The South Florida Open Championships also known as the South Florida Championships or South Florida Open was an international men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1922. The tournament was first played in Miami, Florida , United States . From 1946 this tournament also carried the joint denomination of West Palm Beach Open . The tournament was played at other locations until 1977 when it was discontinued as part of the ILTF Independent Tour .
3-665: The South Florida Championships was a combined men's and women's clay court tournament first established in February 1922 and played in Miami, Florida, United States. The inaugural singles winners were Fritz Bastian (men's) and Martha Floyd (women's). The tournament was part regional USLTA Southern Circuit . In 1954 a second edition of the men's event was held in Fort Lauderdale called the South Florida Fall Championships that
6-618: The Canadian player Harry Fritz (men's), the American player Bunny Smith (women's) (incomplete roll) (incomplete roll) Included: Fritz Bastian Frederick Ellison "Fritz" Bastian (February 11, 1898 – February 28, 1944) was an American tennis player. He was born February 11, 1898, Indianapolis , Indiana . Bastian, a one-time runner-up in the National Junior tennis championship, won singles titles in 1917 and 1919 at
9-637: Was won by The tournament was held in Miami , Miami Beach , Palm Beach Punta Gorda , West Palm Beach . The fall championships were played in Fort Lauderdale . The championships ran annually until 1977 when they discontinued from the ILTF Independent Tour , a series of worldwide tournaments not part of the men's Grand Prix Circuit or women's the WTA Tour . The final winners of the singles events were
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