1878 women's tennis season

none November 2022 1878 Women's Tennis Season September 1878 – October 1878 3rd 2 Regional (1)Regular (1) Ireland 1783 Miss Smith (1)USA Mary Outerbridge (1) Ireland 1783 Miss Smith (1)USA Mary Outerbridge (1) 1877 1879 The 1878 Women's Tennis SeasonHeathcote John Moyer Pleydell-Bonverie Edward Oliver Ainger Arthur Campbell Tennis 1890 Longmans, Green, and Company London 147 en The development of Lawn Tennis was mainly composed of regional, local amateur tournaments. This year 2 tennis events for women were staged in Limerick, Ireland and Staten Island, New York City, United States between September and October 1878 Season summary The women's amateur tennis seasons covers a period of thirty five years from 1876 to 1912. During this period there was no single international organization responsible for overseeing tennis. At the very start in tennis history lawn tennis clubs themselves organized events and some like the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in England (f.1877) and the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Ireland (f.1879) generally oversaw tennis in their respective countries. This would later change when tennis players started (those that could) traveling the world to compete in events organized by individual national lawn tennis associations (NLTA)s, the oldest of which then was the United States Lawn Tennis Association (f. 1881). Certain countries that did not establish a national association until later, had provincial, regional or state lawn tennis associations overseeing tournaments in a province, region or state within a country, such as the Northern Lawn Tennis Association in Manchester, England (f.1880),Heathcote J. M. Heathacote: C. G. Tennis; Lawn Tennis 1890 Spottiswoode and Co London 164 https://books.google.com/books?id=pjDB-9foYGMC&dq=Northern+Lawn+Tennis+Association+was+founded+in&pg=PA518 en had responsibility for coordinating tournaments staged by clubs in the North of England region. In Australia the Victorian Lawn Tennis Association (f.1904) organised tournaments in the state of Victoria, Australia. In 1878 only two tournaments for women were staged one of them in Ireland. At the third edition of South of Ireland Championships in Limerick the singles event was won by a Miss Smith.Limerick Lawn Tennis Club. (2013) Limerick Lawn Tennis Club. History - Source: http://www.lltc.ie/about-us/history |website=www.lltc.ie Publisher: Limerick Lawn Tennis Club. Limerick, Ireland. In the United States the Ladies Club for Outdoor Sports and offshoot of the Staten Island Crocket and Baseball Club,Boyle Brigid M. Athleticism and the New Woman: Lawn Tennis at the Staten Island Ladies' Club Winterthur Portfolio 1 December 2019 53 4 231–268 10.1086/708494 https://doi.org/10.1086/708494 University of Chicago Chicago 219891521 0084-0416 Abstract subscription Camp Washington, New Brighton, New York City organized a women's event at the combined Staten Island Crocket and Baseball Club Tournament. In Japan in 1878 a Ladies' Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (LLTCC) was founded at Yamate Park by British ladies expatriates living in the foreign settlement in Yokohama made history by forming the first genuine tennis club in Japan.About:Y.I.T.C. https://yitc.org/e/about/index.html yitc.org Yokohama International Tennis Community 24 November 2022 At the 1878 Wimbledon Championships the world's first major tennis tournament, it still remained an all men's event, no women's events were staged. In 1913 the International Lawn Tennis Federation was created, that consisted of national member associations. The ILTF through its associated members then became responsible for supervising women's tour events. Season results 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),Papers Past, (20 March 1922). Abolition of Challenge Round. Paris International Championships. Evening Post Newspaper: Volume CIII, Issue 65, National Library of New Zealand. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers. Accessed: 14 July 2022 October. in some tournaments not all.* Indicates doubles ** mixed doubles Notes 2:Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only once that season Key Main events Nauright, John, Parrish, Charles, (2012) Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice. ABC-CLIO. Santa Barbara, Calif, USA. ISBN 9781598843002. p. 198.Gillmeister, Heiner (1998) Tennis:Cultural History. A&C Black. London. ISBN 9780718501952. p.199.Lake, Robert J. (2014) A Social History of Tennis in Britain: Volume 5 of Routledge Research in Sports History: Routledge. Oxford. p.48. National events Provincial/Regional/State events County events Regular events January to August No events September EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter FinalistSep 26.South of Ireland ChampionshipsLimerick, County Limerick, IrelandOutdoorGrassSinglesIreland 1783 Miss Smith6-1, 6-1Ireland 1783 Mrs E. LyonsIreland 1783 Miss RoyseIreland 1783 Miss CollingwoodIreland 1783 Miss M. LysaghtIreland 1783 Miss Isabella RoyseIreland 1783 Helena Considine ** Ireland 1783 Heffernan Considine **6-4, 3–6, 6-2Ireland 1783 Miss Lumley ENG Robert Howden Kellie October EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter FinalistOct 11 Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club TournamentCamp Washington, New Brighton, Staten Island, United StatesOutdoorGrassSingles USA Mary Outerbridge13-11, 5-0USA L. Outerbridge USA Mary Outerbridge *USA L. Outerbridge13-11, 5-1 USA Adeline RobinsonUSA Miss West November to December No events Tournament winners Singles This is list of winners sorted by number of singles titles Ireland 1783 Miss Smith (1) Limerick USA Mary Outerbridge (1) Staten Island Doubles This is list of winners sorted by number of doubles titles USA Mary Outerbridge & USA L. Outerbridge (1) Staten Island References collapsed Category:Pre Open era tennis seasons 1878 Women's Tennis Tour Category:1878 in women's history