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Riviera Championships 1908

General Date1908-03-02 - 1908-03-09
Tournament typeAmateur
SurfaceClay
Rounds4
CityMenton
CountryFrance

Source Alan Little: The Golden days of Tennis on the French Riviera 1874-1939, Ayres 1909, Lawn tennis, 19/3/1908

Info There were just three courts at this venue at this point in time. Much interrupted due to rain.

Report Mens doubles final: Ritchie/Simond def. Wilding/Wallis Myers 6-2 3-6 6-2 8-6

Mixed doubles final: Rosamund Salusbury (GB)/Major Ritchie (GB) def. Maud Dillon (GB)/Evan Gwynne Evans (GB) 6-0 6-4

Media

Winner Player Major Josiah George Ritchie

Players

Walter Scott Andrews
Baron Hubert Pierre Marie Joseph Bertoult
Conway William Blackwood Price
Ferdinand Boelling (Bölling)
Edward Hedley Cuthbertson
Comte G. Dru

Leslie Leopold Rudolph Hausburg
A.G. Hobson
Charles Harold Hole
Robert Harry Hotham
Major Josiah George Ritchie
Réginald Frédéric Beaufoy Storms

Anthony Frederick (Tony) Wilding
Sir Ernest Salter Wills
Fernand Eugène Victor Zambaux

Rounds
Round 1

Tony Wilding*
Réginald Storms

6-3 6-4

Sir Ernest Salter Wills*
A.G. Hobson

6-3 6-4

Walter Scott Andrews*
Ferdinand Boelling (Bölling)

6-4 6-4

Robert Harry Hotham*
Edward Hedley Cuthbertson

6-4 6-0

Conway William Blackwood Price*
Fernand Eugène Victor Zambaux

6-0 6-2

Leslie Leopold Rudolph Hausburg*
Charles Harold Hole

6-1 6-4

Major Josiah George Ritchie*
Comte G. Dru

w.o.

Quarterfinals

Tony Wilding*
Sir Ernest Salter Wills

6-1 6-3

Walter Scott Andrews*
Robert Harry Hotham

4-6 6-1 6-4

Conway William Blackwood Price*
Leslie Leopold Rudolph Hausburg

w.o.

Major Josiah George Ritchie*
Hubert de Bertoult

6-0 6-0

Semifinals

Tony Wilding*
Walter Scott Andrews

6-3 6-2

Major Josiah George Ritchie*
Conway William Blackwood Price