Tennis Ireland

Tennis Ireland is the governing body for Tennis for the whole of Ireland with responsibilities for clubs and competitions. Tennis Ireland is divided into four Branches corresponding to the four provinces of Ireland with its national headquarters located on the campus of Dublin City University

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Gottfried von Cramm (Germany) and C.S. Rogers (Ireland) at a Davis Cup match, June, 1932 in Berlin

History

Tennis Ireland was formed in 1908 as the Irish Lawn Tennis Association, a federation of 14 Irish tennis clubs. It became independent of the Lawn Tennis Association following the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Competitions

• Davis Cup
• Fed Cup

Famous winners of the Irish Open

Billy Jean Moffitt (later King) at the Irish Open at Fitzwilliam LTC, Dublin in the 1960s

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Ladies

• Lottie Dod - 1887
• Blanche Bingley Hillyard - 1888, 1894, 1897
• Elizabeth Ryan - 1919-1921, 1923
• Jadwiga Jędrzejowska - 1932
• Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling - 1934
• Helen Wills Moody - 1938
• Alice Marble - 1939
• Louise Brough Clapp - 1946
• Maureen Connolly Brinker - 1952, 1954
• Angela Mortimer - 1953
• Ann Haydon Jones - 1961
• Billie Jean King - 1963, 1969
• Maria Bueno - 1964, 1965
• Margaret Court - 1966, 1968, 1971, 1973
• Virginia Wade - 1970
• Evonne Goolagong Cawley - 1972

Men's

• Allan Davidson - 1945
• Rod Laver - 1962
• Greg Rusedski - 1993, 1994, 1996

Clubs

• Claremont Railway Tennis Club

See also

• Sport in Ireland
• Irish Open

External links

• The Shelbourne Irish Open
• Tennis Ireland
• Tennis Ireland - Ulster Branch
• Fed Cup Current Rankings