Algernon Kingscote

Algernon Kingscote (1914)

Algernon "Algie" Robert Fitzhardinge Kingscote (born December 3, 1888 in Bangalore , India , † December 21, 1964 in Woking , Surrey , England ) was a British tennis player .

He was the son of Colonel Howard Kingscote (1846-1917) and the writer Adeline Georgiana Isabella Wolff (1860-1908) and had two older siblings. The family moved to England from India in 1895 and bought the Bury Knowle House in Headington , Oxford ; Because of the debts accumulated by the mother, the entire household had to be auctioned off in 1899 and the house had to be vacated.

In 1919, Algernon Kingscote won the men's singles at the Australian Tennis Championships , now the Australian Open . He won the final against Eric Pockley 6: 4, 6: 0, 6: 3.

Also in 1919 he reached the finals of the International Lawn Tennis Challenge (forerunner of the Davis Cup) with the United Kingdom team , but it was beaten 4-1 by Australia . Overall, Kingscote played 17 times for the British team between 1919 and 1924 and won 9 of the 17 games.

Kingscote took part in the Wimbledon Championships several times between 1914 and 1927 , but could not win another Grand Slam title. In 1920 and 1924 he reached the quarterfinals in the men's singles and in 1920 together with James Cecil Parke the final in the men's doubles, which they lost to Richard Norris Williams and Chuck Garland 6: 4, 4: 6, 5: 7, 2: 6. It is also worth mentioning that on June 26, 1922, he won the first game in the newly inaugurated Center Court on Church Road, the opening game of the Wimbledon tournament in 1922, against Leslie Godfree 6: 1, 6: 3, 6: 0; However, he was eliminated prematurely against the eventual Wimbledon winner Gerald Patterson .

Kingscote also took part in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris without success .

Web links

• ATP profile Algernon Kingscote (English)
• ITF profile Algernon Kingscote (English)
• Davis Cup Statistics for Algernon Kingscote (English)