Mexico City International Tournament

The Mexico City International Tournament is the original name of the Mexican Open of Badminton that was promoted by both the Mexican Association of Badminton and the Centro Deportivo Chapultepec. The Mexican Open of Badminton is an international tournament organised in Mexico.[1]

The first competition was organised in 1949; there were four more editions held in 1952, 1958, 1959 and 1961.[1]

Since 1964, the tournament was officially called the Mexican National Open Championship.

However, in 2009, the Mexican Association of Badminton decided to start counting the event as a new one; hence, the 2014 Mexican Open is considered as the fifth Mexican Open.

The Mexican Open is one of the most important Latin American Badminton Championships together with the Pan American Badminton Championships and Pan American Games.

Winners

Year Men´s singles Women´s singles Men´s doubles Women´s doubles Mixed doubles
1949 MexicoErnesto Villareal United States Margaret Varner Mexico Ernesto Villareal

Mexico Ruben Mejia

No competition No competition
1952 Mexico Ernesto Villareal United States Pat Gallagher Mexico Ernesto Villareal

Mexico Ruben Mejia

United States Shirley Fry

United States Peggy Vilbig

No competition
1958 United States W. E. Berry United States Pat Gallagher United States W. E. Berry

United States Michael Hartgrove

United States Mary Connor

United States Mildred Sirwaitis

Canada Bert Fergus

United States Mildred Sirwaitis

1959 Malaysia Teh Kew San United StatesPat Gallagher Malaysia Teh Kew San

Malaysia Lim Say Hup

Mexico Carmela Martinez

Mexico Maria Eugenia de del Rio

United States Manuel Armendariz

United States Mildred Sirwaitis

1962 Denmark Erland Kops United StatesPat Gallagher Denmark Erland Kops

Indonesia Tan Joe Hok

United States Pat Gallagher

United States Carlene Starkey

United StatesManuel Armendariz

United StatesBeulah Armendariz

  1. 1 2 Herbert A. E. Scheele ed., The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1965 (Bromley, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd. 1965) p 212.
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