Indoor tennis world championships

Indoor tennis world championships
First run	1913
Last event	1923
Tournament type	Indoor tournament
Was standing:

The indoor tennis world championships ( english World Covered Court Championships ) was a tennis tournament, which were held from 1913 to 1923 in various European cities.

history

In 1913 with the founding of the International Tennis Federation decided to introduce three world championships in tennis: the lawn World Championships ( Wimbledon Championships ), the World Hard Court Championships (in Paris , forerunner of the French Open ) and the World Indoor Championships. The American tennis association USNLTA did not want to accept that this would make its US championships a second-rate tournament and therefore declined to join the ITF.

In the period that followed, the World Indoor Championships were held in various European cities, interrupted by the First World War . As was common in the hall at that time, the surface of the square was a wooden floor. In 1923, when the USA joined the ITF, the system of three world championships was dropped and instead the championships of England (Wimbledon Championships), France, Australia and the USA were elevated to the rank of top championships. The indoor championships have been discontinued.

Venues

year	place	Period
1913	Stockholm	2nd-8th November
1919	Sporting Club , Paris	15-23 November
1920	Queen's Club , London	11-20 October
1921	Kjøbenhavns Boldklub , Copenhagen	2nd - 10th April
1922	St. Moritz	16.-25. February
1923	Palacio de la Industria , Barcelona	1. – 11. February

winner

Men's singles

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
1913	Anthony Wilding	Maurice Germot	5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 3, 6: 1
1914–1918: not held
1919	André Gobert	Max Décugis	6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 2
1920	Gordon Lowe	Walter Cecil Crawley	6: 2, 6: 3, 6: 1
1921	William Laurentz	Alfred Ernest Beamish	6: 2, 6: 4, 6: 2
1922	Henri Cochet	Jean Borotra	4: 6, 2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 0
1923	Henri Cochet	Brian Gilbert	6: 4, 7: 5, 6: 4

Ladies singles

year	Winner	Final opponent	Result
1913	Helen Aitchison Leisk	Katie Gillou-Fenwick	6: 4, 6: 2
1914–1918: not held
1919	Dorothy Holman	Germaine Regnier Golding	6: 3, 6: 4
1920	Winifred Beamish	Kathleen McKane Godfree	6: 2, 5: 7, 9: 7
1921	Elsebeth Brehm Jorgensen	Ebba Meyer	6: 2, 6: 4
1922	Germaine Regnier Golding	Jeanne Vaussard	6: 2, 7: 5
1923	Kathleen McKane Godfree	Winifred Beamish	6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 2

Men's doubles

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
1913	Max Décugis Maurice Germot	Curt Bergmann Heinrich Kleinschroth	7: 5, 2: 6, 9: 7, 6: 3, 6: 1
1914–1918: not held
1919	Andre Gobert William Laurentz	Nicolae Misu H. Portlock	6: 1, 6: 0, 6: 2
1920	Percival Davson Theodore Mavrogordato	Alfred Beamish Francis Fisher	4: 6, 10: 8, 13:11, 3: 6, 6: 3
1921	Maurice Germot William Laurentz	Paul Henricksen Erik Tegner	6: 3, 6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3
1922	Henri Cochet Jean Borotra	C. Martin AC Simon	2: 6, 6: 2, 6: 1, 6: 4
1923	Henri Cochet Jean Couiteas	Leif Rovsing Erik Tegner	6: 1, 6: 1, 7: 5

Ladies doubles

year	Winners	Final opponents	Result
1913–1918: not held
1919	Winifred Beamish Kathleen McKane Godfree	Dorothy Holman Phyllis Covell	6: 3, 6: 4
1920	Winifred Beamish Kathleen McKane Godfree	Doris Craddock Irene Peacock	6: 3, 7: 5
1921	Elsebeth Brehm Jorgenson Ebba Meyer	Sheenberg	6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 2
1922	Germaine Regnier Golding Jeanne Vaussard	Yvonne Bourgeois Canivet	Where
1923	Winifred Beamish Kathleen McKane Godfree	Germaine Regnier Golding Jeanne Vaussard	6: 1, 6: 1

Mixed

year	winner	Final opponent	Result
1913	Max Décugis Katie Gillou-Fenwick	Gunnar Setterwall Sigrid Frenckell Fick	7: 5, 12:10
1914–1918: not held
1919	Max Décugis Winifred Beamish	William Laurentz Germaine Regnier Golding	6: 3, 6: 3
1920	Francis Fisher Irene Peacock	Stanley Doust Kathleen McKane Godfree	Where
1921	Erik Tegner Elsbeth Brehm	Harald Thune Waagepetersen Agnete Goldschmidt	6: 2, 6: 2
1922	Jean Borotra Germaine Regnier Golding	Max Décugis Jeanne Vaussard	6: 3, 6: 4
1923	Walter Cecil Crawley Kathleen McKane Godfree	Brian Gilbert Winifred Beamish	4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3

swell

• World Covered Court Championships. tennisarchives.com, accessed on November 20, 2012 (English). 
• H. Gillmeister: cultural history of tennis. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-7705-2618-X , p. 240.
• B. Collins: History of Tennis. 2nd Edition. New Chapter Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 , p. 15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Back then, “hard court” was understood to mean a sand court