1877 men's tennis season

none 1877 men's tennis season Spencer Gore portrait.jpg English tennis player Spencer Gore (1850-1906), first Wimbledon Champion (1877) 19 April 1906. 200px 19 July – 9 October 5 Important (1) National (1) Regular (3) No outright leader No outright leader 1876 1878 The 1877 men's tennis seasonArchives Tennis 1877 Men's tour http://www.tennisarchives.com/jaarwedstrijdenfiche.php www.tennisarchives.com tennis archives, 2016 9 December 2016Tennis season 1877 https://app.thetennisbase.com/?enlace=season&anno=1877&tipoMainTorneos=main&surface=&tipo_de_torneo= thetennisbase.com The Tennis Base, 2016 9 December 2016 was composed of 5 tournaments. Before the birth of Open Era (tennis), most tournaments were reserved for amateur athletes. In 1874 British Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patented with the House of London Crafts the invention of a new game, which consisted of a shaped field hourglass, divided in the middle by a suspended net. The game was packaged in a box containing some balls, four paddles, the net components and the signs to mark the field. The game was based on the rules of the old real tennis and, at the suggestion of Arthur Balfour, was called lawn-tennis. The official date of birth of the court would be February 23, 1874. In 1877 all were amateur tournaments, among them was the first 1877 Wimbledon Championship, the inaugural event was held from 9 to 19 July and saw as the inaugural winner Spencer Gore. The tournament would remain for a period of 35 years the sole major tennis tournament in the world until the International Lawn Tennis Federation introduces its three World championship series events in 1913 that continue until 1923, when the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association (f. 1881) only agrees to join the ILTF on the basis of two compromises: the title 'World Championships' would be abolished and wording would be 'for ever in the English language'. Wimbledon would still retain its prestigious and historical status,Burke Monte What Is The Most Prestigious Grand Slam Tennis Tournament? https://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2012/05/30/what-is-the-most-prestigious-grand-slam-tennis-tournament/?sh=28e78f7d7696 8 July 2022 Forbes 30 May 2012 en and become one of the four Grand Slam tennis events from 1924. Whilst Wimbledon was the most prominent event of this inaugural new sport season in Ireland two other tournaments were also staged, one taking place in Waterford and the other was University of Dublin Lawn Tennis Championships. 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 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz EVENING POST, VOLUME CIII, ISSUE 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 Important. Mazak 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 February 2, 2011 9 December 2016Nauright John Parrish Charles Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice 2012 ABC-CLIO Santa Barbara, Calif. 9781598843002 198 https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&q=notable+19th+century+tennis+tournaments&pg=RA1-PA198 enGillmeister Heiner Tennis:Cultural History 1998 A&C Black London 9780718501952 199 https://books.google.com/books?id=44Vu3DdHFvsC&q=william+renshaw+irish+championships&pg=PA199 enMazak 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 February 2, 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/Regional/State County Regular January to June No events July DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalistJuly.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 ? 19 JulyWimbledon ChampionshipsThe Championships Wimbledon 1877 Gentleman's singles http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/pdfs/1877_MS_A4.pdf LTA 15 July 2016All England Lawn Tennis Club Wimbledon, Middlesex, EnglandGrassSinglesENG Spencer Gore6–1, 6–2, 6–4 GBR William Marshall ENG Charles Gilbert HeathcoteBye GBR F.N. LanghamGBR Julian MarshallSCO Lestocq Robert ErskineBye August No events September DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist 3 SeptemberWaterford Annual Lawn Tennis TournamentWaterford 1877 Ireland http://www.tennisarchives.com/voorloopfiche.php?wedstrijdvoorloopid=17550 tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 25 October 2016 Waterford, IrelandGrassSinglesIreland 1783 Vere St. Leger Goold6-2, 6–3, 6-4 Ireland 1783 H. H. Elliott Ireland 1783 Vere St. Leger Goold Ireland 1783 J. C. Roberts Ireland 1783 H. H. ElliottIreland 1783 John M. BrownIreland 1783 Mr. Moore October DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist 8 OctoberDublin University ChampionshipsDublin University LT Championships 1877 http://www.tennisarchives.com/voorloopfiche.php?wedstrijdvoorloopid=17592 tennisarchives.com Tennis Archives 25 October 2016Dublin, IrelandHard (Asphalt)SinglesIreland 1783 Richard Manders ? Ireland 1783 George Henry Shannon Ireland 1783 George Henry Shannon Ireland 1783 Charles Dubedat Ireland 1783 Robert Edward Shaw November to December No events Tournament winners major tournaments in bold ENG Spencer Gore–Wimbledon Championships, (1) Ireland 1783 Richard Manders, Dublin, (1) ENG Clement Edward Cottrell, Esher, (1) Ireland 1783 Vere St. Leger Goold, Waterford, (1) See also 1877 in Tennis 1877 in sports References 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. 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