Highland Championships

The Highland Championships (informally called the Scottish Highland Championships) was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament first established in 1896 as part of the Atholl Hydropathic Open Lawn Tennis Tournament.

[2] The championships were first held at the Athole Hydropathic tennis courts, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

[4] It was part of the Scottish Lawn Tennis Association (SLTA) circuit from inception.

That year, 14-year-old Judith Erskine (future mother of grand slam champion Andy Murray) won all three titles of the Bell's Junior Championship of the Highlands.

In 1874, the Perthshire architect, Andrew Heiton was commissioned to design a Scottish baronial-style hydropathic establishment, with accommodation.