Bad Neuenahr International

The Bad Neuenahr International or Internationale Bad Neuenahr was a combined tennis tournament founded in 1909 as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler International.[1] It was held at HTC Bad Neuenahr, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was discontinued in 1978.[1]

Bad Neuenahr International
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1909 (1909)
Abolished1978 (1978)
LocationBad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
VenueHTC Bad Neuenahr
SurfaceClay (outdoors)

History

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town[2] in the German Bundesland of the Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district.[3]

In 1882 a spa was first established in the town at Wiesenallee.[4] Then two new lawn tennis courts were built, later further two tennis courts were built at the Kurhaus.[4] By the early 1890s visiting wealthy spa guests and locals began to play against each other on these courts.[5] In 1900 in order to promote tennis responsibility for staging events was down to the spa administrators.[4]

In 1909 the first international open tennis tournaments were held and continued until 1911.[4] The foreign participants were usually bathers taking a cure in the spa's.[4] In 1912 the spa administration donated a "gold cup" that attracted good players from all over Europe to Neuenahr,[5] known as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Gold Cup awarded to winners of the men's singles event in the international tournament.[1] The first winner was the Belgian champion Louis Jacques Émile Trasenster.[1][4] In 1920 the Hockey Tennis Club Bad Neuenahr was opened,[6] with 14 new clay courts and the event transferred there. In 1921 the spa administration transferred the event to HTC Bad Neuenahr.[1][7] The tournament was staged annually until 1978.[1]

Finals

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1912[8] Louis Trasenster Claus Herberg6–3, 6–3, 6–1.[8]
1913[8] Claus Herberg Wilhelm Gisbert Groos6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1915/1919Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1920[8] Dr. A. Marcotty ? ?
1921[8] Ernst Büchting ? ?
1922[8] Frans Ludwig Hoppe Ernst Büchting ?
1924[8] Heinz C. Landmann Fritz Kuhlmann ?
1925[8] Conrad Kupsch Fritz Kuhlmann6–2, 11–9, 5–7, 6–2
1926[8] Erwin Statz Herr Claus6–0, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
1927[8] Cornelis Albert Bryan[9] Otto Froitzheim8–6 4–6 3–6 ret.
1928[8] Fritz Kuhlmann Jacques Bonte[10]6–3, 4–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
1929[8] Jacques Boussus Yoshiro Ota6–4, 6–4, 7–5
1930[8] Eberhard Nourney Ludmar Heitmann6–2, 6–4, 6–2
1931[8] Eberhard Nourney (2) Heinz Remmert5–7, 6–1, 6–1, 6–0
1932[8] C.Rudolf Strauss Karl Heinz Kretzer8–6, 1–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–1
1933[8] Helmut Sindern Josef Hirtz7–5, 0–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5
1934[8] Eberhard Nourney (3) Erwin Statz2–0, ret.
1935[8] Eberhard Nourney (4) Edgar Dettmer[11]7-5, 7-5, 6-0
1936[8] Fritz Kuhlmann Edgar Dettmer2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3, 6–0
1937[8] Edmund Bartkowiak Harald Richter6–1, 6–2, 6–0
1938[8] Edmund Bartkowiak (2) Ludmar Heitmann6–2, 6–1, 6–1
1939[8] Helmut Gulcz Ernst Buchholz6–1, 4–6, 6–1, 9–7
1940-48Not held (due to World War II)
1949[8] Engelbert Koch Ernst Buchholz6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1950[8] Ernst Buchholz Dilip Bose13–11, 6–3, 6–3
1951[8] Wladyslaw Skonecki Ernst Buchholz4–6, 6–1, ret.
1952[1] Tony Mottram Ian Ayre6–0, 6–3, 6–1
1953[1] Gottfried von Cramm Ernst Buchholz4–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–3
1954[1] Tony Mottram (2) Ernst Buchholz7–5, 6–0
1955[1] Hugh Stewart Malcolm Fox6–2, 6–2
1956[1] Gordon Forbes Ladislav Legenstein3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 8–6
1957[1] Jaroslav Drobný Pierre Darmon6–1, 6–8, 6–4
1958[1] Ramanathan Krishnan Carlos Fernandes3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
1959[1] Patricio Rodriguez Ernst Buchholz6–2, 7–5, 6–3
1960[1] Peter Scholl Carlos Fernandes4–6, 6–2, 6–1
1961[1] Rod Laver Luis Ayala6–3, 4–6, 6–3
1962[1] Neale Fraser Ingo Buding6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1963[1] István Gulyás Martin Mulligan6–3, 4–6, 9–7, 6–0
1964[1] José Edison Mandarino Boro Jovanović6–1, 8–6, 6–4
1965[1] Attila Korpás Lothar Pawlik4–6, 8–6, 6–4
1966[1] Attila Korpás (2) Horst Guenther Klameth6–2, 8–6, 6–0
1967[1] Wilhelm Bungert Harald Elschenbroich2–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–4
1968[1] Koji Watanabe István Gulyás6–4, 6–8, 6–4
↓  Open era  ↓
1969[1] Martin Mulligan Wilhelm Bungert6–3, 3–6, 13–11, 6–2
↓  ILTF Independent Circuit  ↓
1970[1] Attila Korpás (3) István Gulyás ?
1971[1] Christian Kuhnke Attila Korpás7–5, 6–1, 8–10, 6–2
1972[1] Karl Meiler Attila Korpás6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1973[1] Alex Kurucz Hans-Joachim Plötzshared title
1974[1] Harald Elschenbroich Jan Kukal5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 7–6
1975[1] Szabolcs Baranyi Jan Kukal6–4, 2–0, ret.
1976[1] Peter Elter Werner Zirngibl6–1, 1–0, ret.
1977[1] Patrick Proisy Jürgen Fassbender6–3, 6–1
1978[1] Jürgen Fassbender Buster Mottram6–3, 6–4, 1–6, 6–7, 2–1, retd.

