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{{Infobox tennis tournament
|name =Kilkenny County and City Open
|type = Defunct
|event name =
|tour =
|founded ={{start date and age|df=yes|1882}}
|ended = {{end date and age|df=yes|1920}}
|location =Archersfield, [[Kilkenny]], [[County Kilkenny]], [[Ireland]]
|venue =Kilkenny County and City Lawn Tennis Club
|surface = [[Grass court|Grass]]
|website =
}}
The '''Kilkenny County and City Open'''<ref>{{cite news |title=KILKENNY LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. The final Kilkenny County and City Open tournament of the Kilkenny County and City Lawn Tennis Club was brought to a close today.|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002909/19200717/067/0004 |access-date=29 April 2023 |work=Carlow Sentinel |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=17 July 1920 |location=Carlow, Republic of Ireland |page=4|url-access=subscription}}</ref>  was an open grass court tennis tournament founded in 1882 as the  '''County Kilkenny Tournament'''<ref>{{cite news |title=LAWN TENNIS. FIXTURES. OPEN EVENTS JUNE |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002525/18830616/110/0019 |access-date=29 April 2023 |work=Sporting Gazette |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=16 June 1883 |location=London, England |page=16|url-access=subscription}}</ref>  at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. In 1884 the event was renamed as the '''Kilkenny County and City Tournament'''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rouse |first1=Paul |title=Cahill, Mabel Esmonde |journal=Dictionary of Irish Biography |date=1 October 2009 |doi=10.3318/dib.001365.v3 |url=https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.001365.v3 |access-date=29 April 2023 |publisher=Royal Irish Academy |language=en}}</ref> The tournament ran until 1920.
==History==
The County Kilkenny Tournament was a late 19th century tennis event first staged in 1882 at Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland.<ref name="auto">Nieuwland, Alex (2011–2022).[https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/?t=3198&n=County%20Kilkenny https://www.tennisarchives.com/tournament/County Kilkenny.]. search tournament by name. Tennis Archives. Netherlands.</ref>  By 1884 the tournament was renamed as the Kilkenny County and City Tournament,<ref name="Dictionary of Irish Biography">Dictionary of Irish Biography</ref> and was held at the Kilkenny County and City Lawn Tennis Club, Archersfield, Kilkenny.<ref name="Carlow Sentinel">Carlow Sentinel</ref> The held up to 1920 when it was called the Kilkenny County and City Open.<ref name="Carlow Sentinel"/>
This tournament was predominantly an Irish affair, featuring notable Irish players such as [[Ernest Browne]], [[Grainger Chaytor]], [[May Langrishe]] and [[Mabel Cahill]] and English players such as [[Alfred Beamish]], [[Jack Hillyard]] and [[Mabel Parton]].
==Finals==
===Men's Singles===
(Incomplete roll)
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! style="width:60px;"|Year
! style="width:200px;"|Winners
! style="width:230px;"|Runners-up
! style="width:120px;"|Score
|-
|1882<ref>{{cite news |title=LAWN TENNIS. KILKENNY LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT AND CHAMPIONSHIP |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18820801/037/0004 |access-date=29 April 2023 |work=Dublin Daily Express |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=1 August 1882 |location=Dublin, Republic of Ireland |page=4|url-access=subscription}}</ref>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Michael Gallwey McNamara]]||{{flagicon|GBR}} [[George Montague Butterworth]]||6-3, 6–3, 6-2
|-
|1885<ref>{{cite news |title=KILKENNY LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001384/18850612/046/0003 |access-date=29 April 2023 |work=Dublin Daily Express |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=12 June 1885 |location=Dublin, Republic of Ireland |page=3|url-access=subscription}}</ref>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Tom Campion]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} Charles Henry Chaytor||6-4, 6-3
|-
|1886<ref>{{cite news |title=LAWN TENNIS. KILKENNY COUNTY AND CITY OPEN TOURNAMENT. The annual Open Tournament in connection with the Kilkenny County and City Club concluded on Friday the winners results were as follows.|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002909/18860724/061/0003 |access-date=29 April 2023 |work=Carlow Sentinel |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=24 July 1886 |location=Carlow, Republic of Ireland |page=|url-access=subscription}}</ref>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Ernest Browne]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Willoughby Hamilton]]||6-4, 4–6, 6–3.
