1886 Men's Tennis tour

1886 Men's tennis season

Willoughby Hamilton is the joint title leader this year with Britain's Ernest Wool Lewis
Details
Duration	24 April – 12 November
Edition	10th
Tournaments	85 (Amateur)
Categories	Important 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 →

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.

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.

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

April

Date	Tournament	Winner	Finalist	Semi finalist	Quarter finalist
17 April	British 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 April	Seventh 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 May	Dublin University Championships[9] Dublin Ireland Hard	Eyre Chatterton 6-3 6-4 6-0	David Grainger Chaytor
10 - 17 May	Fitzwilliam Club Championships[10] Dublin Ireland Hard	Willoughby Hamilton 6-3 6-4 6-0	Eyre Chatterton
8 - 18 May	New 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 May	Ceylon Championships[12] Nuwara Eliya Ceylon Clay	Charles Edward De Fonblanque 6-3 6-4 6-0	Edward George Farquharson
17 - 23 May	Fitwilliam Purse Dublin Ireland Grass	David Grainger Chaytor 3-6 6-2 6-4 6-2	Francis Woodcock Perry
24 - 29 May	Irish 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 June	Whitehouse Tournament [14] Edinburgh, Great Britain Grass Singles - Doubles	Herbert Bowes-Lyon 6-1 8-6 6-1	George Nelson Stenhouse
1 - 6 June	Kent 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 June	New York Lawn Tennis Club Tournament New York City, United States Grass Singles - Doubles	Oliver Campbell 6-3 6-0 6-0
31 May - 6 June	West of England Championships[16] Bath, Great Britain Grass Singles - Doubles	James Dwight 6-4 6-3 6-4	Henry Grove
7 June	Oxford 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 June	Middle 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 June	East Gloucestershire Championships[19] Cheltenham, Great Britain Grass Singles - Doubles	Ernest de Sylly Hamilton Browne 6-3 6-4 6-4	James Dwight
15 - 19 June	Fall 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 June	Scottish 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 June	Welsh 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 June	Championship 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 June	Orange 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 June	Waterloo 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 June	Cambridgeshire Lawn Tennis Tournament Cambridge, Great Britain Singles - Doubles	William Nevill Cobbold Percy Bateman divided title	William Nevill Cobbold 3rd place
5 June	Clifton Tournament[27] Clifton, Bristol, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles	Charles Lacy Sweet w.o.	Mark Anthony Hartnell
21 - 26 June	Northern 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 June	Warriston 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 June	Redhill Tournament Redhill, Surrey, Great Britain Outdoor Grass Singles - Doubles	Harry S. Barlow Charles H. Ashe Ross shared title due to bad weather
5 June	New 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 July	New England Championships[32] New Haven, United States Singles - Doubles	Henry Slocum 6-4 6-2 7-5	Frank Beach
13 July	Wimbledon 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 July	Northumberland 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 August	Exmouth Tournament[34] Exmouth, Great Britain Singles - Doubles	Harry Grove 6-2 7-9 6-4 7-5	Henry Edwin Hunter Kent
19 - 21 August	North Western Championships[35] Maline, United States Singles - Doubles	W.N. Armstrong 6-5 6-1 6-2	Harry P. Robinson
23 -28 August	Derbyshire 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 September	South 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 October	Southern Championships [38] Wilmington, United States Singles - Doubles	C. Belmont Davis 6-2 6-1 6-2	E. Porter
9 - 14 October	North 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 October	National Collegiate Championships[40] New Haven, United States Singles - Doubles	Godfrey Brinley
22 - 26 October	Victorian Championships[41] Melbourne, Australia Grass Singles - Doubles	Walter John Carre Riddell 3-6 6-2 6-4 6-4	Dudley Webb

December

Date	Tournament	Winner	Finalist	Semi finalist	Quarter finalist
28 - 30 December	New 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

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 G[ill (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.

Attribution

This article contains some copied and translated content from this article https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornei di tennis maschili nel 1886

External links

• http://www.tennisarchives.com/tournaments/search for any tournament/1886