The Baden Baden International ^[1] also known as the Baden-Baden ^[2] tennis tournament and the Baden Baden Invitational was a tennis event held from 1896 through 1966 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on outdoor Clay courts.

History

The Baden Baden tournament was first held in 1896 played at the Baden Baden Lawn Tennis Club (today called the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club),^[3] Baden-Baden, Germany the tournament fluctuated between July, August, and September over the course of its run the tournament survived for 55 years with various breaks due to the first and second world wars.

Finals

Notes: Challenge round: The final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921) ^[4] in some tournaments not all.

Men's singles

(Incomplete roll)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1896	Reginald Doherty	Victor Voss	6–1, 7–5, 6–2
1897	Reginald Doherty (2)	Laurence Doherty	walkover
1904	Otto Froitzheim	George Ball-Greene	6–1, 3–6, 9–7
1905	George Ball-Greene	Anthony Wilding	walkover
1906 [5]	Anthony Wilding	George Ball-Greene	6–1, 6–2, 6–1
1907 [6]	Anthony Wilding (2)	Otto Froitzheim	6–3, 6–2, 6–3
1908 [7]	Anthony Wilding (3)	Otto Froitzheim	6–4, 6–3, 6–4
1909	Otto Froitzheim	Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe	walkover
1910	Oscar Kreuzer (2)	Otto Froitzheim	4–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–1, 4-2 ret
1914–1919	Not held (due to world war one)
1924	Otto Froitzheim (3)	Oscar Kreuzer	7–5, 6–2, 7–5
1925	Johann Philip Buss	Otto Reuter	6–1, 10–8, 6–4
1926	Johann Philip Buss (2)	Hector Fisher	7–5, 6–2, 6–2
1927	Otto Froitzheim (4)	Pat Hughes	6–2, 6–2, 6–2
1928	Otto Froitzheim (5)	Erik Worm	7–5, 6–4, 6–0
1929	René de Buzelet	Otto Froitzheim	6–2, 0–6, 2–6, 6–3, ret
1930	Pat Hughes	Otto Froitzheim	2–6, 8–6, ret
1931	Tournament abandoned due to rain
1932	Jacques Brugnon	Pat Hughes	6–3, 6–2, 6–4
1933	Gottfried von Cramm	Louis Haensch	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
1934	Marcel Bernard	Johann Philip Buss	6–3, 6–4
1935	Fritz Kuhlmann	Henner Henkel	4–6, 5–7, 6–2, 6–3, 7–5
1936	Henner Henkel	Adam Borowski	5–7, 6–2, 7–5, 2–6, 7–5
1937	Bernard Destremau	?	?
1938–1949	Not held (partly due to world war two)
1950	Jaroslav Drobný	Heraldo Weiss	6–1, 6–1
1951	Jaroslav Drobný (2)	Sven Davidson	2–6 6–2 6–4 6–2
1952	Jaroslav Drobný (3)	Eric Sturgess	1–6 6–0 6–2
1953	Jaroslav Drobný (4)	Lennart Bergelin	7–5, 4–6, 6–4
1954	Jaroslav Drobný[8] (5)	Giuseppe Merlo	9–11, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–2
1955 [9]	Budge Patty	Fausto Gardini	6–1, 8–6, 6–1
1956 [10]	Jacques Brichant	Budge Patty	6–2, 6–2
1957	Giuseppe Merlo	Rupert Huber	6–3, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4
1958	Sven Davidson	Jacques Brichant	6–2. 6–2
1959	Wolfgang Stuck	Billy Knight	6–3, 6–3, 9–9, ret
1960	Luis Ayala	Torben Ulrich	6–2, 6–4
1961	Manuel Santana	Luis Ayala	10–8, 4–6, 6–3
1962	Neale Fraser	Fred Stolle	6–1, 6–4
1963	Roy Emerson	José Edison Mandarino	6–3, 9–7. 7–5
1964 [11]	Manuel Santana (2)	Ronald Barnes	6–3, 6–3
1965 [12]	Christian Kuhnke	Tony Roche	3–6, 6–1, 6–3
1966	Ken Fletcher	John Newcombe	3–6, 6–3, 6–1

