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Mar del Plata Championships

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Mar del Plata Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Event nameMar del Plata Championships
Founded1930
Abolished1966
LocationTemperley, Buenos Aires, Argentina
VenueTemperley Lawn Tennis Club
SurfaceClay / outdoor

The Mar del Plata Championships[1] was a combined clay court tennis tournament founded in 1936. It was Temperley Lawn Tennis Club (founded 1920),[2] Temperley, Buenos Aires, Argentina until 1946 as part of the ILTF South America Circuit when it was discontinued.

It was the percussor tournament to the later Mar del Plata Invitation later called the Mar del Plata Open.

Results[edit]

Men's Singles[edit]

(incomplete roll)

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1930 United Kingdom Fred Perry Argentina Guillermo Robson 6–2, 7–5, 6–2
1936 Argentina Américo Cattaruzza Argentina Adelmar Echeverria 6–0, 6–1, 6–0
1939 Ecuador Pancho Segura Argentina Roberto Clutterbuck 6–1, 6–1, 6–0
1946 Argentina Carlos Morea Brazil Armando Vieira 6–3, 6–3, 6–2
1966 Italy Nicola Pietrangeli Australia Martin Mulligan 6–1, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2

References[edit]

  1. ^ American Lawn Tennis. New York: United States Lawn Tennis Association. 1944. p. 8.
  2. ^ "Historia del Club". TLTC (in Spanish). Temperley Lawn Tennis Club. Retrieved 20 June 2024.