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1970 local championships

Men's singles : ¼ f = Motaz Sonbol d Adnan Jamal (Leb); Khodr Issa d Samir Khoury; Ahmad Hassanein d Edouard Samuel; Ali al Daoudy d Francis Samuel; ½ f = Sonbol d K Issa 61 63 75; Daoudy d Hassanein 62 62 60; Final = Ali al Daoudy (Egypt) d Motaz Sonbol (Egypt) 64 68 64 62

Men's doubles ½ f = E Samuel-S Khoury d Sonbol-F Samuel 75 97 62; Daoudy-Hassanein d K Issa-N Hajjar 62 60 62; Final= E.Samuel-S Khoury d Daoudy-Hassanein 63 26 16 64 64;

Ladies singles : Final = Lita Akraoui (or Akrawi) d Rose Manasseh



1970 International September 6

Men's singles : Losers of early rounds were Patrice Beust (Fr), A. Hassanein to I.Gulyas- and Motaz Sonbol (Egypt), John Clifton (GB) to A Daoudy, Aydin (Turkey), Jimmy Moore (Australia). P Dent d S Khouri 62 62, J Alexander d K Issa 62 62;

¼ f : S Baranyi (Hung) d Jaime Pinto Bravo (Chile) 60 63; John Alexander (Australia) d Ali el Daoudi (Eg) 62 64; Istvan Gulyas (Hung) d Daniel Contet (Fr) 63 60; Phil Dent(Australia) d J E Mandarino (Braz) 64 63; ½ f : Alexander d Baranyi 63 64 64; Gulyas d Dent 63 60 26 62;

Final : I Gulyas d J Alexander 63 1412 68 75

Men's doubles ¼ f : Gulyas-Baranyi d Daoudi-Hassanein 62 64; Contet-John Clifton (GB) d J Moore-S Khoury (Lb) 64 64; ½ f : Gulyas-Baranyi d Mandarino-Pinto Bravo 36 75 75 46 97; Alexander-Dent d Contet-Clifton 64 63 63; Final : Alexander-Dent d Gulyas-Baranyi 63 64 64

Ladies singles ¼ f : Jill Cooper (GB) d Alena Palmeova (Czech) 16 63 62; F Moore (A) d Ana Maria Arias(Arg) 60 61; ½ f : Winnie Shaw (GB) d Cooper 61 63; Ann Jones (GB) d Moore 64 64

Final : W Shaw d Ann Jones 16 62 61

Mixed ¼ f : Shaw-Contet d Cooper-Clifton 63 61; Arias-Pinto Bravo d Palmeova-Mandarino 62 62; Jones-Alexander d R Khoury-E Samuel 61 60; ½ f : W Shaw-Contet d Moore-Moore 62 60; Mrs Jones-Alexander d Arias-Pinto Bravo 46 63 64

Final : Shaw-Contet d Jones-Alexander 75 75

  • Ann Haydon Jones, after more than 10 years in the world's best Ten, had won Wimbledon in 1969, beating the famous Margaret Court and Billie Jean King in the ½ and f. She had reached the final there in 1967, losing to King, and was also runner-up at Roland Garros in 1961 and 1966, and at Forest Hills (US title) in 1961 and 1967.

  • In Istanbul, Bob Hewitt (who will skip Brummana that summer) won the finals over Roland-Garros finalist Zelkjo Franulovic of Yugoslavia in 5 sets


Gulyas
Phil Dent
John Allexander
"Albert Kamel, the sports manager of the club, was the FATHERLY, KIND official who, every day, every hour of the Tournaments, from start to beginning, LOOKED AFTER each and every competitor, local and international, junior or star, Beginner or Veteran, for more than 20 years. He made the Sports Club a NICE place to cherish and remember for all who played there
  
Two National Heroes of their kind on the Lebanese Tennis scene: Elie Aboukhaled (Loulou for all) served as referee at Brummana for 30 years + Karim Fawaz, ranked no 1 and actor in many epic matches there in the 60's