1886 Men's Tennis tour

The 1886 Men's tennis tour was composed of the tenth annual pre-open era tour incorporating 85 tournaments.[1] The tour began in April in London, Great Britain and ended in December in Napier, New Zealand.

1886 Men's tennis season
Willoughby Hamilton is the joint title leader this year with Britain's Ernest Wool Lewis
Details
Duration24 April – 12 November
Edition10th
Tournaments85 (Amateur)
CategoriesImportant
National
Regional or State
County
Local or Other
Achievements (singles)
Most tournament titles Willoughby Hamilton(4)
Ernest Wool Lewis(4)
Most tournament finals Harry Grove(7)
1885
1887

Summary of tour

In the four most important tournaments of the year Herbert Lawford win a third successive Irish Lawn Tennis Championships title in Dublin beating Willoughby Hamilton in four sets. William Renshaw wins a sixth consecutive Wimbledon Championship defeating Irish Champion Herbert Lawford in four sets. At the Northern Championships in Liverpool, Harry Grove beats defending champion James Dwight in three straight sets. In the United States Dick Sears wins a sixth consecutive US National Championship beating Robert Livingston Beeckman in four sets.

In the United States the sectional tournaments the New England Championships, Northwestern Championships and Southern Championships are all staged for the first time this year. In New Zealand the New Zealand Championships are held for the first time at Napier, New Zealand.

Irish player Willoughby Hamilton and British player Ernest Wool Lewis were joint title leaders this season winning 4 titles each. Harry Grove reached the most finals with 7 in total winning 3 of them.

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),[2] in some tournaments not all.

* Indicates challenger

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

Key

Important tournaments[3][4][5][6]
National tournaments
State Regional tournaments
County tournaments
Local tournaments

January

No events

February

No events

March

No events'

April

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
17 AprilBritish Covered Court Championships[7]
London, Great Britain
Hard (indoor)
Singles - Doubles
Ernest Lake Williams
6-2 1-6 5-7 6-4 6-4
Herbert Lawford
17 AprilSeventh Regiment Tournament[8]
7th Regiment LTC, New York City, United States
Singles - Doubles
Valentine Gill Hall
6-5 6-2
?

May

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
10 - 15 MayDublin University Championships[9]
Dublin
Ireland
Hard
Eyre Chatterton
6-3 6-4 6-0
David Grainger Chaytor
10 - 17 MayFitzwilliam Club Championships[10]
Dublin
Ireland
Hard
Willoughby Hamilton
6-3 6-4 6-0
Eyre Chatterton
8 - 18 MayNew South Wales Championships[11]
Sydney, Australia
Singles - Doubles
Charles William Cropper
6-0, 6-0, 5-7, 8-6
William John Bush-Salmon
R. D. Fitzgerald
L. A. Whyte
Charles T. Metcalfe
Walter John Carre Riddell
H. E. Merewether
J. R. King
H. W. Bartram
12 - 20 MayCeylon Championships[12]
Nuwara Eliya
Ceylon
Clay
Charles Edward De Fonblanque
6-3 6-4 6-0
Edward George Farquharson
17 - 23 MayFitwilliam Purse
Dublin
Ireland
Grass
David Grainger Chaytor
3-6 6-2 6-4 6-2
Francis Woodcock Perry
24 - 29 MayIrish Lawn Tennis Championships[13]
Dublin, Ireland
Grass
Herbert Lawford
5-7 6-4 6-4 7-5
Eyre Chatterton James Dwight
Toler Garvey
Tom Campion
Thomas Harrison Griffiths
H.J. Maguire
Ronald M. McDougall
Challenger
Willoughby Hamilton

