Charles Walder Grinstead

Charles Grinstead

Full name	Charles Walder Grinstead
Country (sports)	England
Born	1 December 1860 Teignmouth, England
Died	16 March 1930(1930-03-16) (aged 69) Nikenbah, Australia
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 3 (1884, Karoly Mazak)[1]
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon	F (1884)

Charles Walder Grinstead (1 December 1860 – 16 March 1930) was an English champion tennis player. He reached the quarter finals at Wimbledon 1883. Grinstead reached the Wimbledon All Comers Final in 1884, where he beat Ernest Renshaw before losing to Herbert Lawford.^[2] Together with C. E. Weldon, Grinstead won the Oxford Men's Doubles in 1883. In 1884, the Oxford Men's Doubles event and its trophy were handed over to the All England Club to be known as the All England Men's Doubles as part of the Wimbledon Championships; consequently winners of the Oxford events are included as Wimbledon champions.^[3] He was ranked World No. 3 for 1884 by Karoly Mazak.^[1]

Early life

Charles Walder Grinstead was born on 1 December 1860 in Teignmouth, Devon, England, the son of Charles Grinstead (a Church of England cleric) and his wife Sarah A. (née Stanley).^[4][5] He was educated at the University of Oxford, matriculating in 1879 as a member of Keble College and graduating in 1874 as a member of Charsley's Hall.^[6]

Grand Slam finals

Singles (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Opponent in final	Score in final
Runner-up	1884	Wimbledon Championships	Herbert Lawford	5–7, 6–2, 2–6, 7-9

Career singles titles and finals (21)

Titles won (13)

Year	Tournament	City	Surface	Opponent	Score
1881	Essex Championships	Frinton	Grass	Nalton Womersley	6-2, 6-3[4]
1882	Essex Championships	Brentwood	Grass	Nalton Womersley	6-4 6-3 6-3[4]
1883	Leicester Tennis Tournament	Leicester	Grass	Ernest Lewis	4-6 6-3 6-2 6-1[4]
1883	Sussex County Lawn Tennis Club (Spring)	Brighton	Hard	Donald Charles Stewart	6-3 5-7 7-5 1-6 6-4[4]
1883	Leamington Tennis Tournament	Leamington Spa	Grass	Herbert Wilberforce	8-6 3-6 6-3 3-6 6-3[4]
1883	Exmouth Tennis Tournament	Exmouth	Grass	Edward Lake Williams	6-2 6-5 6-4[4]
1883	Essex Championships	Brentwood	Grass	P. Colley	6-1 6-3 6-4[4]
1883	Edgbaston Tennis Tournament	Edgbaston	Grass	Edward Lake Williams	6-3 6-3[4]
1884	Essex Championships	Colchester	Grass	Edward Cubitt	6-0 6-4[4]
1884	Exmouth Tennis Tournament	Exmouth	Grass	Erskine Gerald Watson	6-2 6-2 6-3[4]
1884	Derbyshire Championships	Buxton	Grass	Ernest Browne	5-7 6-2 6-2 5-7 6-4[4]
1884	Middlesex Championships	Chiswick	Grass	Donald Charles Stewart	6-1 4-6 12-10 6-3[4]
1892	St. Augustine Lawn Tennis Tournament	St. Augustine	Grass	Oliver Campbell	w.o.[4]

Runner up (8)

Year	Tournament	City	Surface	Opponent	Score
1883	South of England Championships	Eastbourne	Grass	Edward Lake Williams	6-1 8-6 4-6 7-5)[4]
1883	Wimbledon Championships	London	Grass	Ernest Renshaw	6-4 6-3 6-3[4]
1883	Sussex County Lawn Tennis Tournament	Brighton	Grass	Herbert Wilberforce	6-3 6-3 8-10 6-4 6-1[4]
1884	Wimbledon Championships	London	Grass	Herbert Lawford	7-5 2-6 6-2 9-7[4]
1884	South of England Championships	London	Grass	Edward Lake Williams	4-6 6-4 6-4 2-6 6-3[4]
1892	Tampa Gulf Championships	London	Asphalt (hard)	Empie Albert Wright	4-6 6-4 6-2 6-2[4]
1894	Tampa Gulf Championships	Tampa	Asphalt (hard)	Robert Duffield Wren	6-5 6-3[4]
1894	St. Augustine Lawn Tennis Tournament	St. Augustine	Grass	Oliver Campbell	w.o.[4]

Later life

Having completed his B.A. at Oxford, Grinstead was intended to become a Church of England cleric like his father. While Grinstead had enjoyed his academic studies and his sport at university, he did not wish to become a cleric. Instead in the spring of 1885, he immigrated to Ontario, Canada where he spent nine months, and then relocated to the United States of America.^[5]

Charles Walder Grinstead died in Nikenbah, Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia on 16 March 1930.^[4] He was buried in Polson Cemetery, Hervey Bay, Queensland.

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