Tennis tournament
The Bad Neuenahr International or Internationale Bad Neuenahr was a combined tennis tournament founded in 1909 as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler International. It was held at HTC Bad Neuenahr, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany and played on outdoor clay courts. The tournament was discontinued in 1978.
History.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is a spa town in the German Bundesland of the Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district.
In 1882 a spa was first established in the town at Wiesenallee. Then two new lawn tennis courts were built, later further two tennis courts were built at the Kurhaus. By the early 1890s visiting wealthy spa guests and locals began to play against each other on these courts. In 1900 in order to promote tennis responsibility for staging events was down to the spa administrators.
In 1909 the first international open tennis tournaments were held and continued until 1911. The foreign participants were usually bathers taking a cure in the spa's. In 1912 the spa administration donated a "gold cup" that attracted good players from all over Europe to Neuenahr, known as the Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Gold Cup awarded to winners of the men's singles event in the international tournament. The first winner was the Belgian champion Louis Jacques Émile Trasenster. In 1920 the Hockey Tennis Club Bad Neuenahr was opened, with 14 new clay courts and the event transferred there. In 1921 the spa administration transferred the event to HTC Bad Neuenahr. The tournament was staged annually until 1978.
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