1878 men's tennis season

Men's tennis season November 2023 1878 men's tennis season Frank Hadow.jpg Frank Hadow(from Hadow family collection. He won the major event of this year Wimbledon) 200px 21 May – 12 October 15Tournaments 1878 http://www.tennisarchives.com/jaarwedstrijdenfiche.php tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 25 October 2016 Important (1) National (2) Provincial/Regional/State (1) County (1) Local (9) No outright leader No outright leader 1877 1879 The 1878 men's tennis seasonArchives Tennis 1878 Men's tournaments http://www.tennisarchives.com/jaarwedstrijdenfiche.php www.tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives, 2016 9 December 2016Tennis season 1878 https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=season&anno=1878&tipoMainTorneos=main&surface=&tipo_de_torneo= thetennisbase.com Tennis Base, 2016 9 December 2016 was the third annual pre-open era season, with 15 tournaments staged in Great Britain and Ireland the Wimbledon Championships was won by challenger Patrick Francis Hadow defeating the defending champion Spencer Gore. It began in April in Newcastle Emlyn, Wales and ended in October in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Summary This early pre open era season began in April 1878 with Teifiside Lawn Tennis Club Tournament on grass played at Newcastle Emlyn, Wales the club is still open today.Our history https://ncetennis.org/our-history/ ncetennis.org Newcastle Emlyn & Adpar Community Tennis Club 6 July 2022 15 July 2019 In May a spring tennis tournament was held at the Bournemouth Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club on Dean Park Cricket Ground, Bournemouth, England the club held a second event in October this year.The Athletic world and journal of English sports 5 April 1878 London 81 https://books.google.com/books?id=WbkOAAAAQAAJ&dq=cricket+and+lawn+tennis+club+tournament+bournemouth+1878&pg=PA81 en In July the most important event of the year the 1878 Wimbledon Championships was won by the challenger Patrick Francis Hadow who beat Spencer Gore in the all comers final. In August the inaugural Scottish Championships was won by James Patten MacDougall.Smellie, Kennedy. (12 April 1933). The History of the Dyvours Lawn Tennis Club 1883 to 1933 by Kennedy Smellie Hon. Secretary and Treasurer Scottish Lawn Tennis Association. R. W. Forsyth Ltd. Edinburgh, Glasgow and London. p.5.Donnelley Paul Firsts Lasts & only's Tennis a truly wonderful collection of trivia https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/sites/default/files/associated_downloads/Tennis%20Firsts%2C%20Lasts%2C%20Onlys%20sample.pdf Pitch Publishing 6 July 2022 Worthing, England. 27 In September at the inaugural County Wicklow Championships the tournament was won by a Captain Hughes. In September at the South of Ireland Championships held Wicklow in Ireland, the Limerick Cup was won by Vere St. Leger Goold.History https://www.lltc.ie/about-us/history lltc.ie Limerick Lawn Tennis Club 6 July 2022 Calendar Notes 1: Challenge round: the final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921),Abolition of Challenge Rounds https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19220320.2.111.2?query=Paris%20International%20Championships Papers Past EVENING POST CIII 65 20 March 1922 6 October 2016 in some tournaments not all.* Indicates challenger Notes 2:Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only once that season Key ImportantMazak Karoly The Concise History of Tennis, The complete tennis history from 1877 2016 Karoly Mazak 5–11 6th http://www.theconcisehistoryoftennis.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110202122426/http://theconcisehistoryoftennis.com/ usurped 2 February 2011 9 December 2016Nauright John Parrish Charles Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice 2012 ABC-CLIO Santa Barbara, California 9781598843002 198 https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&pg=RA1-PA198Gillmeister Heiner Tennis:Cultural History 1998 A&C Black London 9780718501952 199 https://books.google.com/books?id=44Vu3DdHFvsC&pg=PA199Mazak Karoly The Concise History of Tennis The complete tennis history from 1877 2010 Karoly Mazak (Ph.D.) 3 6th http://www.theconcisehistoryoftennis.