Wembley Championship
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The Wembley Championship was a tennis event held from 1934–1990 with some periods of inactivity in between. It was held at the Wembley Arena.
Prior to the Open era, the Wembley Championship was the most prestigious professional tennis competition, after the United States Professional Championship and French Professional Championship Until 1967, the Wembley Championship was considered the professional world championship. See: Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era
These three tournaments until 1967 are referred as the professional Grand Slam tournaments by tennis historians as Robert Geist in "DER GRÖSSTE MEISTER Die denkwürdige Karriere des australischen Tennisspielers Kenneth Robert Rosewall" or Raymond Lee in his "Greatest Player of All time: A Statistical Analysis" article [1].
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The tournament was called the "London Indoor Professional Championships" from 1951 through 1967. In 1968, it was called the "Kramer Tournament of Champions." From 1969 through 1971, the tournament was called the "British Covered Court Championships." Finally, it was called the "Benson & Hedges Tournament" beginning in 1976.
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*The status of the Wembley Championships of 1936 and 1938 is unclear. Two of the three major sources for the professional championships list the results as shown below. Ray Bowers' History of professional tennis says that neither of these tournaments ever occurred and offers substantiating evidence for his assertion.
