The Manchester Trophy was a professional

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tournament played in the United Kingdom on outdoor

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s. It was previously part of the

ATP Challenger Tour The ATP Challenger Tour (known until the end of 2008 as the ATP Challenger Series) is a series of international men's professional tennis tournaments. It was founded in 1976 as a replacement for the ILTF Satellite Circuit (founded in 1971) as ...

and now currently part of the

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. It had been held annually at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club in the

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suburb of

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, England since 1995. The original defunct tournament, the

Manchester Open The Manchester Open previously known as the Northern Lawn Tennis Championships, the Northern Championships, the Northern Tennis Tournament and the Manchester Trophy was a grass court tennis tournament on the Association of Tennis Professionals, ...

, began in 1880 as the prestigious Northern Championships and continued until the event became a lower level Challenger tournament in 1995. The Challenger event ended in 2009, but was revived in 2015. The men's tournament was discontinued after the 2016 edition while the women's tournament was established in 2017 and ended in 2019.

Past finals

Men's singles

Women's singles

Men's doubles

Women's doubles

References

External links

The Northern Lawn Tennis Club.
Accessed: 17/09/2011.
Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) official website
{{ITF Women's Circuit ATP Challenger Tour ITF Women's World Tennis Tour Grass court tennis tournaments Sports competitions in Manchester Tennis tournaments in England