Nice International Winter Championships

The Nice International Winter Championships ^[1] or Championnats Internationaux d'Hiver de Nice was a men's and women's tennis tournament founded in 1922 as the Nice Lawn Tennis Club Winter Cup^[2] also known as the Parc Imperial Winter Tournament or Nice Winter Tournament. It was organised by the Nice Lawn Tennis Club , Nice, France and played on clay courts until 1974 as part of the ILTF Independent Circuit.^[2]

The tournament was founded in 1922 as the Nice Lawn Tennis Club Winter Cup.^[2] The tournament was usually played in February, though occasionally staged the first week of March. Following World War II the tournament was branded as the Nice International Winter Championships and informally called the Parc Imperial Winter Tournament.^[2] The tournament was part of French Riviera circuit until 1942 a sub tennis circuit of the ILTF European Circuit itself part of the ILTF World Circuit when it became part of the ILTF Independent Circuit (tournaments not part of the ILTF Grand Prix Circuit or WTA Tour) from 1973 through to 1974 when it was discontinued.^[2]

(incomplete roll)

Nice LTC Winter Cup
Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1922	Mikhail Sumarokov-Elston	Alain Gerbault	6–1, 6–3, 6–4.[2]
1926	Jacques Brugnon	George Lyttleton Rogers	6–2, 6–0, 6–2.[2]
1932	Charles Aeschlimann	Vladimir Landau	1–6, 7–5, 6–3, 2–6, 6–3.[2]
1933	George Lyttleton Rogers	Jean Rouillot	6–3, 6–3, 4–6, 6–3.[2]
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1947	Budge Patty	Alexandre-Athenase Noghès	6–2, 6–2.[2]
1950	Pierre Paccard	George Scherbatoff	6–3, 7–5.[2]
1951	Georges Pasquier	Franz Weisz	10–8, 0–6, 6–1.[2]
1953	John Horn	Anthony (Tony) Starte[3]	6–4, 0–6, 6–4.[2]
1954	Pat Molloy	Philip Wooldridge	6–2, 7–9, 6–4.[2]
1957	Jan Foldina	Gordon Mudge	6–3, 7–5.[2]
1959	Hernando Salas[4]	Yuri Shcherbakov	6–2, 6–1.[2]
1961	Charles (Charlie) Applewhaite[5]	Trevor Adamson[6]	6–0, 3–6, 6–1.[2]
1962	Oscar Ebner	Jean Paul Frances	6–2, 3–6, 6–4.[2]
1963	Oscar Ebner (2)	Robert Sherman[7]	2–6, 6–1, 8–6.[2]
1965	Gerald Battrick	David Lloyd	9–7, 6–1.[2]
1966	Geoff Bluett	John Crump	6–3, 6–2.[2]
1967	Bernd Kube[8]	Daniel Moreau	6–3, 6–2.[2]
1968	Roy Den Hoed	Jacques Jaujou	6–4, 6–3.[2]
↓  Open era  ↓
1970	Jean-François Caujolle	Bernard Tapin	6–4, 6–3.[2]
↓  ILTF Independent Circuit  ↓
1974	Patrice Beust	Christophe Casa	6–2, 6–2.[2]

(incomplete roll)

Parc Imperial/Nice Winter Tournament
Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
↓  ILTF World Circuit  ↓
1922	Molly Smailes	Jessie Tripp	6–3, 3–6, 6–2
1923	Suzanne Lenglen	Elizabeth Ryan	default
1924	Suzanne Lenglen (2)	Dorothy Shepherd Barron	6–0, 6–1
1925	Suzanne Lenglen (3)	Margaret Tripp	6–0, 6–1
1926	Suzanne Lenglen (4)	Jeanne Franke	6–1, 6–3
1927	Eileen Bennett	Betty Nuthall	6–3, 6–2
1928	Elizabeth Ryan	Eileen Bennett	6–4, 6–2
1932	Simonne Mathieu	Colette Rosambert	6–3, 6–3
1933	Sheila Hewitt	Muriel Thomas	6–4, 6–3
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1946	Alice Weiwers	Yvonne Vincart	6–4, 6–2
1955	Shirley Bloomer	Pat Ward	6–1, 6–0
1961	Elizabeth Starkie	Nicole Broccardo	6–1, 6–1
1965	Jacqueline Rees-Lewis	Winnie Shaw	6–0, 6–0
1966	Jacqueline Rees-Lewis (2)	Denise Magnan	6–1, 6–1
1967	Jacqueline Rees-Lewis Vives (3)	C. Leca	6–1, 6–3
↓  Open era  ↓
1970	Pam Austin	Marilyn Greenwood	6–4, 6–3
1971	Katja Ebbinghaus	Odile de Roubin	8–6, 6–4