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110202122426/http://theconcisehistoryoftennis.com/ usurped 2 February 2011Lake Robert J. A Social History of Tennis in Britain: Volume 5 of Routledge Research in Sports History 2014 Routledge 9781134445578 48 https://books.google.com/books?id=8kyvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 National Provincial/State/Regional County Local/other January to March No events April DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist21 - 24 April.Nieuwland Alex Edition – Teifiside Lawn Tennis Club 1878 https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=35353 www.tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 6 July 2022 Teifiside LTC ChampionshipTeifiside Lawn Tennis ClubNewcastle Emlyn, WalesGrassSingles - DoublesWAL Gwyn Saunders Davies?WAL Dacre Tyler May DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist21 - 24 May.Nieuwland Alex Edition – Bournemouth Spring Tournament 1878 https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=34802 www.tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 6 July 2022 Bournemouth CLTC Spring TournamentField: (11 May 1878) The Quarterly Magazine and review. Lawn Tennis announcements. Horace Cox. London, England. pp.43–44.Bournemouth CLTCDean Park Cricket GroundBournemouth, EnglandGrassSingles - DoublesUKGBI Edmond Bennet Brackenbury3 sets to 2UKGBI Sir Hubert James Medlycott July DateTournamentWinnerAll comers' finalistSemifinalistQuarterfinalistJuly.O'Riordan Turlough Dunlop, Henry Wallace Doveton https://www.dib.ie/biography/dunlop-henry-wallace-doveton-a9797 www.dib.ie December 2015 Dictionary of Irish Biography 10 December 2022 Dublin, Republic of Ireland enAll Ireland Lawn Tennis ChampionshipsAll Ireland Lawn Tennis ClubChampion GroundLansdowne, Dublin, Ireland.GrassSingles? ? 12 JulyChampionship of the Esher LTC Esher Lawn Tennis ClubEsher, Surrey, EnglandGrassSinglesGBR Clement Edward Cottrell ? ? 9–19 JulyWimbledon ChampionshipThe Championships Wimbledon 1878Gentlemen's All-Comers' Singles http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/pdfs/1878_MS_A4.pdf LTA 15 July 2016London, Great BritainGrassSingles ENG Patrick Francis Hadow6–4, 6–4, 6–4 SCO Lestocq Robert Erskine SCO Herbert Lawford GBR Charles Gipps HamiltonGBR Arthur Thomas MyersChallenger roundENG Spencer GoreTingay Lance 100 years of Wimbledon 1977 Guinness Superlatives Enfield [Eng.] 09004247107–5, 6–1, 9–7 24 July.LAWN TENNIS: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB TOURNAMENT. "Fine weather favoured the tennis tournament on Friday last 26th July, when there was a large and most influential attendance. The original programme was somewhat curtailed, inasmuch as two matches were withdrawn." Lichfield Mercury. British Newspaper Archives. 2 August 1878. Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. page.5.Staffordshire County Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament.Staffordshire County Cricket GroundLichfield, Staffordshire, EnglandGrassSinglesGBR Jonas Henry William Gardner? August DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist 12–19 AugustScottish ChampionshipsCraiglockhart was Wimbledon warm-up tournament of choice for the pros http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/craiglockhart-was-wimbledon-warm-up-tournament-of-choice-for-the-pros-1-2389369 edinburghnews.scotsman.com the Edinburgh News 3 July 2012 29 July 2016 5 October 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161005083027/http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/craiglockhart-was-wimbledon-warm-up-tournament-of-choice-for-the-pros-1-2389369 