Lake Geneva Championships

Lake Geneva Championships Championnats du lac Léman
Defunct tennis tournament
Tour	ILTF Circuit (1913-38)
Founded	1898; 127 years ago (1898)
Abolished	1932; 93 years ago (1932)
Location	Montreux, Switzerland
Venue	Montreux Lawn Tennis Club
Surface	Clay (outdoors)

The Lake Geneva Championships[1] or Championnats du lac Léman[2] was a men's and women's open international clay court tennis tournament founded in 1898 and first staged at the Montreux Lawn Tennis Club, Montreux, Switzerland. The championships was discontinued in 1938.[3]

History

The Lake Geneva Championships[4] were staged at Montreux, Switzerland in 1898. The championships were usually held in the spring in April or May each year. The tournament continued to be staged through till 1938 when they were discontinued just before the start of World War II. The tournament sometimes carried the title of the Montreux Grand Hotel Spring Championships or Montreux Spring Meeting. The event was played exclusively at the Montreux Lawn Tennis Club founded in 1890,[5] in the grounds of the Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel, Territet.

References

1. All about Switzerland. Zurich: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen. 1933. p. 15.
2. Die Schweiz: la Suisse; la Svizzera; Switzerland (in German). Zurich Switzerland: Swiss National Tourist Office. 1967. p. 67.
3. "Tournament – Lac Léman Championships (Grand Hôtel)". www.tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
4. "THE CHATEAU OP MOLE: The Swies Lawn Tennis Association send me their fixtures list for 1910 tournaments, which comprise eighteen meetings, most of which last about a week". The Queen. London, England: British Newspaper Archive. 9 April 1910. p. 59. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
5. "LE CLUB HISTOIRE". montreux-tennis-club.ch. Montreux Tennis Club. Retrieved 3 April 2023.