Bad Neuenahr International

Bad Neuenahr International
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded	1909; 116 years ago (1909)
Abolished	1978; 47 years ago (1978)
Location	Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
Venue	HTC Bad Neuenahr
Surface	Clay (outdoors)

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]

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 Herberg	6–3, 6–3, 6–1.[8]
1913[8]	Claus Herberg	Wilhelm Gisbert Groos	6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1915/1919	Not 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 Kuhlmann	6–2, 11–9, 5–7, 6–2
1926[8]	Erwin Statz	Herr Claus	6–0, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2
1927[8]	Cornelis Albert Bryan[9]	Otto Froitzheim	8–6 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 Ota	6–4, 6–4, 7–5
1930[8]	Eberhard Nourney	Ludmar Heitmann	6–2, 6–4, 6–2
1931[8]	Eberhard Nourney (2)	Heinz Remmert	5–7, 6–1, 6–1, 6–0
1932[8]	C.Rudolf Strauss	Karl Heinz Kretzer	8–6, 1–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–1
1933[8]	Helmut Sindern	Josef Hirtz	7–5, 0–6, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5
1934[8]	Eberhard Nourney (3)	Erwin Statz	2–0, ret.
1935[8]	Eberhard Nourney (4)	Edgar Dettmer[11]	7-5, 7-5, 6-0
1936[8]	Fritz Kuhlmann	Edgar Dettmer	2–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–3, 6–0
1937[8]	Edmund Bartkowiak	Harald Richter	6–1, 6–2, 6–0
1938[8]	Edmund Bartkowiak (2)	Ludmar Heitmann	6–2, 6–1, 6–1
1939[8]	Helmut Gulcz	Ernst Buchholz	6–1, 4–6, 6–1, 9–7
1940-48	Not held (due to World War II)
1949[8]	Engelbert Koch	Ernst Buchholz	6–4, 6–0, 6–2
1950[8]	Ernst Buchholz	Dilip Bose	13–11, 6–3, 6–3
1951[8]	Wladyslaw Skonecki	Ernst Buchholz	4–6, 6–1, ret.
1952[1]	Tony Mottram	Ian Ayre	6–0, 6–3, 6–1
1953[1]	Gottfried von Cramm	Ernst Buchholz	4–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–3
1954[1]	Tony Mottram (2)	Ernst Buchholz	7–5, 6–0
1955[1]	Hugh Stewart	Malcolm Fox	6–2, 6–2
1956[1]	Gordon Forbes	Ladislav Legenstein	3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 8–6
1957[1]	Jaroslav Drobný	Pierre Darmon	6–1, 6–8, 6–4
1958[1]	Ramanathan Krishnan	Carlos Fernandes	3–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–1, 6–2
1959[1]	Patricio Rodriguez	Ernst Buchholz	6–2, 7–5, 6–3
1960[1]	Peter Scholl	Carlos Fernandes	4–6, 6–2, 6–1
1961[1]	Rod Laver	Luis Ayala	6–3, 4–6, 6–3
1962[1]	Neale Fraser	Ingo Buding	6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1963[1]	István Gulyás	Martin Mulligan	6–3, 4–6, 9–7, 6–0
1964[1]	José Edison Mandarino	Boro Jovanović	6–1, 8–6, 6–4
1965[1]	Attila Korpás	Lothar Pawlik	4–6, 8–6, 6–4
1966[1]	Attila Korpás (2)	Horst Guenther Klameth	6–2, 8–6, 6–0
1967[1]	Wilhelm Bungert	Harald Elschenbroich	2–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–4
1968[1]	Koji Watanabe	István Gulyás	6–4, 6–8, 6–4
↓  Open era  ↓
1969[1]	Martin Mulligan	Wilhelm Bungert	6–3, 3–6, 13–11, 6–2
↓  ILTF Independent Circuit  ↓
1970[1]	Attila Korpás (3)	István Gulyás	?
1971[1]	Christian Kuhnke	Attila Korpás	7–5, 6–1, 8–10, 6–2
1972[1]	Karl Meiler	Attila Korpás	6–3, 6–3, 6–1
1973[1]	Alex Kurucz	Hans-Joachim Plötz	shared title
1974[1]	Harald Elschenbroich	Jan Kukal	5–7, 6–2, 6–0, 7–6
1975[1]	Szabolcs Baranyi	Jan Kukal	6–4, 2–0, ret.
1976[1]	Peter Elter	Werner Zirngibl	6–1, 1–0, ret.
1977[1]	Patrick Proisy	Jürgen Fassbender	6–3, 6–1
1978[1]	Jürgen Fassbender	Buster Mottram	6–3, 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 Loë	8–6, 4–6, 7–5
1912	G. Schell	M. Kaubes	6–1, 3–6, 6–2
1915/1919	Not held (due to World War I)
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1924	Fräulein Lutzmann	Frau Suschen Rütten	6–4, 6–3, 6–3
1925	Fräulein Lutzmann (2)	Lidda Neumerkel	3–6, 7–5, 6–1, 6–2
1926	Fräulein Lutzmann (3)	Frau Suschen Rütten	6-1, 6-1, 6-3
1928	Madzy Rollin Couquerque	Margaretha Canters	5–7. 6–1 abandoned
1929	Ilse Friedleben	Hilde Krahwinkel	6–0, 6–0
1931	Ilse Friedleben (2)	Klara Hammer	4–6, 6–3, 6–1
1935	Lisa Fabian	Erna Reimann	6–1, 4–6, 6–4
1936	Lisa Fabian	Ingeborg Schumann	3–6, 6–3, 6–2
1937	Margarathe Käppel	Irmgard Rost	6–3, 6–0
1938	Fräulein ten Elsen	Fräulein Rduch	8–6, 6–6, retd
1940-48	Not held (due to World War II)
1952	Joy Gannon Mottram	Beryl Penrose	6–1, 6–2
1953	Joy Gannon Mottram (2)	Helena Matouš	6–1, 6–3
1954	Joy Gannon Mottram (3)	Edda Buding	6–2, 6–1
1957	Angela Mortimer	Patricia Ward	6-1 8-6
1958	Ilse Buding	Rita Bentley	6–4, 6–4
1959	Patricia Ward	Norma Baylon	4–6, 7–5, 7–5
1961	Sandra Reynolds	Renée Schuurman	6–3, 6–1
1962	Renée Schuurman	Heide Schildknecht	6–2, 6–1
1964	Elizabeth Starkie	Faye Toyne	6–1, 6–2
1967	Helga Schultze	Susanne Korpas	6–2, 6–1
↓  Open era  ↓
1969	Helga Schultze-Hosl (2)	Helga Niessen	5–7, 7–5, 6–4

References

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