Waterloo Tournament

The Waterloo Tournament was established in 1881 in Waterloo, Liverpool, Lanacashire England and was played on outdoors grass courts until 1897. Three Wimbledon finalists played this event during the course of its run Richard T. Richardson, Donald Stewart and Frank L. Riseley. The 1883 and 1897 editions were held at Aigburth Cricket Ground, Liverpool.

Notes: 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) [1] in some tournaments not all.

Men's Singles

Included:[2]

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1881	Richard T. Richardson	F.W. Jones	6-0 6-0 [3]
1882	William John Down	R.H. Jones	? [4]
1883 [lower-alpha 1]	Joseph Bruce Ismay	William Gerald Barker	6-3 6-1 [5]
1884	Donald Charles Stewart	William John Bush-Salmon	9-7 6-1 6-2 [6]
1885	Charles Stananought	Jacob Gaitskell Brown	7-5 6-3 5-7 7-5 [7]
1886	Jacob Gaitskell Brown	William Parkfield Wethered	6-3 6-2 2-6 3-6 6-1 [8]
1887 [lower-alpha 2]	Jacob Gaitskell Brown	William Parkfield Wethered	6-3 6-4 2-6 8-6 [9]
1888 [lower-alpha 3]	Jacob Gaitskell Brown	Herbert Chipp	w.o.[10]
1889	John Redfern Deykin	William Dod	6-2 7-5 7-5 [11]
1890	John Redfern Deykin	William Parkfield Wethered	6-0 1-6 6-2 6-2 [12]
1891 [lower-alpha 4]	Jacob Gaitskell Brown	John Redfern Deykin	6-1 6-0 5-7 8-6 [13]
1892 [lower-alpha 5]	Andrew Laurie Macfie	Jacob Gaitskell Brown	3-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 [14]
1893 [lower-alpha 6]	John Charles Kay	Andrew Laurie Macfie	10-8 3-6 6-3 4-6 6-2 [15]
1894 [lower-alpha 7]	T.J. Walmsley	John Charles Kay	? [16]
1895 [lower-alpha 8]	Frank L. Riseley	T.J. Walmsley	6-1 6-1 6-0 [17]
1896 [lower-alpha 9]	Frank L. Riseley	Arthur Henry Riseley	w.o.[18]
1897 [lower-alpha 10]	Frank L. Riseley	Arthur Henry Riseley	0-8 6-4 [19]

• "Tournament – Waterloo". www.tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. 2017.

• Ayre's Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, 1908 to 1938, A. Wallis Myers.
• Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Longman. London England 1890-1923.
• 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.
• The World of Tennis Annuals , Barrett John, 1970 to 2001.
• The Field Lawn Tennis Calendar. The Field Office. from 1853. London. England

• http://www.tennisarchives.com/Tournaments 1885