Rollo
Jul 20th, 2010, 04:56 PM
1886
January through June
Many thanks to Elegos and Newmark for their contributions to this thread.
CR=Challenge Round. Under the challenge round system the previous year's winner, the holder of the title, "sat out" until the challenger won the final (often called the All-Comers Final).
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May 6-15, New South Wales Championships, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Grass)
R1: Annie Lamb d. Miss Andrews 6-0 6-2
R1: Eva Rodd d. Beatrice Metcalfe 6-4 6-4
R2: Lamb d Rodd 7-5 6-3
R2: Zilla Scott d Beaumont 6-1 6-0
R2: Eliza Fitzgerald d McLean 6-4 6-3
R2: C Green d H Beaumont 6-0 6-0
SF: Lamb d Scott 6-4 6-3
SF: Green d Fitzgerald 6-3 6-1
FI: Greene d Lamb 63 62
CR: C. Greene d. Annie Lamb (holder) 6-2
Only one set appears to have been required to win in the ladies singles final.
The match, which took an hour, was thoroughly well contested and watched with great interest by a large concourse of onlookers. Miss Green played a clever game in which her superior powers of 'cutting' and 'serving' stood her in good stead. Miss Lamb was as able an exponent of volleying for a lady as one could wish to see, while Miss Green's cutting from the base lines was very fast and accurate.
An analysis of games and strokes gives Miss Greene 6 games and 37 strokes to Miss Lamb's 3 games and 28 strokes in the first set, and 6 games and 34 strokes to Lamb's 2 games and 21 strokes in the second set."
Doubles
R1: Eliza Fitzgerald/Edith F Fox d Paterson/Mrs Andrew 6-1 6-1
R1: Annie Lamb/Green d Zilla Scott/Lillian Scott 6-4 8-6
R1: E/H Beaumont bye
R1: Eva Rodd/Beatrice Metcalfe bye
SF: Metcalfe/Rodd d Beaumont/Beaumont 6-1 6-0
SF: Lamb/Green d Fitzgerald/Fox 6-3 6-4
FI: Lamb/Green d Metcalfe/Rodd 6-1 6-4
Mixed Doubles
1R: C Smith/Beatrice Metcalfe d Bartram/Beaumont 6-2 6-0
1R: LA Whyte/Scott d HA Merewether/Busby 6-1 6-4
1R: Edith F Fox/Harold S Fox d Everett/L Beaumont 6-3 6-2
1R: Wallington (GB)/Cox d Salmon GBR/Mrs Andrew 6-1 6-1
1R: Eliza Fitzgerald/Robert Fitzgerald d Major Pearson/Miss Manning 6-2 6-4
1R: Riddell/Greene d Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson/Scott 6-2 6-3
1R: Eva Rodd/Charles Metcalfe bye
1R: Charles W Cropper/Maclean bye
QF: Whyte/Scott d Clive Smith/Metcalfe 6-2 6-2
QF: Fitzgerald/Fitzgerald d Riddell/Greene 6-0 5-7 6-2
QF: EW Wallington GBR/Cox d Fox/Fox 6-2 5-7 6-2
QF: Metcalfe/Rodd d Cropper/McLean 7-5 9-11 6-3
SF: Whyte/Scott d Wallington GBR/Cox 6-3 6-3
SF: Fitzgerald/Fitzgerald d Metcalfe/Rodd 6-4 4-6 9-7
FI: Whyte/Scott d Fitzgerald/Fitzgerald 6-1 6-5 (not a typo - though odd as other rounds were advantage sets)
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began May 20, West of Scotland Championships, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland (Grass)
FI: Jane Meikle d. J. MacKenzie 6-4 5-7 6-0
MX: Jane Meikle/W.W. Chamberlain d. J. MacKenzie/John Galbraith Horn 6-1 6-2
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May 24-29, Irish Championships, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, Ireland (Grass)
Draw=8
1R: May Langrishe d. Mabel Cahill 6-0 6-1
1R: Connie Butler d. Miss Exham 6-2 6-0
1R: Beatrice Langrishe d. Adela Langrishe 6-3 6-4
1R: Louisa Martin d. Miss Hodson 6-0 6-0
SF: May Langrishe d. Connie Butler 6-1 6-3
SF: Louisa Martin d. Beatrice Langrishe 6-1 6-2
FI: May Langrishe d. Louisa Martin 6-3 6-4
DF: Connie Butler/Louisa Martin d. Beatrice Langrishe/May Langrishe 6-3 6-4
Mixed Doubles
SF: May Langrishe/Eyre Chatterton d. d. Louisa Martin/Willoughby Hamilton 6-4 6-1
