Surrey Championships

Surrey Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name	Surrey Championships (1890–67) Surrey Grass Court Championships (1968–80)
Tour	Grand Prix circuit (1968–1975, 1979–1980)
Founded	1890
Abolished	1981
Editions	72
Surface	Grass court

The Surrey Championships also known as the Surrey Grass Court Championships and the Surrey County Championships is a defunct tennis tournament played in Surbiton, Surrey, England on outdoor Grass court's it ran for 73 editions from 1890 to 1981 and after period of 18 years re-emerged as the Surbiton Trophy.

The Surrey Championships were first staged in 1890 and was an amateur tournament until the open era of tennis considered an important warm up event to the Wimbledon championships and the first big opener of the grass court season it attracted many former British and foreign Grand Slam champions post open era the tournament was part of the men's Grand Prix Tour in 1974 and from 1979 to 1980 during the 1975 Championships the tournament witnessed the longest single game in tennis history, during a match between Keith Glass and Anthony Fawcett the game was not timed but it contained 37 deuces. the men's championships moved to a northern venue in 1981. In 1997 the tournament was first revived as an exhibition tournament won by Jason Stoltenberg. then in 1998 the former Surrey Championships was restored with a new name known as the Surbiton Trophy.

Notes: Challenge Round: The Final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921) in some tournaments not all. (c) Indicates challenger

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