1878 men's tennis season

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1878 men's tennis season
Frank Hadow.jpg
Frank Hadow
(from Hadow family collection. He won the major event of this year Wimbledon)
Details
Duration21 May – 12 October
Edition3rd
Tournaments15 [1]
CategoriesImportant (1)
National (2)
Provincial/Regional/State (1)
County (1)
Local (9)
Achievements (singles)
Most titlesNo outright leader
Most finalsNo outright leader
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The 1878 men's tennis season [2] [3] was composed of the third annual pre-open era tour. It now incorporated 15 tournaments staged in Great Britain and Ireland the Wimbledon Championships was won by challenger Patrick Francis Hadow defeating the defending champion Spencer Gore.

Contents

It began in April in Newcastle Emlyn, Wales and ended in October in Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

Summary

This early pre open era tour began in April 1878 with Teifiside Lawn Tennis Club Tournament on grass played at Newcastle Emlyn, Wales the club is still open today. [4] In May a spring tennis tournament was held at the Bournemouth Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club on Dean Park Cricket Ground, Bournemouth, England the club held a second event in October this year. [5]

In July the most important event of the year the 1878 Wimbledon Championships was won by the challenger Patrick Francis Hadow who beat Spencer Gore in the all comers final. In August the inaugural Scottish Championships was won by James Patten MacDougall. [6] [7] In September at the inaugural County Wicklow Championships the tournament was won by a Captain Hughes. In September at the South of Ireland Championships held Wicklow in Ireland, the Limerick Cup was won by Vere St. Leger Goold. [8]

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), [9] in some tournaments not all.

* Indicates challenger

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

Key

Important [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
National
Provincial/State/Regional
County
Local/other

January to March

No events

April

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
21 - 24 April. [15] [16] Teifiside LTC Championship
Teifiside Lawn Tennis Club
Newcastle Emlyn, Wales
Grass
Singles - Doubles 		Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Gwyn Saunders Davies
?		 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Dacre Tyler

May

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
21 - 24 May. [17] [18] Bournemouth CLTC Spring Tournament [19]
Bournemouth CLTC
Dean Park Cricket Ground
Bournemouth, England
Grass
Singles - Doubles 		Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Edmond Bennet Brackenbury
3 sets to 2		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Sir Hubert James Medlycott

July

DateTournamentWinnerAll comers' finalistSemifinalistQuarterfinalist
July. [20] 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
?		?
9–19 July Wimbledon Championship [21]
London, Great Britain
Grass
Singles 		Flag of England.svg Patrick Francis Hadow
6–4, 6–4, 6–4		 Flag of Scotland.svg Lestocq Robert Erskine Flag of Scotland.svg Herbert Lawford
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Charles Gipps Hamilton
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Arthur Thomas Myers
Challenger round
Flag of England.svg Spencer Gore [22]
7–5, 6–1, 9–7
24 July. [23] Staffordshire County Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament.
Staffordshire County Cricket Ground
Lichfield, Staffordshire, England
Grass
Singles 		Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jonas Henry William Gardner
?

August

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
12–19 August Scottish Championships [24]
[25] Edinburgh, Great Britain
Singles 		Flag of Scotland.svg James Patten MacDougall [26]

September

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
6 September. [27] [28] Armagh Lawn Tennis Tournament
Armagh Lawn Tennis Club
Armagh, Ireland
Grass
Singles - Doubles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg W.F. Templer
?		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Shaw Templer
8–9 September County Wicklow Championships [29]
Bromley, County Wicklow, Ireland
Grass
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Henry Evelyn Tombe
?		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Captain Hughes
?		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Captain Hughes
Flag of England.svg George Gordon Tombe
 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg S. H. Butcher
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Augustine Lefroy
Flag of England.svg George Gordon Tombe
16–17 September Waterford Tournament [30]
Waterford, Ireland
Grass
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Vere St. Leger Goold
?		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg J. M. Brown Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Henry Joseph Gallwey
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg J. C. Roberts
 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Patrick Joseph Gallwey
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg William Joseph Gallwey
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Pierce Barron-Newell
23 September. [31] [32] Newon Abbott Lawn Tennis Tournament
Newton Abbot Archery and Lawn Tennis Club
South Devon Cricket Club Ground
Newton Abbot, Devon, England
Grass
Singles - Doubles 		Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg Rev. William Hughes
?		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg W. Sandilands
26–30 September. [33] [34] South of Ireland Championships
Limerick Cricket Club
Limerick, Ireland
Grass
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Vere St. Leger Goold
8–6, 8–6		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg William Henry Darby Flag of the United Kingdom.svg William Henry Darby
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg H H Eliott
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Joseph Fritz James Heffernan Considine
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Howden Kelly
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Charles Mounoir Sumner
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Heffernan Considine
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Helena Considine
6-3, 6-5, 6-2		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Howden Kelly
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Lumley

October

DateTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
October. [35] [36] Moy and Charlemont LTC Tournament
Moy and Charlemont Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club
Moy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Baron Templer
?		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg S. Phipson Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Baron Templer
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg H. Ringwood
 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Archibald Alexander Hamilton
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg H. Ringwood
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Shaw Templer
7–12 October Dublin University Championships [37]
Dublin, Ireland
Hard (Asphalt)
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg James Jackson Sherrard
?		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg William Morgan Jellett Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Henry James Daly
?
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg William Morgan Jellett
 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Henry James Daly
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Richard Manders
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg George Henry Shannon
10 October. [38] [39] Bournemouth CLTC Autumn Tournament
Bournemouth CLTC
Dean Park Cricket Ground
Bournemouth, England
Grass
Singles - Doubles 		Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Hubert James Medlycott
?		 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

November to December

No events

List of tournament winners

Important tournament in bold

Rankings

Source: The Concise History of Tennis, 6th edition, 2016

Karoly Mazak World Rankings for 1878 [40]
#Player
1Flag of England.svg  Patrick Francis Hadow  (ENG)
2Flag of England.svg  Spencer Gore  (ENG)
3Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  William Marshall  (GBR)
4Flag of Scotland.svg  Lestocq Robert Erskine  (SCO)
5Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  C.G. Hamilton  (GBR)

See also

References

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  3. ↑ "Tennis season 1878". thetennisbase.com. Tennis Base, 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. ↑ "Our history". ncetennis.org. Newcastle Emlyn & Adpar Community Tennis Club. 15 July 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
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  9. ↑ "Abolition of Challenge Rounds". EVENING POST. 20 March 1922. Retrieved 6 October 2016– via Papers Past.
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  23. ↑ LAWN TENNIS: STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB TOURNAMENT. "Fine weather favoured the tennis tournament on Friday last 26th July, when there was a large and most influential attendance. The original programme was somewhat curtailed, inasmuch as two matches were withdrawn." Lichfield Mercury. British Newspaper Archives. 2 August 1878. Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. page.5.
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