Women' singles

(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
↓  German LTA Circuit  ↓
1911 Baroness Hedwig Loë Baroness Grete Loë8–6, 4–6, 7–5
1912 G. Schell M. Kaubes6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1915/1919Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1924 Fräulein Lutzmann Frau Suschen Rütten6–4, 6–3, 6–3
1925 Fräulein Lutzmann (2) Lidda Neumerkel3–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–2
1926 Fräulein Lutzmann (3) Frau Suschen Rütten6-1, 6-1, 6-3
1928 Madzy Rollin Couquerque Margaretha Canters5–7. 6–1 abandoned
1929 Ilse Friedleben Hilde Krahwinkel6–0, 6–0
1931 Ilse Friedleben (2) Klara Hammer4–6, 6–3, 6–1
1935 Lisa Fabian Erna Reimann6–1, 4–6, 6–4
1936 Lisa Fabian Ingeborg Schumann3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1937 Margarathe Käppel Irmgard Rost6–3, 6–0
1938 Fräulein ten Elsen Fräulein Rduch8–6, 6–6, retd
1940-48Not held (due to World War II)
1952 Joy Gannon Mottram Beryl Penrose6–1, 6–2
1953 Joy Gannon Mottram (2) Helena Matouš6–1, 6–3
1954 Joy Gannon Mottram (3) Edda Buding6–2, 6–1
1957 Angela Mortimer Patricia Ward6-1 8-6
1958 Ilse Buding Rita Bentley6–4, 6–4
1959 Patricia Ward Norma Baylon4–6, 7–5, 7–5
1961 Sandra Reynolds Renée Schuurman6–3, 6–1
1962 Renée Schuurman Heide Schildknecht6–2, 6–1
1964 Elizabeth Starkie Faye Toyne6–1, 6–2
1967 Helga Schultze Susanne Korpas6–2, 6–1
↓  Open era  ↓
1969 Helga Schultze-Hosl (2) Helga Niessen5–7, 7–5, 6–4

References
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