Gore Court Championships

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Gore Court Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1877;146 years ago (1877)
Abolished1926;97 years ago (1926)
Location Sittingbourne, Kent, England
VenueSittingbourne and Gore Court Archery & Lawn Tennis Club
SurfaceGrass

The Gore Court Championships [1] was a men's and women's grass court tennis event established in 1877 that ran until at least 1926. The tournament was organised by the Sittingbourne and Gore Court Archery and Lawn Tennis Club, [2] and held at Gore Court a sports ground in Sittingbourne, Kent, England.

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History

The Sittingbourne and Gore Court Archery and Lawn Tennis club was founded in 1875. In 1877 it staged its first lawn tennis tournament. [3] In 1882 a ladies's singles open event was staged won by a Miss Ray. [4] In 1899 the men's singles title final featured the 1898 singles champion from the Natal Championships Charles Edward Finlason and Alfred Egerton Maynard Taylor, [5] the match ended with them dividing the title [6] The tournament was still being staged up to at least 1926, but then appears to have been abolished. [7]

This short but popular tournament occasionally featured a women's singles event, but did regularly feature women's doubles and mixed doubles. Former winners of the gentleman's singles has included Ernest Wool Lewis, Wilberforce Eaves and Roy Allen.

Venue

A description of the Sittingbourne and Gore Court Archery and Lawn Tennis that appeared in the Sittingbourne, Milton, and District Directory 1908 to 1909:

Gore Court Archery and Lawn Tennis Club. The headquarters and grounds of this old-established Club are situated at Gore Court Park, Sittingbourne. The ground is open for play each afternoon and evening during the summer months. An open lawn tennis tournament takes place in connection with the Club, generally the third week in August of each year..

SITTINGBOURNE, Sittingbourne, Milton, and District Directory 1908/09, Reprinted 1980 by W.J. Parrett Ltd, Sittingbourne. ISBN 0-9507107-0-9

Finals

The Gore Court cricket grounds location of this tournament. Gore Court Cricket Club - geograph.org.uk - 676238.jpg
The Gore Court cricket grounds location of this tournament.
Incomplete Roll

Mens Singles

Included: [8]

YearWinnerRunner-upScore
1881 Flag of England.svg W.H. Patterson Flag of the United Kingdom.svg J. Patterson5-4 6-1
1882 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg J.R. Daniell Flag of the United Kingdom.svg J. Langley6-4, 6-4, 6-4
1883 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg H.S. Cooper Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Rev. F. Greenfield2 sets to 1
1884 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg C.C.J. Perry Flag of the United Kingdom.svg C. Igglesden6-,3 7-6, 6-4
1885 Flag of England.svg Ernest Wool Lewis Flag of England.svg Ernest George Meers 6-1, 6-2
1886 Flag of England.svg Ernest George Meers Flag of England.svg Charles Gladstone Eames shared title
1887 Flag of England.svg Ernest George Meers Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Wilberforce Eaves 6-4,3-6, 6-3, 6-4
1888 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Wilberforce Eaves Flag of the United Kingdom.svg D. Fuller5-6, 6-3, 6-5
1893 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg D. Fuller Flag of the United Kingdom.svg L. Tuke6-4, 8-6
1899 Flag of the Cape Colony 1876-1910.svg Charles Edward Finlason Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alfred Egerton Maynard Taylordivided title [9]
1901 Flag of England.svg Roy Allen Flag of England.svg Archibald John McNairw.o.
1903 Flag of England.svg Roy Allen Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Alfred Beamish 6-2, 6-0

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