The Westchester County Championships[1] was a tennis tournament founded in 1885 as the Westchester Lawn Tennis Club (Invitation) [2] and first played at the Westchester Lawn Tennis Club, Harrison, Westchester County, New York, United States on grass courts, later switching to clay courts, the finally hard courts.
[1] In September 1885 it staged the Westchester Invitation men's singles tennis tournament that event ran until 1895 when it was discontinued when the lawn tennis club was disbanded.
In 1902 a new tournament was revived as a men's doubles event called the Westchester Invitation Round Robin.
[4][5][6] In 1912 the tournament moved to Mount Vernon, New York and was organized by the Westchester Lawn Tennis Association.
[7] During the 1950s when played in Rye, New York the men's event was known as the Westchester Bowl Invitation.