com, accessed on 21 November 2012 ( English).
  • Tingay, L.: The Guinness book of tennis fact & feats. Guinness Superlatives, London 1983, ISBN 0-85112-289-2, p 231
  • Gillmeister, H.: Cultural history of tennis. Willhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2618- X, pp. 240
  • Collins, B.: History of tennis. 2nd edition. New Chapter Press, New York, 2010. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0, p 15

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