FI: May Langrishe/Eyre Chatterton d. Adela Langrishe/Toler Garvey 6-0 6-2 6-1
From the “Irish Times”, 20 May 1886 (originally posted by Mark)
“It was a pity that the two best matches of the afternoon – the Ladies’ Championship and the Gentlemen’s Championship – should have to be played off simultaneously, but from one cause or another the arrangement was unavoidable, and so spectators had to divide their attention between the two contests. The opponents in the ladies’ game were Miss May Langrishe, an ex-holder of the championship, and Miss Martin, who it will be remembered gained a very ready victory over her rival of Saturday at last year’s tournament. Mindful of the improvements displayed by Miss Langrishe in her previous matches during the week, many were led to anticipate a close match, but no one was prepared for the clever victory achieved by the lady named.
“It was quite evident she held the winning card throughout the first set, in which she only allowed her opponent the second, fourth and seventh games, but Miss Martin showed up so well in the early part of the second set that at one time it seemed certain the three sets would have to be exhausted to decide this match. Miss Langrishe won the first game, but Miss Martin then rattling off four in succession, amongst them one love game, the score was called ‘4 games to 1, Miss Martin leads’. However, Miss Langrishe, playing in irresistible fashion, clean outplayed her opponent at every point, and with a sequence of five games, ran out the set by 6 to 4. Included in the winner’s scores were two love games.
“Miss Langrishe played better than ever she has done before, and her victory is more attributable to this than to the slight falling away perceptible in Miss Martin’s game. Her returns were very severe, and besides placing them beautifully along the sidelines, she invariably kept them to her opponent’s backhand. Miss Martin’s returns, on the contrary, lacked much of their usual strength, but at times she showed quite up to her best form.”
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May 31-June 3, West of England Championships, Bath, Somerset, England (Grass)
?R Maud Watson d Blanche Bingley ????
SF: Maud Watson d Louisa Martin (Ire) 6-3 3-6 6-3
FI: Lottie Dod d. Maud Watson 7-5 6-4
DF: Ann Dod/Lottie Dod d. G. Gibbs/Edith Gurney 6-1 8-6
MX:Margaret Bracewell/ William Renshaw d. Blanche Bingley/James Dwight (US) 5-7 7-5 6-4
Maud Watson's first defeat since 1881 in singles. Watson had won 54 straight matches in that time, dropping 12 sets. Pictures indicate that most spectators stood crowded about the court!
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Circa June 1-4, Whitehouse, Edinburgh, Scotland (Grass)
FI: Jane Meikle d. Miss Meikle 6-2 6-2
MX: J. Ferguson/A. Steel d. E. Ferguson/W. Ferguson 6-3 6-2
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June 7-13, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
2R: Blanche Bingley d Lottie Dod 6-1 6-1
SF: Maud Watson d Blanche Bingley 6-3 6-3
FI: Louisa Martin d. Maud Watson 6-4 6-4
DF: Blanche Bingley/Margaret Bracewell d. Miss Holden/D. Patterson 6-4 6-4
MX: Margaret Bracewell/William Renshaw d. Blanche Bingley/James Dwight (US) 6-4 6-4
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began June 14, Welsh Championships, Penarth, Wales (Grass)
FI: L. Browne d. L. Stephens 4-6 6-1 6-3 6-2
This was the first Welsh Championships tournament. There was no women’s doubles event at this tournament for a number of years. The women’s singles final was initially played over the best of five sets.
