page_title: World Hard Court Championships
section_title: Champions
hierarchical_section_title: World Hard Court Championships / Champions
caption_attribution_description: English: 1913 World Hard Court Championships tennis tournament played on clay court at Stade Français, Paris. Match shown is the ladies final between Mieken Rieck and Marguerite Brocquedis (6–4, 3–6, 6–4).
context_page_description: World Hard Court Championships was an annual major tennis tournament held from 1912 to 1923, principally in Paris, France. The venue was the clay courts of the Stade Français in Saint-Cloud, Paris, with one exception, when they were held at the Royal Leopold Club in Brussels, Belgium, in 1922.
  It was open to all international amateur players from all nationalities, unlike the French Championships, which were open only to tennis players who were members of clubs in France through 1924; because of this the World Hard Court Championships is sometimes considered as the proper precursor to the French Open. The French Championships were also held at a different venue at the time, the Racing Club de France, Paris.
  At an annual general meeting held on 16 March 1923 in Paris, France the International Lawn Tennis Federation issued the ‘Rules of Tennis’ that were adopted with public effect on 1 January 1924. The United States became an affiliated member of the International Lawn Tennis Federation.
caption: 1913 World Hard Court Championships ladies' final between Mieken Rieck and Marguerite Brocquedis (15 June 1913)
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