The Italian Riviera Championships[1] also known as the San Remo International [2] was a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1903 at San Remo, Liguria, Northern Italy.
The Italian Riviera Championships (San Remo) [3] were established in 1903.
The championships were on regularly occasions the opening event at the start of the Italian clay court season.
Former winners of the men's singles included; Major Ritchie (1903), Anthony Wilding (1908, 1912), Erik Worm (1927, 1930), Jean Lesueur (1931, 1933–1934), Gottfried von Cramm (1940), Dick Savitt (1951) Jaroslav Drobný (1955), and Nicola Pietrangeli (1960, 1963).
The women's single was previously won by Dorothy Holman (1925), Elizabeth Ryan (1924, 1928), Lucia Valerio (1929, 1932), Pauline Betz (1947), Doris Hart (1951) Shirley Bloomer (1955), and Almut Sturm (1964).