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Jun 15-19 London Athletic Club Tournament [London Championships], Stamford Bridge (Grass)
FI: Blanche Bingley d. Edith Davies 6-1 6-1
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mid-June, Scottish Championships, Edinburgh, Scotland (Grass)
FI: M. Boulton d. J. MacKenzie 3-6 6-0 6-2 4-6 6-2
There was a best-of-five-sets final for this, the first women’s singles event at the Scottish Championships. The tournament had begun in 1878.
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began June 21, Clifton, Bristol, Avon, England (Grass)
FI: Beatrice Langrishe d. Miss Pope 6-2 7-5
MX: Miss Pope/James Baldwin d. Mrs Hill/J. C. Kay 8-6 6-4
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began June 24, Redhill, Surrey, England (Grass)
FI: J. Wray d. Miss Wing 6-1 6-2
MX: Miss Cobbold/Harold S. Stone d. J. Wray/William C. Taylor 5-6 6-5 6-4
* As is often the case with early tournaments, it has not been possible to find the players' first names.
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June 21-26, Northern Tournament, Liverpool, England (Grass)
CR: Maud Watson (holder) d. Lottie Dod 7-5 6-3
DF: Ann Dod/Lottie Dod d. Miss Cliff/May Langrishe 6-2 6-1
MX: Margaret Bracewell/William Renshaw d. Lottie Dod/Harry Grove 3-6 6-2 6-3
Watson gains revenge before an overflow crowd of 1,500. The mixed doubles final result comes from "Pastime":
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began June 28, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England (Grass)
FI: Blanche Bingley d. Lilian Watson 6-0 6-2
DF: Blanche Bingley/Lilian Watson d. Bertha Steedman/Mary Steedman 6-4 6-2
XDF: John Deykin/Maud Watson d. William Renshaw/Margaret Bracewell 7-5 6-1 4-6 2-6 8-6
* Maud Watson did not play in the either the women's singles or women's doubles events at this tournament but, together with John Deykin, was victorious in the mixed doubles final after what was a long five-set struggle.
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Unknown date, Ealing Lawn Tennis Tournament, GB
FI Charlotte Cooper won
Unknown date Natal Championships, Pietermartizburg, SA
FI M. Grant d. L. Button 6-3 6-2
January through June
Many thanks to Elegos and Newmark for their contributions to this thread.
CR=Challenge Round. Under the challenge round system the previous year's winner, the holder of the title, "sat out" until the challenger won the final (often called the All-Comers Final).
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May 6-15, New South Wales Championships, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Grass)
R1: Annie Lamb d. Miss Andrews 6-0 6-2
R1: Eva Rodd d. Beatrice Metcalfe 6-4 6-4
R2: Lamb d Rodd 7-5 6-3
R2: Zilla Scott d Beaumont 6-1 6-0
R2: Eliza Fitzgerald d McLean 6-4 6-3
R2: C Green d H Beaumont 6-0 6-0
SF: Lamb d Scott 6-4 6-3
SF: Green d Fitzgerald 6-3 6-1
FI: Greene d Lamb 63 62
CR: C. Greene d. Annie Lamb (holder) 6-2
Only one set appears to have been required to win in the ladies singles final.
The match, which took an hour, was thoroughly well contested and watched with great interest by a large concourse of onlookers. Miss Green played a clever game in which her superior powers of 'cutting' and 'serving' stood her in good stead. Miss Lamb was as able an exponent of volleying for a lady as one could wish to see, while Miss Green's cutting from the base lines was very fast and accurate.
An analysis of games and strokes gives Miss Greene 6 games and 37 strokes to Miss Lamb's 3 games and 28 strokes in the first set, and 6 games and 34 strokes to Lamb's 2 games and 21 strokes in the second set."
