1905 Australasian Championships
{{TennisEventInfo|1905|Australasian Championships|
| edition=1st
| location=Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| venue=Warehouseman's Cricket Ground
| surface=Grass
| champs={{flagicon|AUS|1903}} Rodney Heath
| champd={{flagicon|UKGBI}} Randolph Lycett / {{flagicon|AUS|1903}} Tom Tachell
}}
The 1905 Australasian Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts in Melbourne, Australia, at the Warehouseman's Cricket Ground. The tournament took place from 21 NovemberGame, Set and Glory. A History of the Australian Tennis Championships page 4 by Bruce Matthews : " ... the Australasian tennis championships were born ... on Tuesday, 21 November 1905." to 25 November 1905. It was the inaugural edition of the Australasian Championships and consisted of a men's singles and men's doubles competition. The men's singles event had a field of 17 players and was won by Australian Rodney Heath.{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Bud|title=The Bud Collins History of Tennis|year=2010|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0942257700|edition=2nd|page=355}}
Finals
=Singles=
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{{flagicon|AUS|1903}} Rodney Heath defeated {{flagicon|AUS|1903}} Albert Curtis, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–4 {{Cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nd1jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MZEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7242,6122532|title=Inter-state Tennis. Australasian Championship.|newspaper=The Age|date=November 27, 1905|accessdate=February 23, 2011}}
=Doubles=
{{flagicon|UKGBI}} Randolph Lycett / {{flagicon|AUS|1903}} Tom Tachell defeated {{flagicon|AUS|1903}} E.T. Barnard / {{flagicon|AUS|1903}} Basil Spence, 11–9, 8–6, 1–6, 4–6, 6–1 {{Cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GO9hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1pEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5413,1009832|title=Australasian Lawn Tennis Championships.|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=November 27, 1905|accessdate=February 23, 2011}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100918071711/http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/index.html Australian Open Official website]
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