Tournament

Cinque Ports Championships

Folkestone

The Cinque Ports Championships was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1902. The event was staged annually at Folkestone Lawn Tennis Club, Folkestone, Kent, England until 1954.

History
In 1895 the original Folkestone Lawn Tennis Club was formed. In 1902 the club established the Cinque Ports Championships. The Cinque Ports is an historical grouping of towns located in Kent and Sussex. The tournament was played annually through till 1954 when it was discontinued.

Venue
The original club had 14 grass tennis courts and situated on land between Bouverie Road and Shorncliffe Road. In 1914 and 1920 it also hosted Davis Cup matches.

TypeAmateur
CountryEngland

Editions

edition 1954 - Grass -

edition 1953 - Grass -

J. Malcolm Gracie

edition 1952 - Grass -

John W. (Peter) Cawthorn

edition 1951 - Grass -

edition 1950 - Grass -

edition 1949 - Grass -

Francis J. Wallis

edition 1948 - Grass -

edition 1947 - Grass -

edition 1939 - Grass -

Frederick (Derrick) Leyland

edition 1938 - Grass -

Derek Maxwell Bull

edition 1937 - Grass -

Chuni Lal Savara

edition 1936 - Grass -

Nigel G. Sharpe

edition 1935 - Grass -

Colin Neville Ower Ritchie

edition 1934 - Grass -

Colin Neville Ower Ritchie

edition 1933 - Grass -

Colin Neville Ower Ritchie

edition 1932 - Grass -

George E. Lyttleton-Rogers

edition 1931 - Grass -

edition 1930 - Grass -

Henry Woolf Standring

edition 1929 - Grass -

Sir John Pennycuick

edition 1928 - Grass -

Henry Woolf Standring

edition 1927 - Grass -

Sir John Pennycuick

edition 1926 - Grass -

Sir John Pennycuick

edition 1925 - Grass -

Henry Woolf Standring

edition 1924 - Grass -

Charles Herbert Kingsley

edition 1923 - Grass -

edition 1922 - Grass -

Ambrose Nevil Waddell Dudley

edition 1921 - Grass -

The Honourable Sir Cecil James Henry Mussen Campbell

edition 1920 - Grass -

Alfred Ernest Beamish

edition 1919 - Grass -

Theodore Michel Mavrogordato

edition 1910 - Grass -

Charles Percy Dixon

edition 1909 - Grass -

Charles Percy Dixon

edition 1908 - Grass -

Charles Percy Dixon

edition 1907 - Grass -

Charles Percy Dixon

edition 1906 - Grass -

Herbert Roper Barrett

edition 1905 - Grass -

Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves

edition 1904 - Grass -

Samuel Ernest (Ernest) Charlton

edition 1903 - Grass -

Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves

edition 1902 - Grass -

Turketil George Pearson Greville