Which club hosted US Open men's singles from 1921 through 1923?

The Germantown Cricket Club hosted US Open men’s singles from 1921 through 1923.

At the time, the event was called the U.S. National Championships rather than the US Open. The men’s singles tournament moved from Forest Hills to Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia in 1921, and the club hosted the event again in 1922 and 1923.

The three-year run coincided with the dominance of Bill Tilden. Tilden won the men’s singles title at Germantown in all three years: he defeated Wallace Johnson in 1921, Bill Johnston in 1922, and Johnston again in 1923. Germantown’s grass courts therefore became the setting for an important chapter in early American tennis.

The championships were not always held at one venue in this period. In 1921, for example, the men’s singles event was at Germantown, while women’s events were held at the West Side Tennis Club and some doubles events at Longwood Cricket Club. That split-location history explains why venue questions can be misleading.