1877 women's tennis season

none October 2022 1877 Women's Tennis Season April 1877 – December 1877 2nd 3 National (1)Regional (1)Regular (1) Ireland 1783 Frances GallweyIreland 1783 Miss Smith (1) Ireland 1783 Frances GallweyIreland 1783 Miss Smith (1) 1876 1878 The 1877 Women's Tennis Season was mainly composed of national, regional, local amateur tournaments. This year 3 tennis events were staged in Dublin, Limerick and Waterford, Ireland between April and September 1877 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) traveled 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). In 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 1877 three tournaments for women were staged all of them in Ireland. At the second 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. This year saw the first edition of the Waterford Lawn Tennis Tournament held at Waterford Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club, Rocklands, Waterford, County Waterford the singles title was won by Frances Gallwey. This year was the first staging of the Wimbledon Championships the world's first major tennis tournament, however it was 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 challenger 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 March No events April/May EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter FinalistMay 6.King, Billie Jean and Starr, Cynthia. (November 1, 1988). We Have Come a Long Way: The Story of Women's Tennis. McGraw-Hill. New York. United States. p.5.All Ireland Lawn Tennis ChampionshipsDublin, IrelandGrassSinglesIreland 1783 ?d. Ireland 1783 ? June–July No events August EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter FinalistAug 4.Limerick Lawn Tennis ClubSouth of Ireland ChampionshipsLimerick, IrelandOutdoorGrassSinglesIreland 1783 Miss Smith.def Ireland 1783 ? September EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter FinalistSep 16.Waterford Lawn Tennis TournamentWaterford CLTCRocklands, Waterford, IrelandOutdoorGrassSinglesIreland 1783 Frances Gallweydef Ireland 1783 Miss RobertsIreland 1783 A. GallweyIreland 1783 M. RadcliffeIreland 1783 Mrs BucknellIreland 1783 Miss McCreeryIreland 1783 Miss O'DonnellIreland 1783 Miss RadcliffeIreland 1783 Miss Radcliffe ** Ireland 1783 Henry Joseph Gallwey ** defIreland 1783 Frances Gallwey Ireland 1783 Benjamin E. Bunbury November to December No events Tournament winners Singles This is list of winners sorted by number of singles titles Ireland 1783 ?–Dublin–(1) Ireland 1783 Miss Smith (1) Limerick Ireland 1783 Frances Gallwey (1) Waterford Mixed doubles This is list of winners sorted by number of mix doubles titles Ireland 1783 Miss Radcliffe & Ireland 1783 Henry Joseph Gallwey (1) Waterford References collapsed Category:Pre Open era tennis seasons 1877 Women's Tennis Tour Category:1877 in women's history