Ernest George Meers

Ernest Meers
Meers (before 1903)
Full name Ernest George Meers
Country (sports)  United Kingdom
Born 1849[1]
Kingsnorth, Kent, England[2]
Died 20 August 1928 (aged 79)[3]
York, Yorkshire, England
Turned pro 1885 (amateur tour)
Retired 1895
Plays Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Singles
Career record 95-57, (62.5%) [4]
Career titles 8 [5]
Highest ranking No. 5 (1888, Karoly Mazak)[6]
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon SF (1895)
US Open SF (1889)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon F (1888)

Ernest George Meers (1849 – 20 August 1928) was an English tennis player, organist and gum merchant.

Biography

Meers was born in Kingsnorth, near Ashford, Kent. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Queen's College, Oxford and was later chairman and managing director of Watts Ltd, gummakers.[7] He married Eliza Rose, daughter of Captain Henry Douglas-Hart of the Madras Army, who was assassinated while serving in India in 1858. They had three sons and two daughters who survived him.[8]


Tennis career

His played first tournament at the North of England Championships in Scarborough in 1884 going out in the round of 16.[9] He reached his first final at Sittingbourne in 1885 losing to Ernest Wool Lewis.[10] Meers played at the Wimbledon Championships between 1890 and 1895, reaching the quarterfinals of the all-comers competition in 1894 and the semifinals in 1895.[11] He reached the semifinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1889 and won the British Covered Court Championships in 1892.[12], His other singles successes included winning the British Covered Court Championships indoors on hard wood courts in 1891.[13] He won the Kent Championships on grass three times (1888, 1890-91).[14] In addition he also won three titles at the Essex Championships (1887-88, 1890) and the Middlesex Championships onetime in 1891.[15] He played his last tournament at the British Covered Court Championships in 1896 going out in the quarter-finals. [16]

He was ranked World No. 5 for 1888 by Károly Mazák.[6]

References

  1. ↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
  2. ↑ 1911 England Census
  3. ↑ Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1987
  4. ↑ Nieuwland, Alex (2017). "Player – Ernest George Meers". www.tennisarchives.com. Harlingen, Netherlands: Tennis Archives. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  5. ↑ Nieuwland, Alex (2017). "Player – Ernest George Meers". www.tennisarchives.com. Harlingen, Netherlands: Tennis Archives. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  6. 1 2 Mazak, Karoly (2010). The Concise History of Tennis, p. 16.
  7. ↑ "Mr. E. G. Meers". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 23 August 1928. p. 14.
  8. ↑ "The Late Mr. E. G. Meers". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 31 August 1928. p. 14.
  9. ↑ Garcia, Gabriel, the "Tennisbase", 2018
  10. ↑ Nieuwland, Tennis Archives
  11. ↑ Collins, B. (2010): History of Tennis. 2nd edition. New Chapter Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0, p. 414.
  12. ↑ Myers, A.W. (1903): Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad. Scribner's sons, New York, p. 77. (online)
  13. ↑ Nieuwland, Tennis Archives
  14. ↑ Nieuwland, Tennis Archives
  15. ↑ Nieuwland, Tennis Archives
  16. ↑ Nieuwland, Tennis Archives


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