deadLawn Tennis in Scotland, 50 years of the game https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19270809&id=9KBAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4041,5538355&hl=en Google News The Glasgow Herald, 9 August 1927 29 July 2016 Edinburgh, Great BritainSingles SCO James Patten MacDougallScottish Championships 1878 http://www.tennisarchives.com/voorloopfiche.php?wedstrijdvoorloopid=4326 tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 29 July 2016 September DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist6 September.Nieuwland Alex Edition – Armagh 1878 https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=35381 www.tennisarchives.com Tennis ArchivesMcCreary Alf Saint Patrick's City : the story of Armagh 2001 Blackstaff Belfast 9780856407116 114 1st Armagh at PlayArmagh Lawn Tennis TournamentArmagh Lawn Tennis ClubArmagh, IrelandGrassSingles - Doubles Ireland 1783 W.F. Templer ?Ireland 1783 Robert Shaw Templer 8–9 SeptemberCounty Wicklow ChampionshipsBromley 1878 http://www.tennisarchives.com/voorloopfiche.php?wedstrijdvoorloopid=17631 tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 26 October 2016Bromley, County Wicklow, IrelandGrassSinglesIreland 1783 Henry Evelyn Tombe? GBR Captain Hughes? GBR Captain HughesENG George Gordon Tombe Ireland 1783 S. H. ButcherIreland 1783 Augustine LefroyENG George Gordon Tombe 16–17 SeptemberWaterford TournamentWaterford 1878 http://www.tennisarchives.com/voorloopfiche.php?wedstrijdvoorloopid=17610 tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 26 October 2016Waterford, IrelandGrassSinglesIreland 1783 Vere St. Leger Goold? Ireland 1783 J. M. Brown Ireland 1783 Henry Joseph Gallwey Ireland 1783 J. C. Roberts Ireland 1783 Patrick Joseph Gallwey Ireland 1783 William Joseph Gallwey Ireland 1783 Pierce Barron-Newell 23 September.Nieuwland Alex Edition – Newton Abbot 1878 https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=35380 www.tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 6 July 2022Lawn tennis: For the first time, will be held in connection with the Newton Abbot Archery and Lawn Tennis Club, an amateur lawn-tennis meeting. The competitors will assemble on the ground of the South Devon Cricket Club 23rd September. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams British Newspaper Archives 9 July 1878 Plymouth, Devon, England 3Newon Abbott Lawn Tennis Tournament Newton Abbot Archery and Lawn Tennis ClubSouth Devon Cricket Club GroundNewton Abbot, Devon, EnglandGrassSingles - Doubles WAL Rev. William Hughes?GBR W. Sandilands 26–30 September.Tournaments: South of Ireland Championships https://thetennisbase.com/tournaments/ The Tennis Base Tennismem SL 24 May 2023 Madrid subscriptionSome history regarding Limerick Lawn http://www.lltc.ie/about-us/history Limerick Lawn Tennis Club 29 July 2016South of Ireland ChampionshipsLimerick Cricket ClubLimerick, IrelandGrassSingles Ireland 1783 Vere St. Leger Goold8–6, 8–6 GBR William Henry Darby GBR William Henry Darby GBR H H Eliott Ireland 1783 Joseph Fritz James Heffernan Considine Ireland 1783 Robert Howden Kelly GBR Charles Mounoir Sumner Ireland 1783 Heffernan ConsidineIreland 1783 Helena Considine6-3, 6–5, 6-2Ireland 1783 Robert Howden Kelly Ireland 1783 Miss Lumley October DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalistOctober.Lawn Tennis."The Moy and Charlemont Lawn Tennis Tournament held by the Moy and Charlemont Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club that started monday ended on Thursday, the gentleman's tournament was won by Mr. Robert Baron Templer". The Tyrone Constitution. Tyrone, Northern Ireland.: British Newspaper Archives. 