# Baden Baden International

The Baden Baden International also known as the Baden-Baden tennis tournament and the Baden Baden Invitational was a tennis event held from 1896 through 1966 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on outdoor Clay courts.

## History

The Baden Baden tournament was first held in 1896 played at the Baden Baden Lawn Tennis Club (today called the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club), Baden-Baden, Germany the tournament fluctuated between July, August, and September over the course of its run the tournament survived for 55 years with various breaks due to the first and second world wars.

## Finals

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.

### Men's singles

(Incomplete roll)
| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
| 1896 | Reginald Doherty | Victor Voss | 6–1, 7–5, 6–2 |
| 1897 | Reginald Doherty (2) | Laurence Doherty | walkover |
| 1904 | Otto Froitzheim | George Ball-Greene | 6–1, 3–6, 9–7 |
| 1905 | George Ball-Greene | Anthony Wilding | walkover |
| 1906 | Anthony Wilding | George Ball-Greene | 6–1, 6–2, 6–1 |
| 1907 | Anthony Wilding (2) | Otto Froitzheim | 6–3, 6–2, 6–3 |
| 1908 | Anthony Wilding (3) | Otto Froitzheim | 6–4, 6–3, 6–4 |
| 1909 | Otto Froitzheim | Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe | walkover |
| 1910 | Oscar Kreuzer (2) | Otto Froitzheim | 4–6, 4–6, 6–4, 6–1, 4-2 ret |
| 1914–1919 | Not held (due to world war one) | Not held (due to world war one) | Not held (due to world war one) |
| 1924 | Otto Froitzheim (3) | Oscar Kreuzer | 7–5, 6–2, 7–5 |
| 1925 | Johann Philip Buss | Otto Reuter | 6–1, 10–8, 6–4 |
| 1926 | Johann Philip Buss (2) | Hector Fisher | 7–5, 6–2, 6–2 |
| 1927 | Otto Froitzheim (4) | Pat Hughes | 6–2, 6–2, 6–2 |
| 1928 | Otto Froitzheim (5) | Erik Worm | 7–5, 6–4, 6–0 |
| 1929 | René de Buzelet | Otto Froitzheim | 6–2, 0–6, 2–6, 6–3, ret |
| 1930 | Pat Hughes | Otto Froitzheim | 2–6, 8–6, ret |
| 1931 | Tournament abandoned due to rain | Tournament abandoned due to rain | Tournament abandoned due to rain |
| 1932 | Jacques Brugnon | Pat Hughes | 6–3, 6–2, 6–4 |
| 1933 | Gottfried von Cramm | Louis Haensch | 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
| 1934 | Marcel Bernard | Johann Philip Buss | 6–3, 6–4 |
| 1935 | Fritz Kuhlmann | Henner Henkel | 4–6, 5–7, 6–2, 6–3, 7–5 |
| 1936 | Henner Henkel | Adam Borowski | 5–7, 6–2, 7–5, 2–6, 7–5 |
| 1937 | Bernard Destremau | ? | ? |
| 1938–1949 | Not held (partly due to world war two) | Not held (partly due to world war two) | Not held (partly due to world war two) |
| 1950 | Jaroslav Drobný | Heraldo Weiss | 6–1, 6–1 |
| 1951 | Jaroslav Drobný (2) | Sven Davidson | 2–6 6–2 6–4 6–2 |
| 1952 | Jaroslav Drobný (3) | Eric Sturgess | 1–6 6–0 6–2 |
| 1953 | Jaroslav Drobný (4) | Lennart Bergelin | 7–5, 4–6, 6–4 |
| 1954 | Jaroslav Drobný (5) | Giuseppe Merlo | 9–11, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–2 |
| 1955 | Budge Patty | Fausto Gardini | 6–1, 8–6, 6–1 |
| 1956 | Jacques Brichant | Budge Patty | 6–2, 6–2 |
| 1957 | Giuseppe Merlo | Rupert Huber | 6–3, 5–7, 6–4, 2–6, 6–4 |
| 1958 | Sven Davidson | Jacques Brichant | 6–2. 6–2 |
| 1959 | Wolfgang Stuck | Billy Knight | 6–3, 6–3, 9–9, ret |
| 1960 | Luis Ayala | Torben Ulrich | 6–2, 6–4 |
| 1961 | Manuel Santana | Luis Ayala | 10–8, 4–6, 6–3 |
| 1962 | Neale Fraser | Fred Stolle | 6–1, 6–4 |
| 1963 | Roy Emerson | José Edison Mandarino | 6–3, 9–7. 7–5 |
| 1964 | Manuel Santana (2) | Ronald Barnes | 6–3, 6–3 |
| 1965 | Christian Kuhnke | Tony Roche | 3–6, 6–1, 6–3 |
| 1966 | Ken Fletcher | John Newcombe | 3–6, 6–3, 6–1 |

