County Kildare Open Tennis Championship

A County Kildare tennis tournament was first staged in 1879 at the Naas military barracks under the title the County Kildare Tournament.^[2] and was a It was a featured event of 1879 Men's Tennis tour and 1880 Men's Tennis tour. On 2 August 1880, a Colonel de Burgh called for a meeting of members of the Naas and Country Kildare Cricket club to discuss forming a country club for the purpose of providing archery, cricket, football, lawn tennis, polo, and pigeon shooting for local town residents.^[3][4]

On 1 January 1881 the County Kildare Club was formally established (later changed to Naas Lawn Tennis Club).^[5] In August 1881 the County Kildare Open Tennis Championships came into existence.^[6] In 1939 the event was won by Irish Davies Cup player George McVeagh.^[7] This tournament is still being staged today.^[8]

Notes: Challenge round: The final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921) ^[9] in some tournaments not all.

Men's singles

Included:^[2]

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Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1879 [a]	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	James G. Kennedy	4-6, 6-3, 6-2.[10]
1880 [b]	Joseph R. Rainsford	Jacob R. Sherrard	?[2][11]
1881[c]	Peter Aungier[12]	W.A. Cairnes	?[2][13]
1882[d]	Peter Aungier[14]	John William Young	6–1, 6–4, 6–3[2]
1883[e]	Peter Aungier	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	6–0, 6–3, 6–2[2][15]
1884[f]	Peter Aungier	Thomas Harrison Griffiths	6–3, 3–6, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4[2][16]
1887[g]	Algernon A. M. Aylmer	Cecil J. Cramer-Roberts	6–3, 3–6, 6–3, 6–0[2][17]
1889[h]	C. Johnson	Richard J. Hornidge	6–2, 6–4, 6–1[2]
1939	George McVeagh	George McVeagh[18]	?

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