1877 men's tennis season

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1877 men's tennis season
Spencer Gore portrait.jpg
English tennis player Spencer Gore (1850-1906), first Wimbledon Champion (1877) 19 April 1906.
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Duration19 July – 9 October
Edition2nd
Tournaments5
CategoriesImportant (1)
National (1)
Regular (3)
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titlesNo outright leader
Most tournament finalsNo outright leader
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The 1877 men's tennis season [1] [2] was composed of 5 tournaments for the second edition pre-open era lawn tennis season. 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, [3] and become one of the four Grand Slam tennis events from 1924.

Contents

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), [4] in some tournaments not all.

* Indicates challenger

Notes 2:Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only once that season

Key

Important. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
National
Provincial/Regional/State
County
Regular

January to June

No events

July

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
July. [10] All Ireland Lawn Tennis Championships
All Ireland Lawn Tennis Club
Champion Ground
Lansdowne, Dublin, Ireland.
Grass
Singles
12 July Championship of the Esher LTC
Esher Lawn Tennis Club
Esher, Surrey, England
Grass
Singles 		Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Clement Edward Cottrell
?
19 July Wimbledon Championships [11]
All England Lawn Tennis Club
Wimbledon, Middlesex, England
Grass
Singles 		Flag of England.svg Spencer Gore
6–1, 6–2, 6–4		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg William Marshall Flag of England.svg Charles Gilbert Heathcote
Bye		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg F.N. Langham
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Julian Marshall
Flag of Scotland.svg Lestocq Robert Erskine
Bye

August

No events

September

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
3 September Waterford Annual Lawn Tennis Tournament [12]
Waterford, Ireland
Grass
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Vere St. Leger Goold
6-2, 6-3, 6-4		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg H. H. Elliott Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Vere St. Leger Goold
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg J. C. Roberts		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg H. H. Elliott
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg John M. Brown
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Mr. Moore

October

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
8 October Dublin University Championships [13]
Dublin, Ireland
Hard (Asphalt)
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Richard Manders
 ?		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg George Henry Shannon Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg George Henry Shannon
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Charles Dubedat
 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Edward Shaw

November to December

No events

List of tournament winners

Important tournament in bold

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