Tournament

Armagh

The Armagh Championship Tournament or Armagh ALTC Championship was a combined men's and women's Hard court tennis tournament staged first staged on 28 September 1878 as the Armagh Lawn Tennis Tournament at the Archery and Lawn Tennis Club, Armagh, Northern Ireland. The championship was staged up to at least 1934.

History

This tournament was particularly unique, not for it just being a hard court event, it also staged combined events for men and women in both singles, doubles and mixed doubles. However they were not all held at the same time the events were spread out over a three-month period, being played July through to October.

At the inaugural 1878 tournament only a men's singles event was played, that was won by Walter Francis Templer, the brother of Robert Baron Templer.

On 27 July 1882, the Armagh LTC Tournament was concluded that featured a women's singles, doubles and mixed soubles event. The women's singles was won by Miss J M McLintock. The women's doubles event was won by Miss. G McLintock and Miss J M Mclintock, and the mixed double's was won by Major Dashwood and Miss J M Mclintock. In October 1882 a second Armagh LTC Tournament was held for the men's singles event that was held won by Robert Barron Templer.

In 1884 only a Handicap tournament was played.

The tournament continued to staged throughout the 1880s and 1890s. The tournament continued to be held throughout the 1920s, and into the early 1930s which by this point it was known as the Armagh Championship Tournament.

Source: Wikipedia