June

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
1- 4 JuneWhitehouse Tournament[14]
Edinburgh, Great Britain
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Herbert Bowes-Lyon
6-1 8-6 6-1
George Nelson Stenhouse
1 - 6 JuneKent Championships[15]
Beckenham, Great Britain
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Herbert Chipp
6-4 3-6 6-3 2-6 6-3
Edward James Avory
31 May - 6 JuneNew York Lawn Tennis Club Tournament
New York City, United States
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Oliver Campbell
6-3 6-0 6-0
31 May - 6 JuneWest of England Championships[16]
Bath, Great Britain
Grass
Singles - Doubles
James Dwight
6-4 6-3 6-4
Henry Grove
7 JuneOxford University Tournament[17]
Oxford, Great Britain
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Howard Pease
2-6 6-3 6-2 4-6 8-6
Thomas Musgrave Burton
9- 12 JuneMiddle States Championships[18]
Hoboken, NJ, United States
Singles - Doubles
Robert L. Beeckman
1-6 8-6 6-2 6-8 6-1
William E. Glyn
7 -13 JuneEast Gloucestershire Championships[19]
Cheltenham, Great Britain
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Ernest de Sylly Hamilton Browne
6-3 6-4 6-4
James Dwight
15 - 19 JuneFall Open Tournament Far and Near LTC[20]
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
United States
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Robert L. Beeckman
6-0 retired
James Baldwin
14 - 19 JuneScottish Championships[21][22]
Edinburgh, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Patrick Bowes-Lyon
6-1 4-6 6-1 6-1
Archibald Thomson James H. Aitken
George Nelson Stenhouse
Walter William Chamberlain
Charles R. A. Howden
George Kerr
Arthur Nevile John Story
Challenge round
Herbert Bowes-Lyon
14 - 20 JuneWelsh Championships
Penarth, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Ernest de Sylly Hamilton Browne
6-0 retired
James Baldwin W.M. Brownlee
Charles Lacy Sweet
William Gascoyne Dalziel
E.W. David
John Redfern Deykin
D.D. Rees
15 - 19 JuneChampionship of London[23]
London, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Ernest Lewis
7-5 6-1 6-3
Harry Grove
Challenger
Charles Hoadley Ashe Ross
16 -19 JuneOrange Spring Tournament[24][25]
Montrose, South Orange, New Jersey,
United States
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Robert Livingston Beeckman
6-4 3-6 6-3 2-6 6-3
/ William Edward Glyn
16–19 JuneWaterloo Tournament[26]
Liverpool, Great Britain
Outdoor
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Jacob Gaitskell Brown
6-3 6-2 2-6 3-6 6-1
William Parkfield Wethered J.E. Edmondson
Beresford St George Verschoyle
J.M. Draper
G.R. Edgecombe
C.E. Edmondson
E. Harley
Challenger
Charles Stananought
19 JuneCambridgeshire Lawn Tennis Tournament
Cambridge, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
William Nevill Cobbold
Percy Bateman
divided title
William Nevill Cobbold
3rd place
5 JuneClifton Tournament[27]
Clifton, Bristol, Great Britain
Outdoor
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Charles Lacy Sweet
w.o.
Mark Anthony Hartnell
21 - 26 JuneNorthern Championships[28]
Liverpool, Great Britain
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Harry Grove
6-4 6-3 6-1
William Parkfield Wethered W. R. Craig
Ernest Renshaw
Jacob Gaitskell Brown
A.P. Jones
Charles Frederick Latham
Andrew Laurie Macfie
Challenge round
James Dwight
23 -26 JuneWarriston Park[29]
Edinburgh, Great Britain
Grass
Herbert Bowes-Lyon
6-3 6-0 ret.
J.P. Smythe George Kerr
Charles Murray
Lewin Venn Alexander
Alfred Aitken Thomson
Pat. Smith
George Nelson Stenhouse
24 - 26 JuneRedhill Tournament
Redhill, Surrey, Great Britain
Outdoor
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Harry S. Barlow
Charles H. Ashe Ross
shared title due to bad weather



5 JuneNew Jersey State Championships[30][31]
Beckenham, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Richard Field Conover
6-4 3-6 6-3 2-6 6-3
R.J. Halsey Peter R. Lyman
Edgar Williams
Peter R. Lyman


July

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
9 JulyNew England Championships[32]
New Haven, United States
Singles - Doubles
Henry Slocum
6-4 6-2 7-5
Frank Beach
13 JulyWimbledon Championships
London, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
William Renshaw
6-0 5-7 6-3 6-4
Herbert Lawford
William Renshaw
Ernest Renshaw
6-3 6-3 4-6 7-5
Claude Farrer
Arthur Stanley
28 - 31 JulyNorthumberland Championships[33]
Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Patrick Bowes-Lyon
6-3 6-0 6-0
Kenneth Ramsden Marley

August

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
2 - 7 AugustExmouth Tournament[34]
Exmouth, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Harry Grove
6-2 7-9 6-4 7-5
Henry Edwin Hunter Kent
19 - 21 AugustNorth Western Championships[35]
St. Paul, MN, United States
Singles - Doubles
W.N. Armstrong
6-5 6-1 6-2
Harry P. Robinson
23 -28 AugustDerbyshire Championships[36]
Buxton, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Thomas Spread Campion
5-7 6-2 6-1 9-7
Percy Bateman Brown
23 - 28 August US National Championships
Newport, United States
Singles - Doubles
Richard Sears
4-6 6-1 6-3 6-4
Robert Livingston Beeckman
Richard Sears
James Dwight
7-5, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4
Howard Taylor
Godfrey Brinley

