The Homburg Cup

The Homburg Cup ^[1] or Der Homburg-Pokal its original name was a tennis event held from 1894 through 1936 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany on outdoor Clay court's.

The Homburg Cup tournament was first held in 1894 played at the Bad Homburg Tennis Club, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany and usually August. The Homburg Cup was organised by the 1st President of the German Tennis Federation, Carl August von der Meden, the early staging of this event attracted some of the most well known aristocracy in Europe such as the, Emperor of Germany, Crown Prince of Greece, and the Duke of Cambridge numerous other aristocrats appeared every year which generated significant press coverage for the event, prize money that was on offer was said to be substantial at the time which was probably why it was considered one of the most important ^[2] and prestigious ^[3] early pre-open era tournaments in continental Europe and Germany along with German Championships known then for its ability to attract the best players in the world throughout its early period certainly up to the beginning of World War I. It was an open event and featured the likes of the Arthur Gore, Anthony Wilding, Joshua Pim Laurence and Reginald Doherty, A Harold Mahony and Max Décugis its lasted 41 years until 1935 the event featured men's doubles,^[4] women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles ^[5] competition.

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) in some tournaments not all. * Indicates challenger

(Incomplete list)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1894	Samuel Henry Hughes	?	?
1895 [6]	William M. Cranston	Reginald Forbes	6-0, 6-3, 6-1
1896 [7]	Reginald Doherty	William M. Cranston	walkover
1897 [8]	Reginald Doherty (2)	George Hillyard	walkover
1898 [9]	Reginald Doherty (3)	Laurence Doherty	walkover
1899	Reginald Doherty (4)	Clarence Hobart	3-6, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4
1900 [10]	Laurence Doherty	George Hillyard[11]	7-5, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2
1901 [12]	Max Decugis	Jacques Worth	walkover
1902 [13]	Josiah Ritchie	Frederick William Payn	6-3, 6-1, 6-4
1903	George Ball-Greene	Josiah Ritchie	7-5, 7-5, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3
1904	George Ball-Greene[14] (2)	Wylie Cameron Grant	9-7, 6-2, 6-3
1905	George Ball-Greene (3)	Anthony Wilding	shared title
1906	Anthony Wilding[15] (2)	Otto Froitzheim	6-1, 6-1, 6-4
1907 [16]	Otto Froitzheim	Anthony Wilding	6-4, 6-2, 6-3
1908 [17]	Otto Froitzheim (2)	Anthony Wilding	6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6
1909	Otto Froitzheim (3)	Josiah Ritchie	6-4, 5-7, 6-1, 4-6, 7-5
1910	Heinrich Kleinschroth	Heinrich Schomburgk	5-7, 6-4, 6-0, 6-3
1911	Otto Froitzheim (4)	Heinrich Schomburgk	1-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
1912	Oscar Kreuzer	Gordon Lowe	6-4, 1-6, 3-6, 6-0, 8-6
1913	Otto Froitzheim (5)	Paul Otto Lindpaintner	6-1, 6-2
1914/1918	Not held (due to World War I)
1919	Otto Froitzheim (6)	Oscar Kreuzer	6-3, 6-1, 6-1
1920	Otto Froitzheim (7)	Oscar Kreuzer	6-1, 6-3, 6-3
1921	Oscar Kreuzer (2)	Heinrich Kleinschroth	6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
1925	Willi Hannemann	Otto Froitzheim	4-6, 7-5, ret.
1926	Axel Petersen	Otto Froitzheim	w.o.
1927	Georg T. W. Demasius	Otto Froitzheim	w.o.
1928	Axel Petersen (2)	Johann Philip Buss	2-6, 6-1, 6-3, ret.
1929	Christian Boussus	Otto Froitzheim	w.o.
1930	Harry Hopman	Christian Boussus	2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 0-6, 6-4
1931	Roderich Menzel	Fritz Kuhlmann Sr	6-1, 6-1, 4-6, 6-0
1932	Harry Hopman (2)	Clifford Sproule	2-6, 4-6, 6-3, 8-6, 6-3
1933/1934	Not held
1935	Werner Menzel	Fritz Kuhlmann Sr	6-1, 6-1, 4-6, 6-0
1936	John Olliff	Arnulf Schmidt	1-6, 8-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2

