1881 Men's Tennis tour
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Details | |
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Duration | 23 May – 10 November |
Edition | 5th |
Tournaments | 32 (Amateur) |
Categories | important (5 ) national (2) regional/state (10) county (5) local (10) |
Achievements (singles) | |
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← 1880 1882 → |
The 1881 Men's tennis tour [1][2] was composed of the fifth annual pre-open era tour now incorporated 32 tournaments staged in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States. The 1881 Wimbledon Championships was won by William Renshaw. This year also saw the inaugural and important 1881 U.S. National Championships held at Newport Casino which Richard Sears won. This was also the year that the United States National Lawn Tennis Association,[3] which is the world's first national tennis association, was founded. Renshaw then won two other big tournaments of the year, the Irish Lawn Tennis Championships and Princes Club Championships, whilst Richard Taswell Richardson won the prestigious Northern Championships.[4]
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),[5] in some tournaments not all.
Notes 2:Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only onetime
Key[]
Important tournaments [6][7][8][9][10] |
National tournaments |
State Regional tournaments |
County tournaments |
Local tournaments |
January to April[]
No events
May[]
Date | Tournament | Winner | All Comers' Finalist | Semifinalist | Quarterfinalist |
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23–29 May | Irish Lawn Tennis Championships[11] Dublin, Ireland Outdoor Grass Singles - |
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June[]
Date | Tournament | Winner | Finalist | Semifinalist | Quarter finalist |
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1–5 June | West of England Championships[4] Bath, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles |
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6–12 June | Waterloo Tournament[12] Liverpool, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles |
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6–12 June | Princes Club Championships[13] London, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles |
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20–26 June | Northern Championships[14]![]() Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles |
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6–12 June | Essex Championships[15] Brentwood, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles |
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July[]
Date | Tournament | Winner | All comers' finalist | Semifinalist | Quarterfinalist |
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2–13 July | Wimbledon Championship [16] London, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles |
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11–17 July | Scottish Championships[17] Edinburgh, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles |
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15–16 July | [19] Stafford, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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18–24 July | Canadian National Championships[20] Toronto, Canada Outdoor Grass Singles |
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18–24 July | Midland Counties Championships[21] Edgbaston, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles |
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25–30 July | London Athletic Club Tournament Fulham, London, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles |
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25–31 July | [22] Dundalk, Ireland Outdoor Grass |
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August[]
Date | Tournament | Winner | Finalist | Semifinalist | Quarter finalist |
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1–6 August | Darlington, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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1–7 August | South of Ireland Championships Limerick, Ireland Outdoor Grass |
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2-6 August | County Kildare Tournament[23] Naas, Ireland Outdoor Grass Grass - |
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1–7 August | Waterford Annual Lawn Tennis Tournament Waterford, Ireland Outdoor Grass Singles |
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8–13 August | Belfast, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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8–14 August | Belfast, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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9–12 August | [24] Exmouth, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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9–12 August | [24] ![]() Outdoor Grass |
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14–15 August | ![]() Outdoor Grass |
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29 August-4 September | [24] Exeter, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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31 August - 3 September | U.S. National Championships[25] Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island, United States Outdoor Grass Singles Doubles |
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September[]
Date | Tournament | Winner | Finalist | Semifinalist | Quarterfinalist |
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12–18 September | South of England Championships[26] Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, Eastbourne, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles |
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13–17 September | [27] Torquay, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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15–17 September | [28] St Leonards-on-Sea, Great Britain Outdoor Grass |
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19–24 September | East Gloucestershire Championships Cheltenham, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles |
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26 September- 2 October |
[29] Bournemouth, Great Britain Outdoor Grass - |
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October[]
Date | Tournament | Winner | Finalist | Semifinalist | Quarterfinalist |
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3–10 October | [30] Armagh, Northern Ireland Outdoor Hard |
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4–10 October | Sussex County Lawn Tennis Tournament Brighton, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - |
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24–30 October | New York, United States Outdoor Grass - |
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November[]
Date | Tournament | Winner | Finalist | Semifinalist | Quarterfinalist |
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4–10 November | Victorian Championships[31] Melbourne, Australia Outdoor Hard Singles - Doubles |
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December[]
No events
List of tournament winners[]
Note: important tournaments in bold
Richard Barron Templer -Armagh -(1)
Pelham George Dunop -Bath -(1)
E. J. Charley -Belfast -(1)
Montague Hankey -Bournemouth -(1)
Michael G. McNamara -Brighton-Waterford- (2)
-Colchester-(1)
A. Springett -Darlington -(1)
William Renshaw -Cheltenham -Dublin-London-Wimbledon- (4)
Robert Shaw Templer -Dundalk -(1)
Edgar Lubbock -Eastbourne -(1)
Dr. Walter W. Chamberlain -Edgbaston -(1)
John G. Horn - Edinburgh -(1)
Leslie Balfour-Melville -Edinburgh -(1)
Spencer Cox -Exeter -(1)
E. W. Mancounchy -Exmouth -(1)
Edmond Bennett Brackenbury -Limerick -(1)
Herbert Lawford -London -(1)
Frederick Lawrence Rawson -London-(1)
Richard Mercer-Maidstone-(1)
Richard Taswell Richardson -Waterloo-Manchester - (2)
Louis Whyte -Melbourne -(1)
-Naas-(1)
John Jameson Cairnes -New York -(1)
A.W. Soames-St Leonards-on-Sea-(1)
Jonas Henry William Gardner-Stafford-(1)
B. Champion Russell -Teignmouth-(1)
-Torquay-(1)
Isidore F. Hellmuth -Toronto -(1)
Richard Sears - Newport -(1)
Rankings[]
Source: The Concise History of Tennis
Karoly Mazak World Rankings for 1881 [32] | ||||
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See also[]
- 1881 in sports
References[]
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External links[]
- Pre Open era tennis seasons
- 1881 in tennis