The tournament is currently branded as the Clarke & Humel Manly Seaside Championships (for sponsorship reasons).

The championships were part of the worldwide senior ILTF Circuit through till 1982, and was not held in 1983[6] before the event was downgraded on the tour in 1984.

[7] Since then the event has increased in size and featuring several hundred participants annually, and played across several venues throughout the Northern Beaches.

[9] Australian tennis players including Ken Rosewall, Frank Sedgman, John Bromwich, Lew Hoad, Neale Fraser, Rod Laver, Fred Stolle, Joan Hartigan, Beryl Penrose, Margaret Smith, Evonne Goolagong, Christine O’Neil and Dianne Fromholtz have won the Seaside Championships.

[10] Notable foreign players who have won this event included; Thomas Pollok Brown,[11] Osamu Ishiguro, Manuel Santana,[12] Althea Gibson, Angela Mortimer, Zsofia Golopencza,[13] and Lizaan du Plessis.