|-
|1887||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Grainger Chaytor]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} Francis Slade-Gully||6-1, 6-1<ref name="auto"/>
|-
|1890||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Manliffe Francis Goodbody]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Toler Roberts Garvey]]||6-4, 6-4
|-
|1908<ref>{{cite news |title=KILKENNY COUNTY AND CITY LAWN TENNIS CLUB |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002957/19080815/043/0002 |access-date=29 April 2023 |work=Kilkenny Moderator |publisher=British Newspaper Archive |date=15 August 1908 |location=Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland |page=2|url-access=subscription}}</ref>||{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Alfred Beamish]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Louis Meldon]]||6-2, 3–6, 7-5
|-
|1920<ref name="Carlow Sentinel"/>||{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Jack Hillyard]] ||{{flagicon|IRE}} [[D'Arcy McCrea]]||6-2, 1–6, 6-3
|-
|}
===Women's Singles===
(Incomplete roll)
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! style="width:60px;"|Year
! style="width:200px;"|Winners
! style="width:200px;"|Runners-up
! style="width:140px;"|Score
|-
|1882<ref name="Dublin Daily Express">Dublin Daily Express</ref>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[May Langrishe]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Beatrice Langrishe]]||?
|-
|1883||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[May Langrishe]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Mary Lysaght ]]||6-1, 6–2, 6-0
|-
|1884<ref name="Dictionary of Irish Biography"/>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Mabel Cahill]]||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[May Langrishe]]||6-4, 6-4
|-
|1885<ref name="Dublin Daily Express"/>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[May Langrishe]] ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} Miss Neville||6-1, 6–8, 6-4
|-
|1886<ref name="Carlow Sentinel"/>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Mabel Cahill]]||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Beatrice Langrishe]]||7-5, 6–2, 6-4
|-
|1887||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Jennie Power]]||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} E. McCheane ||6-8, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2, 7-5
|-
|1908<ref>Kilkenny Moderator</ref>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}}  [[Ruth Dyas Durlacher]]||{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Mabel Parton]] ||6-4, 4–6, 6-2
|-
|1920<ref name="Carlow Sentinel"/>||{{flagicon|IRE}} [[Hilda Wallis]]||{{flagicon|IRE}} [[Phoebe Blair-White]]||6-2, 7-5
|-
|}
===Mix Doubles===
(Incomplete roll)
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! style="width:60px;"|Year
! style="width:200px;"|Winners
! style="width:200px;"|Runners-up
! style="width:160px;"|Score
|-
|1885<ref name="Dublin Daily Express"/>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} Francis R. Swayne <br/>{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Mabel Cahill]]||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} R.P. Hamilton<br />{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Adela Langrishe]]||8-6, 8–6, 3–6, 3–6, 9-7
|-
|1886 <ref name="Carlow Sentinel"/>||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Ernest Browne]] <br/>{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[May Langrishe]]||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} Francis R. Swayne <br/>{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} [[Mabel Cahill]]||6-1, 6–1, 6-1
|-
|1887<ref>Tennis Archives</ref> ||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} R. Plunkett-Greene<br/>{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} Miss Rotheram||{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} Francis Slade-Gully<br/>{{flagicon|Ireland|1783}} A.F. Gregory||6-4, 3–6, 6-2
|-
|}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Grass court tennis tournaments]]
[[Category:Tennis tournaments in Ireland]]
[[Category:Defunct tennis tournaments in the Republic of Ireland]]
[[Category:Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom]]