Women's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1896 [13]	Elsie Lane	? Miss Zographo	6–1, 6–0
1897	Blanche Bingley Hillyard	Charlotte Cooper	6–2, 6–4
1905	Elsie Lane (2)	? Lucie Bergmann	6–4, 6–4
1906	Dorothea Douglass	Toupie Lowther	6–4, 6–4
1907	Daisy Kercheval-Hole	Hedwig Neresheimer	6–4, 6–3
1908	Dagmar von Krohn	Marie Bertrand Amende	6–2, 6–0
1909	Agnes Morton	Dagmar von Krohn	6–3, 6–2
1910	Agnes Morton (2)	Hedwig Neresheimer	6–4 6–3
1913	Lilly Salin	Anita Heimann Lent	6–0, 7–5
1914–1919	Not held (due to world war one)
1921	Ilse Friedleben	Frau von Udermann	?
1924	Ilse Friedleben (2)	?	?
1925	Irma Kallmeyer	Erika de Lacroix	?
1926	Ilse Friedleben (3)	Irma Kallmeyer	6–1, 6–3
1927	Irma Kallmeyer	Anna Weihermann Hemp	6–8, 6–4, 7–5
1928	Ilse Friedleben (4)	Irma Kallmeyer	6–1, 6–2
1929	Simonne Mathieu	Ilse Friedleben	7–5, 6–2
1930	Simonne Mathieu (2)	Ilse Friedleben	6–2, 7–5
1931	Ilse Friedleben (5)	Paula von Reznicek	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
1932	Lolette Payot	Paula von Reznicek	4–6, 8–6, 6–3
1933	Toni M. Schomburgk	Klara Hammer	2–6, 6–1, 6–2
1935	Marie-Louise Horn	Anne Peitz Schneide	6–4, 6–1
1937	Irmgard Rost	Gisela Enger	6–4, 6–3
1938	Totta Zehden	Gisela Enger	6–1, 6–3
1940	Hilde Weihe	Fraulein Rduch	walkover
1941–1949	Not held (partly due to world war two)
1950	Dorothy Head	Mary Terán de Weiss	7–5, 7–5
1951	Mary Terán de Weiss	Mrs Karel Kozeluh	2–6 6–2 6–4 6–2
1952	Joy Gannon Mottram	Joan Curry	?
1953	Joy Gannon Mottram (2)	Dorothy Head Knode	9–7, 1–6, 10–8
1954	Joy Gannon Mottram (3)	Edda Buding	6–1, 6–1
1957	Yola Ramírez	Edda Buding	6–2, 6–1
1958	Angela Mortimer	Edda Buding	5–7, 6–3, 8–6
1959	Edda Buding	Erika Obst Launert	6–4, 7–5
1960	Angela Mortimer	Yola Ramírez	4–6, 6–2, 6–2
1961	Elizabeth Starkie	Margot Dittmeyer	6–3, 1–6, 6–0
1962	Maria Bueno	Renée Schuurman	2–6, 6–4, 6–3
1963	Norma Baylon	Annette Van Zyl	6–2, 2–6, 6–2
1964 [14]	Maria Bueno (2)	Norma Baylon	6–3, 4–6, 6–4
1965 [15]	Margaret Smith	Lesley Turner	6–2, 6–1
1966	Helga Schultze	Helga Niessen	6–3, 3–6, 7–5

See also

• History of tennis

Notes

References

• Lawn Tennis and Badminton Magazines, 1896–1901, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd., London, UK.
• Lawn Tennis and Croquet Magazines, 1901–1920, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd., London, UK.
• Tennis:Cultural History, Gillmeister, Heiner, A&C Black, 1998, ISBN 9780718501952.

External links

• TennisBase Baden Baden roll of honour