18 October 1878. pp. 3, 4.Nieuwland Alex Edition – Moy and Charlemont 1878 https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=35391 www.tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 6 July 2022Moy and Charlemont LTC TournamentMoy and Charlemont Croquet and Lawn Tennis ClubMoy, County Tyrone, Northern IrelandSinglesIreland 1783 Robert Baron Templer? Ireland 1783 S. Phipson Ireland 1783 Robert Baron Templer Ireland 1783 H. Ringwood Ireland 1783 Archibald Alexander Hamilton Ireland 1783 H. Ringwood Ireland 1783 Robert Shaw Templer 7–12 OctoberDublin University ChampionshipsDublin University Championships 1878 http://www.tennisarchives.com/voorloopfiche.php?wedstrijdvoorloopid=17640 tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 26 October 2016 Dublin, IrelandHard (Asphalt)SinglesIreland 1783 James Jackson Sherrard? Ireland 1783 William Morgan Jellett Ireland 1783 Henry James Daly? Ireland 1783 William Morgan Jellett Ireland 1783 Henry James Daly Ireland 1783 Richard Manders Ireland 1783 George Henry Shannon 10 October.Goddard Arthur Beautiful Bournemouth 1891 Oetzmann & Company Bournemouth 35 https://books.google.com/books?id=jWkVAAAAQAAJ&dq=dean+park+lawn+tennis+club+bournemouth&pg=PA35 enNieuwland Alex Edition – Bournemouth 1878 https://www.tennisarchives.com/edition/?v=34806 www.tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 6 July 2022 Bournemouth CLTC Autumn TournamentBournemouth CLTCDean Park Cricket GroundBournemouth, EnglandGrassSingles - DoublesUKGBI Hubert James Medlycott?UKGBI November to December No events Tournament winners major tournaments in bold ENG Patrick Francis Hadow – Wimbledon Championships-(1) Ireland 1783 W.F. Templer, Armagh, (1) UKGBI Edmond Bennet Brackenbury, Bournemouth I, (1) UKGBI Sir Hubert James Medlycott, Bournemouth II, (1) Ireland 1783 Henry Evelyn Tombe, Bromley, (1) Ireland 1783 James Jackson Sherrard, Dublin II, (1) SCO James Patten MacDougall, Edinburgh, (1) GBR Clement Edward Cottrell, Esher, (1) GBR Jonas Henry William Gardner–, Lichfield, (1) Ireland 1783 William Henry Darby, Limerick, (1) Ireland 1783 Robert Baron Templer, Moy, (1) WAL Gwyn Saunders, Newcastle Emlyn, (1) WAL William Hughes, Newton Abbott, (1) Ireland 1783 Vere St. Leger Goold, Waterford, (1) See also 1878 women's tennis season 1878 Tennis Season 1878 in sports References 30em Sources A Social History of Tennis in Britain: Lake, Robert J. (2014), Volume 5 of Routledge Research in Sports History. Routledge, UK, 9781134445578. Ayre's Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, 1908 to 1938, A. Wallis Myers. British Lawn Tennis and Squash Magazine, 1948 to 1967, British Lawn Tennis Ltd, UK. Dunlop Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, G.P. Hughes, 1939 to 1958, Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd, UK Lawn tennis and Badminton Magazine, 1906 to 1973, UK. Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annuals and Compendia, Lowe, Sir F. Gordon, Eyre & Spottiswoode Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annuals from 1885 to 1922, American Sports Pub. Co, USA. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice, Nauright John and Parrish Charles, (2012), ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Cal, USA, 1598843001. The Concise History of Tennis, Mazak Karoly, (2010), 6th Edition, 2015. Tennis; A Cultural History, Gillmeister Heiner, (1997), Leicester University Press, Leicester, UK. The Tennis Book, edited by Michael Bartlett and Bob Gillen, Arbor House, New York, 1981 0-87795-344-9 The World of Tennis Annuals, Barrett John, 1970 to 2001. Total Tennis:The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, by Bud Collins, Sport Classic Books, Toronto, Canada, 0-9731443-4-3 Wright & Ditson Officially Adopted Lawn Tennis Guide's 1890 to 1920 Wright & Ditsons Publishers, Boston, Mass, USA. http://www.tennisarchives.com/ https://thetennisbase.com/ External links 1878 Scottish Championships 1878 South of Ireland Championships, The Limerick Cup Ireland https://web.archive.org/web/20161026230913/http://www.tennisarchives.com/voorloopfiche.php?wedstrijdvoorloopid=1976 2016-10-26 collapsed 1878 Men's Tennis Tour