Teignmouth Open

Officially known as the Teignmouth and Shaldon Open Tournament was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament first staged in September 1880 at Lower Bitton, Teignmouth, Devon, England. During the 1880s it was a featured event of Pastime's five week end of summer 'Western Tour' taking in Exmouth, Teignmouth, Torquay, Bournemouth and Eastbourne.^[3] It was staged by the Teignmouth Lawn Tennis Club at Teignmouth, Devon, England through until 1939 when it was abolished.^[4]

Former winners of the men's singles included: Ernest Wool Lewis, Herbert Chipp, Manliffe Goodbody, William Renshaw, Wilberforce Eaves, Harry Grove, Harry Sibthorpe Barlow, Les Poidevin and Henry Billington. Previous women's singles title winners included: Maud Watson,Violet Pinckney, Alice Pickering, Kathleen Lidderdale, and Madge Slaney.

Teignmouth Lawn Tennis Club:^[5] (1880-1939) The modern-day Teignmouth Tennis Club forms part of a specialised Tennis Academy located at the Trinity School, Teignmouth.

The tournament was played predominantly on grass courts except for the 1882 to 1884 editions when it was played on hard asphalt courts.

(incomplete roll) included:^[6]

Year	Winners	Runner-up	Score
1880	Ernest Maconchy[7]	W.B. Young	?
1881	Champion Russell	Charles John Cole	?
1882	Humphrey Berkeley	Arthur John Stanley	?
1883	Arthur Stanley	Erskine Gerald Watson	6–5, 6–5, 0–6, 6–1
1884	Charles S. Wood	William Parkfield Wethered	6–1, 6–1
1885	Wilfred Milne	H.C. Kent	6–3, 6–5, 6–2
1886	Ernest Wool Lewis	Robert Charles Thompson	6–1, 6–0, 6–0
1887	Ernest Wool Lewis (2)	Wilfred Milne	6–3, 1–6, 6–2, 6–3
1888	Herbert Chipp	John Redfern Deykin	6–0, 6–1, 6–0
1889	Ernest Wool Lewis (3)	Harry Sibthorpe Barlow	6–4, 6–2, 7–5
1890	Ernest Wool Lewis (4)	Albert Francis Stoddart	6–1, 6–1
1891	Manliffe Goodbody	Horace Chapman	6–0, 0–6, 6–4
1892	Wilberforce Eaves	Charles Henry Chaytor	6–2, 6–2
1893	Harry Grove	H. Davies	6–2, 8–6
1894	William Renshaw	Horace Chapman	6–2, 6–2
1895	Harry Sibthorpe Barlow	George Ball-Greene	3–6, 6–1, 6–4
1896	Arthur Riseley	Frank Riseley	w.o.
1903	Harold Michelmore	J.S. Talbot	6–4, 6–3
1905	Harold Michelmore (2)	George Alan Thomas	6–2, 6–2
1906	Harold Michelmore (3)	J.S. Talbot	6–2, 6–4
1907	Harold Michelmore (4)	A. Dawson Jones	6–0, 6–0
1908	Les Poidevin	Harold Michelmore	6–8, 7–5, 6–4
1909	Harold Michelmore (5)	J.S. Talbot	6–4, 6–2
1910	Hugh Walter Davies	Arthur Riseley	6–0, 3–6, 6–2
1915/1919	Not held (due to world war one)
1923	Henry Alfred Carless	Charles Pyne Luck	7–5, 9–7
1931	G.R. Ashton	Freddie Della Porta	6–1, 7–9, 6–3
1932	Peter Graves	J. Desmond Morris	2–6, 4–2, ret.
1933	Leslie Erastus Cater	George Godsell	9–7, 6–4
1934	Leslie Erastus Cater (2)	Athar-Ali Fyzee	6–3, 6–4
1935	Henry Billington	Leslie Erastus Cater	2–6, 6–3, 6–0
1936	Henry Billington (2)	Herbert Amphlett Davis	6–2, 6–4
1937	Alan Stedman	Freddie Della Porta	6–1, 7–9, 6–3
1939	Ernest G. Roper	E.H. Coles	6–3, 6–0
	Abolished