Doubles
R1: Eliza Fitzgerald/Edith F Fox d Paterson/Mrs Andrew 6-1 6-1
R1: Annie Lamb/Green d Zilla Scott/Lillian Scott 6-4 8-6
R1: E/H Beaumont bye
R1: Eva Rodd/Beatrice Metcalfe bye
SF: Metcalfe/Rodd d Beaumont/Beaumont 6-1 6-0
SF: Lamb/Green d Fitzgerald/Fox 6-3 6-4
FI: Lamb/Green d Metcalfe/Rodd 6-1 6-4
Mixed Doubles
1R: C Smith/Beatrice Metcalfe d Bartram/Beaumont 6-2 6-0
1R: LA Whyte/Scott d HA Merewether/Busby 6-1 6-4
1R: Edith F Fox/Harold S Fox d Everett/L Beaumont 6-3 6-2
1R: Wallington (GB)/Cox d Salmon GBR/Mrs Andrew 6-1 6-1
1R: Eliza Fitzgerald/Robert Fitzgerald d Major Pearson/Miss Manning 6-2 6-4
1R: Riddell/Greene d Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson/Scott 6-2 6-3
1R: Eva Rodd/Charles Metcalfe bye
1R: Charles W Cropper/Maclean bye
QF: Whyte/Scott d Clive Smith/Metcalfe 6-2 6-2
QF: Fitzgerald/Fitzgerald d Riddell/Greene 6-0 5-7 6-2
QF: EW Wallington GBR/Cox d Fox/Fox 6-2 5-7 6-2
QF: Metcalfe/Rodd d Cropper/McLean 7-5 9-11 6-3
SF: Whyte/Scott d Wallington GBR/Cox 6-3 6-3
SF: Fitzgerald/Fitzgerald d Metcalfe/Rodd 6-4 4-6 9-7
FI: Whyte/Scott d Fitzgerald/Fitzgerald 6-1 6-5 (not a typo - though odd as other rounds were advantage sets)
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began May 20, West of Scotland Championships, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland (Grass)
FI: Jane Meikle d. J. MacKenzie 6-4 5-7 6-0
MX: Jane Meikle/W.W. Chamberlain d. J. MacKenzie/John Galbraith Horn 6-1 6-2
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May 24-29, Irish Championships, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, Ireland (Grass)
Draw=8
1R: May Langrishe d. Mabel Cahill 6-0 6-1
1R: Connie Butler d. Miss Exham 6-2 6-0
1R: Beatrice Langrishe d. Adela Langrishe 6-3 6-4
1R: Louisa Martin d. Miss Hodson 6-0 6-0
SF: May Langrishe d. Connie Butler 6-1 6-3
SF: Louisa Martin d. Beatrice Langrishe 6-1 6-2
FI: May Langrishe d. Louisa Martin 6-3 6-4
DF: Connie Butler/Louisa Martin d. Beatrice Langrishe/May Langrishe 6-3 6-4
Mixed Doubles
SF: May Langrishe/Eyre Chatterton d. d. Louisa Martin/Willoughby Hamilton 6-4 6-1
FI: May Langrishe/Eyre Chatterton d. Adela Langrishe/Toler Garvey 6-0 6-2 6-1
From the “Irish Times”, 20 May 1886 (originally posted by Mark)
“It was a pity that the two best matches of the afternoon – the Ladies’ Championship and the Gentlemen’s Championship – should have to be played off simultaneously, but from one cause or another the arrangement was unavoidable, and so spectators had to divide their attention between the two contests. The opponents in the ladies’ game were Miss May Langrishe, an ex-holder of the championship, and Miss Martin, who it will be remembered gained a very ready victory over her rival of Saturday at last year’s tournament. Mindful of the improvements displayed by Miss Langrishe in her previous matches during the week, many were led to anticipate a close match, but no one was prepared for the clever victory achieved by the lady named.
“It was quite evident she held the winning card throughout the first set, in which she only allowed her opponent the second, fourth and seventh games, but Miss Martin showed up so well in the early part of the second set that at one time it seemed certain the three sets would have to be exhausted to decide this match. Miss Langrishe won the first game, but Miss Martin then rattling off four in succession, amongst them one love game, the score was called ‘4 games to 1, Miss Martin leads’. However, Miss Langrishe, playing in irresistible fashion, clean outplayed her opponent at every point, and with a sequence of five games, ran out the set by 6 to 4. Included in the winner’s scores were two love games.
“Miss Langrishe played better than ever she has done before, and her victory is more attributable to this than to the slight falling away perceptible in Miss Martin’s game. Her returns were very severe, and besides placing them beautifully along the sidelines, she invariably kept them to her opponent’s backhand. Miss Martin’s returns, on the contrary, lacked much of their usual strength, but at times she showed quite up to her best form.”
