H. Briggs

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H. Briggs (* 19th century ; † unknown; according to other sources J. Briggs ) was a British tennis player .

success

Briggs lived at the time of the first French tennis championship in Paris and belonged to the Club Stade Français . Because of this, he was able to take part in the then still national French tennis championships (now the French Open ) in Paris , which were held for the first time in 1891 . The occasion was a bet. The tournament then had five participants, all of them amateurs, since professionals were not allowed in the French championships until 1934. All the games in the tournament took place on a single day. Briggs won the final on a grass pitch, in front of a handful of spectators, in two sets (6: 3, 6: 3) against the Frenchman P. Baigneres . Although nothing more is known about Briggs' life, Briggs went down in the annals as the winner of the first tennis championships in France.

Gianni Clerici mentions in his book 500 Years of Tennis that Briggs was one of the great role models of the future French master Max Décugis .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ French Open In: Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ↑ Heiner Gillmeister: Tennis, a cultural history. Leicester University Press, London 1998, ISBN 0-7185-0195-0 , p. 225 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ First French Open ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . HistoryofTennis.net, accessed April 27, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftennis.net
  4. ↑ Meet the last Brit to win a grand slam  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.metro.co.uk  metro.co.uk, September 8, 2008, accessed April 27, 2009
  5. ↑ Tennis: Great Brits , skysports.com of September 9, 2008, accessed April 27, 2009
  6. ↑ The early years of the Men's French Championship ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bmarcore.club.fr archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 27, 2009
  7. ^ French Open History , accessed April 27, 2009 ( Memento November 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ French Open - Men's Singles at grandslamhistory.com, accessed December 25, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Briggs, H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briggs, J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 19th century or 20th century