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The Chingford Open or Chingford Open Championships and also called the Connaught Open Lawn Tennis Tournament, was a men's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1888. The tournament was organised by the Connaught Club and played in
Chingford Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The centre of Chingford is north-east of Charing Cross, with Waltham Abbey to the north, Woodford Green and Buckhurst Hill to the east, Walt ...
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Essex Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
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and was held annually until 1892 as part of the
LTA Circuit The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man founded in 1888. The LTA promotes all levels of lawn tennis. The organization believes tennis can provide ...
when it was discontinued.


History

The Connaught Club was originally founded as a tennis and croquet club in 1885 as part of the facilities of the Royal Forest Hotel in what was then Essex (now London). In November 1888 the club had just opened its new hard courts (clay) and staged the first edition of the Chingford Open, The men's singles final was supposed to be between
Herbert Chipp Herbert Chipp (4 January 1850 – 25 August 1903) was an English tennis player. He was a Wimbledon singles and doubles semi finalist and won four career titles. He later became Honorary Secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association. Career Chipp pla ...
and
Ernest George Meers Ernest George Meers (1849 – 20 August 1928) was an English tennis player, organist and gum merchant. Biography Meers was born in Kingsnorth, near Ashford, Kent. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Queen's College, Oxford and was later chairma ...
but he withdrew before the final,
Ernest Wool Lewis Ernest Lewis may refer to: * Ernest Lewis (tennis) Ernest Wool Lewis (5 April 1867 – 19 April 1930) was a British lawn tennis player who was active at the end of the 19th century. He twice won the Irish Championships in 1890 and 1891, and w ...
who lost in the all comers final took his place Meers won the title in three sets. The event (though separate) was held in conjunction with the
Essex Championships The Essex Championships also known as the Essex County Lawn Tennis Championships or Essex Grass Court Championships was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament established in 1881 at Brentwood, Essex. In 1946 it was moved to the ...
Eastern Mercury for the years 1888 and 1889, and was co-valid as that event in 1891. The final edition was held in 1892 with the winner of the men's singles being Arthur Gore.


Finals


Men's singles

(incomplete roll)


See also

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Connaught Hard Court Championships Connacht or Connaught ( ; or ), is the smallest of the four provinces of Ireland, situated in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, ...
held at the Connught Club (1951–1974) *
Essex Championships The Essex Championships also known as the Essex County Lawn Tennis Championships or Essex Grass Court Championships was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament established in 1881 at Brentwood, Essex. In 1946 it was moved to the ...
held at the Connught Club (1888–1889, 1892–1893)


References

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External links


The Connaught Club
Clay court tennis tournaments Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom