The Wolverhampton Open[1] was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1897 as the Wolverhampton Lawn Tennis Tournament.
In 1903 a second tournament was revived and played in Newbridge, in Wolverhampton, where it ran until 1974.
[8] Notable winners of the men's singles title included; Sydney Howard Smith, Cam Malfroy, George Lyttleton-Rogers, Claude Lister, Tony Pickard, Bill Hoogs Jr., Frew McMillan, and Andrew Pattison.
[9] Winners of the women's singles title included; Phoebe Holcroft Watson, Dorothy Holman, Rita Bentley, Angela Mortimer, Ann Haydon Jones, Faye Toyne, Mary Habicht, Kerry Melville and Valerie Ziegenfuss.
The Albert Lawn Tennis Club was founded at Parkdale, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire around 1894.