1879 women's tennis season

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1879 Women's Tennis season
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DurationApril 1879 – October 1879
Edition4th
Tournaments7
CategoriesNational (1)
Regional (2)
County (1)
Regular (3)
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titles Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg May Langrishe (1)
Flag of England.svg Florence Mardall (1)
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Perry(1)
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Annie Rice (1)
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss A. Ritchie (1)
Most tournament finals Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg May Langrishe (1)
Flag of England.svg Florence Mardall (1)
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Perry(1)
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Annie Rice (1)
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss A. Ritchie (1)
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The 1879 Women's Tennis season [1] was mainly composed of national, regional, county, local regular amateur tournaments. This year seven tennis events for women were staged four of the them in Ireland and two events in England between April and October 1879

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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), [2] 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 1879 seven tournaments for women were staged five of them in Ireland. In the spring the Earlsfort Terrace Tournament held in Dublin, Ireland is played on asphalt courts featuring a ladies singles and doubles event. Between April and May the newly established Oxford University Tennis Championship was held in Oxford, England that included a women's event. [3] In June the Irish Championships are established, [4] this was the first major national championships in the world to feature not only a women's singles event won by a May Langrishe, but also a mixed doubles event. [5] In August the Armagh Tennis Tournament is staged at the Archery Lawn Tennis Club, Armagh that features a mixed doubles event.

In September 1879 the fourth edition of South of Ireland Championships in Limerick the singles event was won by Annie Rice. [6] The same month the first North of Ireland Championships are staged in Belfast the women's singles was won by Miss C. Ritchie. In October 1879 in England the inaugural East Gloucestershire Championships are held at the Imperial Winter Gardens in Cheltenham, [7] this is first significant tournament in England to feature a women's singles event, that is won by Florence Mardall and, also women's doubles event. In Bermuda the Bermuda Open Tennis Championships are held for the first time, [8] at this time 'open' tournaments usually meant men's and women's players can compete.

At the 1879 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), [9] 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 [10] [11] [12]
National events
Provincial/Regional/State events
County events
Regular events

January to March

No events

April to May

Note: The Oxford University Tennis Championship were held results unknown.

EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter Finalist
May 2 Oxford University Tennis Championship [13]
Oxford University LTC
Oxford, England
Grass
Singles 		??
May 2. Earlsfort Terrace Tournament
Dublin, Ireland
Outdoor
Asphalt
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Perry
def		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Costello Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg May Langrishe
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Shaw		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Casey
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Lane
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Scovell

June

EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter Finalist
Jun 10 Irish Championships
Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club
Dublin, Ireland
Outdoor
Grass
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg May Langrishe [14]
6-2, 0–6, 8-6		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg D. Meldon Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Casey Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Connie Butler
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Adela Langrishe
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Costello **
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg E Elliott
6-4, 6-4		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Adela Langrishe
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Charles D Barry

July

No events

August

EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemifinalistQuarter finalist
Aug 13. Armagh ALTC Tournament
Archery Lawn Tennis Club
Armagh, Ireland
Grass
Singles - Doubles 		Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Miss Cope **
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg A. J. Wilson **
def		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Bayly
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Robert Shaw Templer

September

EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter Finalist
Sep 26. South of Ireland Championships
Limerick, Ireland
Outdoor
Grass
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Annie Rice
6–3, 6-4		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg T. Rice Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Grubbe
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss Smith
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Mrs Armstrong **
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Henry E. Tombe
7-5, 6-2		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Annie Rice
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Mr Baker
Sep 30. North of Ireland Championships
Ormeau Cricket Ground
Belfast, Ireland
Outdoor
Grass
Singles 		Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss A. Ritchie
6–3, 6-4		 Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Miss C. Ritchie

October

EndedTournamentWinnerFinalistSemi FinalistQuarter Finalist
Oct 11 East Gloucestershire Championships
Cheltenham, England
Outdoor
Grass
Singles 		Flag of England.svg Florence Mardall
6-5, 6–4, 3–6, 3–6, 6-3		 Flag of England.svg Marian Bradley Flag of England.svg Mary Abercrombie
Flag of England.svg Ellen Maltby		 Flag of England.svg Clara Hill
Flag of England.svg Ellen Ramsay
Flag of England.svg Miss Shand
Flag of England.svg Miss Willoughby
Flag of England.svg Mary Abercrombie *
Flag of England.svg Marian Bradley
6-2, 6–3, 6-2		 Flag of England.svg Clara Hill
Flag of England.svg Florence Mardall

November to December

No events

Tournament winners

Singles

This is list of winners sorted by number of singles titles (major titles in bold)

Doubles

This is list of winners sorted by number of doubles titles

Mix Doubles

This is list of winners sorted by number of doubles titles (major titles in bold)

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