The River Plate Championships or Campeonatos del Río de la Plata, formally named River Plate International Tennis Championships[1] or Campeonatos Internacionales de Tenis del Río de la Plata, were men's and women's tournaments founded in 1893 as the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club Open.
The River Plate Championships were the most important international tennis tournaments to be held in Argentina and Latin America,[4] preceding the Argentina International Championships by 34 years in men's competitions and by 25 years in women's competitions.
The event consisted only of the championship match and it was won by the Argentine player Frank Murray Still, who beat fellow Argentine player Thomas Vesey Melville Knox.
The last champion was Argentina's José Luis Clerc, who beat New Zealand's Chris Lewis in the 1978 finale.
[5] The last champion was the American player Caroline Stoll, who beat Argentina's Emilse Raponi de Longo in the 1978 finale.