# Old Dominion Championship

The Old Dominion Championship also known as the Old Dominion Open Championship was a men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1905. It was first played at the Hermitage Golf Club, Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1905. In 1936 the final edition was played Country Club of Virginia, after which when it was downgraded from the main worldwide ILTF Circuit and discontinued.

## History

In 1905 the first edition of the Old Dominion Championships staged at the Hermitage Golf Club, in Richmond, Virginia. The tournament was played annually there until 1911. In 1912 the event was then relocated to the Country Club of Virginia, also in Richmond. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts usually in late spring or early summer. During World War I in 1917 that edition was given status of a special patriotic tournament held for the benefit of the Red Cross. In 1918 the men's event was staged, but there was no women's tournament that year. It was a sanctioned event on the USNLTA Circuit from 1905 to 1923, then part of the ILTF Circuit from 1924 to 1936 when it was discontinued.

## Finals
### Men's singles

(incomplete roll)
| Year | Winners | Runners-up | Score |
| 1905 | Frederick Gresham Pollard | Charles F. McIntosh | 6–2, 8–6, 6–1. |
| 1906 | Richard Hooker | Frederick Gresham Pollard | w.o. |
| 1907 | Frederick Gresham Pollard | Richard Hooker | w.o. |
| 1908 | Robert L. James | Frederick Gresham Pollard | w.o. |
| 1909 | Richard H. Palmer | Robert L. James | 7–5, 6–3, 6–3. |
| 1910 | Richard H. Palmer (2) | Frank J. Hall | 6–3, 1–6, 6–3. |
| 1911 | Theodore Pell | Richard H. Palmer | 6–2, 4–6, 6–2, 4–6, 6–3. |
| 1912 | Nat Thornton | Theodore Pell | w.o. |
| 1914 | Theodore Pell (2) | Nat Thornton | 6–4, 6–2, 6–4. |
| 1915 | Theodore Pell (3) | Carlton Y. Smith | 6–2, 6–1, 6–3. |
| 1916 | Edward H. Whitney | Theodore Pell | w.o. |
| 1917 | William Erskine Buford | Edward H. Whitney | w.o. |
| 1919 | Ichiya Kumagae | Hugh Grigsby Whitehead | 6–0, 6–1, 6–1. |
| 1920 | Percy Lloyd Kynaston | Ichiya Kumagae | w.o. |
| 1923 | John Temple Graves Jr. | Thomas J. Mangan | 4–6, 6–2, 6–4, 5–7, 6–1. |
| 1925 | Edward Jacobs | John Temple Graves Jr. | 6–1, 6–2, 2–6, 8–6. |
| 1931 | Julius Seligson | Herbert Bowman | 6–4, 6–1, 2–6, 6–3. |
| 1932 | Herbert Bowman | Alex Keles | 6–0, 6–2, 6–2. |
| 1933 | Herbert Bowman (2) | Lorenzo Nodarse | 3–6, 6–1, 6–3, 7–5. |
| 1934 | Harold Turner MacGuffin | Alphonso Smith | 4–6, 6–1, 6–3, 7–5. |
| 1936 | Herbert Bowman (3) | Harold Turner MacGuffin | 6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–4, 4–5, ret. |

### Women's singles

(incomplete roll)
| Year | Winners | Runners-up | Score |
| 1905 | Connie Evans | Miss Tannor | 2–0 sets |
| 1906 | Connie Evans (2) | Sadie Smith | 6–1, 6–3 |
| 1907 | Connie Evans (3) | Bessie Upshur | 6–1, 6–1 |
| 1908 | Connie Evans (4) | Sophie Meredith | 6–5, 6–2 |
| 1909 | Hildegarde Turle | Connie Evans | 4–6, 6–0, 6–4 |
| 1910 | Connie Evans Sullivan (5) | Hildegarde Turle | 8–6, 6–2 |
| 1911 | Connie Evans Sullivan (6) | Sophie Meredith | 6–3, 6–0 |
| 1912 | Hildegarde Turle Taylor | Carrie Symington Hardy | 6–4, 6–2 |
| 1913 | Connie Evans Sullivan (7) | Hildegarde Turle Taylor | 6–4, 13–11 |
| 1914 | Marie Wagner | Connie Evans Sullivan | 6–2, 6–3 |
| 1915 | Florence Ballin | Elisabeth Moore | 2–6, 6–4, 6–1 |
| 1916 | Molla Bjurstedt | Florence Ballin | 6–2, 6–2 |
| 1917 | Elizabeth Warren | Penelope Anderson | 6–2, 1–6, 6–4 |
| 1918 | No women's event held | No women's event held | No women's event held |
| 1919 | Marie Wagner (2) | Elisabeth Moore | 6–3, 6–1 |
| 1920 | Marie Wagner (3) | Penelope Anderson | 6–1, 6–1 |
| 1921 | Marie Wagner (4) | Florence Ballin | 6–3, 6–1 |
| 1922 | Mrs Winifred Ellis | Elizabeth Warren | 6–2, 6–4 |
| 1923 | Penelope Anderson | Mrs Winifred Ellis | 6–2, 6–4 |
| 1925 | Miss Wakeford | Miss Heyel | 6–3, 6–4 |
| 1927 | Marion Zinderstein Jessup | Penelope Anderson | 6–3, 6–3 |
| 1930 | Penelope Anderson (3) | Mrs W. Parrish | 6–4, 6–2 |
| 1931 | Penelope Anderson (4) | Alice Deford | 6–0, 6–2 |
| 1934 | Reba Kirson | Louise Rogerson | 6–4, 6–2 |
| 1935 | Mary Cootes | Reba Kirson | 6–3, 6–4 |
| 1936 | Edith Clarke | Mary Cootes | 6–4, 6–4 |