### Women's singles

(incomplete roll)
| Year | Champions | Runners-up | Score |
| 1896 | Elsie Lane | ? Miss Zographo | 6–1, 6–0 |
| 1897 | Blanche Bingley Hillyard | Charlotte Cooper | 6–2, 6–4 |
| 1905 | Elsie Lane (2) | ? Lucie Bergmann | 6–4, 6–4 |
| 1906 | Dorothea Douglass | Toupie Lowther | 6–4, 6–4 |
| 1907 | Daisy Kercheval-Hole | Hedwig Neresheimer | 6–4, 6–3 |
| 1908 | Dagmar von Krohn | Marie Bertrand Amende | 6–2, 6–0 |
| 1909 | Agnes Morton | Dagmar von Krohn | 6–3, 6–2 |
| 1910 | Agnes Morton (2) | Hedwig Neresheimer | 6–4 6–3 |
| 1913 | Lilly Salin | Anita Heimann Lent | 6–0, 7–5 |
| 1914–1919 | Not held (due to world war one) | Not held (due to world war one) | Not held (due to world war one) |
| 1921 | Ilse Friedleben | Frau von Udermann | ? |
| 1924 | Ilse Friedleben (2) | ? | ? |
| 1925 | Irma Kallmeyer | Erika de Lacroix | ? |
| 1926 | Ilse Friedleben (3) | Irma Kallmeyer | 6–1, 6–3 |
| 1927 | Irma Kallmeyer | Anna Weihermann Hemp | 6–8, 6–4, 7–5 |
| 1928 | Ilse Friedleben (4) | Irma Kallmeyer | 6–1, 6–2 |
| 1929 | Simonne Mathieu | Ilse Friedleben | 7–5, 6–2 |
| 1930 | Simonne Mathieu (2) | Ilse Friedleben | 6–2, 7–5 |
| 1931 | Ilse Friedleben (5) | Paula von Reznicek | 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 |
| 1932 | Lolette Payot | Paula von Reznicek | 4–6, 8–6, 6–3 |
| 1933 | Toni M. Schomburgk | Klara Hammer | 2–6, 6–1, 6–2 |
| 1935 | Marie-Louise Horn | Anne Peitz Schneide | 6–4, 6–1 |
| 1937 | Irmgard Rost | Gisela Enger | 6–4, 6–3 |
| 1938 | Totta Zehden | Gisela Enger | 6–1, 6–3 |
| 1940 | Hilde Weihe | Fraulein Rduch | walkover |
| 1941–1949 | Not held (partly due to world war two) | Not held (partly due to world war two) | Not held (partly due to world war two) |
| 1950 | Dorothy Head | Mary Terán de Weiss | 7–5, 7–5 |
| 1951 | Mary Terán de Weiss | Mrs Karel Kozeluh | 2–6 6–2 6–4 6–2 |
| 1952 | Joy Gannon Mottram | Joan Curry | ? |
| 1953 | Joy Gannon Mottram (2) | Dorothy Head Knode | 9–7, 1–6, 10–8 |
| 1954 | Joy Gannon Mottram (3) | Edda Buding | 6–1, 6–1 |
| 1957 | Yola Ramírez | Edda Buding | 6–2, 6–1 |
| 1958 | Angela Mortimer | Edda Buding | 5–7, 6–3, 8–6 |
| 1959 | Edda Buding | Erika Obst Launert | 6–4, 7–5 |
| 1960 | Angela Mortimer | Yola Ramírez | 4–6, 6–2, 6–2 |
| 1961 | Elizabeth Starkie | Margot Dittmeyer | 6–3, 1–6, 6–0 |
| 1962 | Maria Bueno | Renée Schuurman | 2–6, 6–4, 6–3 |
| 1963 | Norma Baylon | Annette Van Zyl | 6–2, 2–6, 6–2 |
| 1964 | Maria Bueno (2) | Norma Baylon | 6–3, 4–6, 6–4 |
| 1965 | Margaret Smith | Lesley Turner | 6–2, 6–1 |
| 1966 | Helga Schultze | Helga Niessen | 6–3, 3–6, 7–5 |