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May 31-June 3, West of England Championships, Bath, Somerset, England (Grass)
?R Maud Watson d Blanche Bingley ????
SF: Maud Watson d Louisa Martin (Ire) 6-3 3-6 6-3
FI: Lottie Dod d. Maud Watson 7-5 6-4
DF: Ann Dod/Lottie Dod d. G. Gibbs/Edith Gurney 6-1 8-6
MX:Margaret Bracewell/ William Renshaw d. Blanche Bingley/James Dwight (US) 5-7 7-5 6-4
Maud Watson's first defeat since 1881 in singles. Watson had won 54 straight matches in that time, dropping 12 sets. Pictures indicate that most spectators stood crowded about the court!
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Circa June 1-4, Whitehouse, Edinburgh, Scotland (Grass)
FI: Jane Meikle d. Miss Meikle 6-2 6-2
MX: J. Ferguson/A. Steel d. E. Ferguson/W. Ferguson 6-3 6-2
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June 7-13, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
2R: Blanche Bingley d Lottie Dod 6-1 6-1
SF: Maud Watson d Blanche Bingley 6-3 6-3
FI: Louisa Martin d. Maud Watson 6-4 6-4
DF: Blanche Bingley/Margaret Bracewell d. Miss Holden/D. Patterson 6-4 6-4
MX: Margaret Bracewell/William Renshaw d. Blanche Bingley/James Dwight (US) 6-4 6-4
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began June 14, Welsh Championships, Penarth, Wales (Grass)
FI: L. Browne d. L. Stephens 4-6 6-1 6-3 6-2
This was the first Welsh Championships tournament. There was no women’s doubles event at this tournament for a number of years. The women’s singles final was initially played over the best of five sets.
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Jun 15-19 London Athletic Club Tournament [London Championships], Stamford Bridge (Grass)
FI: Blanche Bingley d. Edith Davies 6-1 6-1
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mid-June, Scottish Championships, Edinburgh, Scotland (Grass)
FI: M. Boulton d. J. MacKenzie 3-6 6-0 6-2 4-6 6-2
There was a best-of-five-sets final for this, the first women’s singles event at the Scottish Championships. The tournament had begun in 1878.
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began June 21, Clifton, Bristol, Avon, England (Grass)
FI: Beatrice Langrishe d. Miss Pope 6-2 7-5
MX: Miss Pope/James Baldwin d. Mrs Hill/J. C. Kay 8-6 6-4
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began June 24, Redhill, Surrey, England (Grass)
FI: J. Wray d. Miss Wing 6-1 6-2
MX: Miss Cobbold/Harold S. Stone d. J. Wray/William C. Taylor 5-6 6-5 6-4
* As is often the case with early tournaments, it has not been possible to find the players' first names.
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June 21-26, Northern Tournament, Liverpool, England (Grass)
CR: Maud Watson (holder) d. Lottie Dod 7-5 6-3
DF: Ann Dod/Lottie Dod d. Miss Cliff/May Langrishe 6-2 6-1
MX: Margaret Bracewell/William Renshaw d. Lottie Dod/Harry Grove 3-6 6-2 6-3
Watson gains revenge before an overflow crowd of 1,500. The mixed doubles final result comes from "Pastime":
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began June 28, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England (Grass)
FI: Blanche Bingley d. Lilian Watson 6-0 6-2
DF: Blanche Bingley/Lilian Watson d. Bertha Steedman/Mary Steedman 6-4 6-2
XDF: John Deykin/Maud Watson d. William Renshaw/Margaret Bracewell 7-5 6-1 4-6 2-6 8-6
* Maud Watson did not play in the either the women's singles or women's doubles events at this tournament but, together with John Deykin, was victorious in the mixed doubles final after what was a long five-set struggle.
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Unknown date, Ealing Lawn Tennis Tournament, GB
FI Charlotte Cooper won
Unknown date Natal Championships, Pietermartizburg, SA
FI M. Grant d. L. Button 6-3 6-2