The Mashonaland Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament founded in 1949 as the Mashonaland Lawn Tennis Championships.^[1] The tournament was played Salisbury, Mashonaland, Rhodesia,^[2] and ran annually until 1979 when it was discontinued as part of the ILTF Independent Circuit.^[1]

History

In 1949 the first Mashonaland Championships were founded.^[1] The tournament was organised by the Mashonaland Lawn Tennis Board and affiliated to the Rhodesia Lawn Tennis Association.^[3] The event was played annually on outdoor clay courts. It initially ran annually as part of the ILTF African Circuit,^[4] a regional sub circuit of the ILTF World Circuit from 1949 to 1969 for men, then 1972 for women before it then became part of the ILTF Independent Circuit (those events not part of the men's ILTF Grand Prix Circuit or women's Virginia Slims Circuit until 1979 when it was abolished.^[1]

Finals

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓ ILTF World Circuit ↓
1959	Don Black	Yashvin Shretta[5]	6–4, 6–3.[1]
1964	Don Black (2)	Cliff Drysdale	6–4, 3–6, 6–2.[1]
1967	Jim McManus	Ramanathan Krishnan	6–4, 3–6, 6–4.[1]
↓  Open Era  ↓
1969	Andrew Pattison	Hank Irvine	6–3, 5–7, 6–4.[1]
↓ ILTF Independent Circuit ↓
1970	Hank Irvine	Adrian Bey	6–4, 6–4.[1]
1971	Andrew Pattison	Richard Russell	6–2, 6–2.[1]

Women's singles

(incomplete roll)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
↓ ILTF World Circuit ↓
1966	Pat Walkden	Gertruida Walhof	6–4, 4–6, 7–5
1967	Pat Walkden (2)	Frances Maclennan	6–1, 6–0
1969	Deidre Allan	Beverley Billington	6–3, 6–3
↓  Open Era  ↓
1970	Deidre Allan (2)	Jenny Waggott	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
1971	Karen Irvine	Maryna Godwin	6–4, 1–6, 6–2
1972	Marianna Brummer	Sally Hudson-Beck	7–5, 4–6, 6–2
↓ ILTF Independent Circuit ↓
1973	Sally Hudson-Beck	Deidre Paterson	6–3, 2–6, 6–3

References