Madrid International

Madrid International
Defunct tennis tournament
Event nameMadrid Championships (1906-1934)
Puerta de Hierro International (1950-1964)
Championships of Madrid (1965)
Madrid Puerta de Hierro International (1966-1969)
Madrid International (1970-1975)
TourILTF World Circuit
Founded1906
Abolished1975
LocationMadrid
Spain
VenueReal Club Puerta de Hierro
SurfaceClay / outdoors

The Madrid International[1] was a combined clay court tennis tournament founded in 1906,[2] as the Madrid Championships, that event was held intermittently until the early 1930s then ended due to the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1950 the event was revived as the Madrid Puerta de Hierro International[3] and was played continually at the Real Club Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain, until 1975 when it was last branded under its last title name.

  1. ^ "Tennis - Madrid - Madrid International". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 May 1970. p. 10. Retrieved 27 January 2025 – via Google News Archive.
  2. ^ "Tournament - Search - Madrid (Puerta de Hierro)". Tennis Archives. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Rain Delays Spanish Tennis". The Age. 28 April 1962. p. 11. Retrieved 27 January 2025 – via Google News Archive.

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