September

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
30 August - 7 SeptemberSouth of England Championships[37]
Eastbourne, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Ernest Lewis
6-3 6-4 6-0
Herbert Wilberforce

October

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
1 - 3 OctoberSouthern Championships[38]
Wilmington, United States
Singles - Doubles
C. Belmont Davis
6-2 6-1 6-2
E. Porter
9 - 14 OctoberNorth of England Championships[39]
Scarborough, Great Britain
Singles - Doubles
Ernest de Sylly Hamilton Browne
6-3 4-6 6-3 2-6 6-2
Henry Grove
12 - 14 OctoberNational Collegiate Championships[40]
New Haven, United States
Singles - Doubles
Godfrey Brinley
22 - 26 OctoberVictorian Championships[41]
Melbourne, Australia
Grass
Singles - Doubles
Walter John Carre Riddell
3-6 6-2 6-4 6-4
Dudley Webb

November

No events'

December

Date Tournament Winner Finalist Semi finalist Quarter finalist
28 - 30 DecemberNew Zealand Championships[42]
Napier, New Zealand
Singles - Doubles
Percival Clennell Fenwick
6-2 6-0 6-4
E.P. Hudson
Minden Fenwick
Percival Clennell Fenwick

Rankings

Source: The Concise History of Tennis

Karoly Mazak World Rankings for 1886[43]
# Player
1 William Renshaw (GBR)
2 Herbert Lawford (GBR)
3 Ernest Wool Lewis (GBR)
4 Harry Grove (GBR)
5 Ernest Renshaw (GBR)
6 Eyre Chatterton (Ireland)
7 Willoughby Hamilton (Ireland)
8 Richard Sears (USA)

References

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Sources

  • A. Wallis Myers, ed. (1903). Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad (1st ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 5358651.
  • Gillmeister, Heiner (1998). Tennis:Cultural History. London: A&C Black. ISBN 9780718501952.
  • Hall, Valentine Gill (1889). Lawn tennis in America. Biographical sketches of all the prominent players ... knotty points, and all the latest rules and directions governing handicaps, umpires, and rules for playing. New York, NY, USA: New York, D. W. Granbery & Co.
  • Lake, Robert J. (2014). A Social History of Tennis in Britain: Volume 5 of Routledge Research in Sports History. Routledge:. ISBN 9781134445578.
  • Mazak, Karoly (2017). The Concise History of Tennis. Independently published. ISBN 9781549746475.
  • Nauright, John; Parrish, Charles (2012). Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781598843002.
  • Nieuwland, Alex (2009–2017). "Tournaments - Search for Tournament - Year - 1886". www.tennisarchives.com. Harlingen, Netherlands: Idzznew BV.
  • Paret, Jahial Parmly; Allen, J. P.; Alexander, Frederick B.; Hardy, Samuel [from old catalog (1918). Spalding's tennis annual . New York, NY, USA: New York, American sports publishing company.

Further reading

  • A. Wallis Myers, ed. (1903). Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad (1st ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Ayre's Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, 1908 to 1938, A. Wallis Myers.
  • Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Racing Register, A.H. Baily & Company of Cornhill. London. England. 1860 to 1889
  • Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, A.H. Baily & Company of Cornhill. London. England. 1889 to 1900
  • Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vinton and Co. London. England. 1900 to 1926.
  • British Lawn Tennis and Squash Magazine, 1948 to 1967, British Lawn Tennis Ltd, UK.
  • Dunlop Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, G.P. Hughes, 1939 to 1958, Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd, UK
  • Lawn tennis and Badminton Magazine, 1906 to 1973, UK.
  • Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annuals and Compendia, Lowe, Sir F. Gordon, Eyre & Spottiswoode
  • Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annuals from 1885 to 1922, American Sports Pub. Co, USA.
  • Total Tennis:The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, by Bud Collins, Sport Classic Books, Toronto, Canada, ISBN 0-9731443-4-3
  • The Tennis Book, edited by Michael Bartlett and Bob Gillen, Arbor House, New York, 1981 ISBN 0-87795-344-9
  • The World of Tennis Annuals, Barrett John, 1970 to 2001.

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