FMTC documentation of Women’s Tennis Championships begins, finally

For inexplicable reasons, the list of winners in women’s tournaments begins twenty-nine years after the list of those in men’s matches. There seems to have been no official record of a Club championship in women’s tennis until after World War II.

Between 1923 and 1931 The Scarsdale Inquirer mentions four women who won tournaments: Muriel Bray (1923), Mrs. Stuart Cowan (1926), Mrs. J.T. Hall (1929), and Caroline Atkinson (1931). They may have been winners in the traditional Women’s Invitational, a week-long event held annually for at least two decades.

Astonishing as it may seem, the first documented Women’s Singles and Doubles Club championships were not played until 1948, or sixty years into the Club’s history