Prince's Club Championships

The Prince's Club Championships also known as the Prince's Club tournament was an outdoor grass court tennis tournament held in London during the first half of the 1880s.

The Prince's Club[2] was one of the earliest lawn tennis locations when the sport was introduced in the mid-1870s.

The club had two lawn tennis courts and organised open and handicap events.

When the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), in its capacity as the governing body for rackets and real tennis, issued the first unified rules for lawn tennis on 29 May 1875 they were not universally adhered to and, among others, the Prince's Club stuck to playing on rectangular courts instead of the prescribed hourglass-shaped courts.

[4] Herbert Lawford won the title for a second time in 1883 the open event only lasted 4 years.