(Incomplete list)

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1895	Toupie Lowther	S. Pollen	6-2. 6-1
1896	Elsie Lane	Toupie Lowther	6-0, 6-2
1897	Blanche Bingley Hillyard	Charlotte Cooper	divided prizes.
1898	Elsie Lane (2)	Toupie Lowther	7-5, 7-5
1899	Charlotte Cooper	Clara von der Schulenburg	7-5. 6-4
1900	Blanche Bingley Hillyard (2)	Muriel Robb	2-6, 8-6, 7-5
1901	Toupie Lowther (2)	Blanche Duddell	6-0, 6-0
1902	Charlotte Cooper Sterry (2)	Toupie Lowther	6-2, 2-6, 6-3
1903	Toupie Lowther (3)	Clara von der Schulenburg	1-6, 6-4, 6-0
1904	Toupie Lowther (4)	Elsie Lane	6-2, 7-5
1905	Dorothea Douglass	Toupie Lowther	6-3, 7-5
1906	Dorothea Douglass (2)	Blanche Bingley Hillyard	6-4, 8-6
1907	Hedwig Neresheimer	Rosamund Salusbury	10-8, 6-3
1908	Lucie Bergmann	Miss. Stettheimer	6-2, 6-2
1909	Agnes Morton	Dagmar von Krohn	6-2, 6-2
1910	Agnes Morton (2)	Mieken Rieck	6-1, 6-4
1911	Agnes Morton (3)	Nelly Bamberger	6-2, 6-4
1912	Lilly Salin	Ilse Weihermann	6-3, 6-4
1913	Nelly Bamberger	Lilly Salin	6-3, 2-0 retd.
1914/1918	Not held (due to World War I)
1919	Ilse Friedleben	Lili de Alvarez	?
1921	Ilse Friedleben (2)	Lili de Alvarez	5-7, 8-6 retd.
1922	Ilse Friedleben (3)	Hete Käber	6-3, 6-2
1924	Ilse Friedleben (4)	Toni Weihermann	?
1925	Ilse Friedleben (5)	Cilly Aussem	6-2, 6-3
1926	Anna Weihermann Hemp	Nelly Neppach	6-4, 3-6, 3-0 retd.
1927	Ilse Friedleben	Simonne Mathieu	6-4, 3-0, retd.
1928	Toni Mettenheimer Schomburgk	Ilse Friedleben	6-4, 2-6, 6-4
1929	Toni Weihermann Richter	Ellen Hoffmann	6-1, 6-2
1930	Ilse Friedleben (6)	Hilde Krahwinkel	default
1931	Anne Peitz	Marie-Louise Horn	6-3, 7-5
1932	Hilde Krahwinkel	Marie-Louise Horn	6-1, 6-0
1933/1934	Not held
1935	Margarethe Käppel	Anne Peitz Schneider	6-4, 3-6, 7-5
1936	Anneliese Ullstein	Klara Hammer Beutter	6-4, 7-5

• Most Men's Singles Titles: Otto Froitzheim (7)
• Most Men's Finals: Otto Froitzheim (11)
• Most Women's Singles Titles: Ilse Friedleben (6)
• Most Women's Singles Finals: Ilse Friedleben & Toupie Lowther (7)

• Lawn Tennis and Badminton Magazines, 1896–1901, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd, London, UK.
• Lawn Tennis and Croquet Magazines, 1901–1920, Amateur Sports Publishing Co. Ltd, London, UK.
• Tennis:Cultural History, Gillmeister, Heiner, A&C Black, 1998, ISBN 9780718501952.

• History of tennis

• https://app.thetennisbase.com/Homburg Cup Roll of Honour