Herbert Lawford

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Lawford, standing, right (1884)

Herbert Fortescue Lawford (born May 15, 1851 in London , † April 20, 1925 in Dess , Scotland ) was a British tennis player and 1887 winner of the Wimbledon Championships .

Life

Lawford was born in Bayswater, London, in 1851 . He attended the Repton School and then studied at the University of Edinburgh .

Lawford participated in the second edition of the Wimbledon Championships in 1878 at the age of 27 . Between 1880 and 1888 he was there six times in the finals, but could only win the title in 1887 when his rival William Renshaw was injured. He also won the first edition of the British Indoor Championships in 1885 and the Irish Championships from 1884 to 1886. Most recently, in 1889, he took part in the Wimbledon tournament.

In addition to the ten years younger twin brothers William and Ernest Renshaw , Lawford is considered the strongest player of the 1880s. While the Renshaws' strengths lay in their volleys and smashes on the net, Lawford was an excellent baseline player. He was one of the first players to use topspin in tennis .

Lawford died in Scotland in 1925. In 2006 he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame .

title

singles

No. year competition Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1880 Prince's Club Tournament United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edgar Lubbock 5: 7, 5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 0, 8: 6
2. 1882 London Athletic Club United KingdomUnited Kingdom Otway Woodhouse 6: 1, 4: 6, 6: 2, 6: 3
3. 1883 London Athletic Club United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edward Lake Williams 6: 2, 6: 1, 6: 0
4th 1883 Prince's Club Tournament United KingdomUnited Kingdom William C. Taylor 6: 2, 6: 0, 6: 1
5. 1884 Irish championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ernest Renshaw 6: 1, 6: 4, 6: 2
6th 1884 London Athletic Club United KingdomUnited Kingdom Frederick Bowlby 6: 3, 6: 1, 3: 6, 6: 2
7th 1885 British Covered Court Championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Charles Hoadley Ross 7: 5, 6: 3, 6: 3
8th. 1885 Irish championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ernest Renshaw 4: 6, 6: 2, 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4
9. 1886 Irish championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Willoughby James Hamilton 5: 7, 6: 4, 6: 4, 7: 5
10. 1887 Wimbledon Championships United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ernest Renshaw 1: 6, 6: 3, 3-6, 6: 4, 6: 4

Double

No. year competition partner Final opponent Bottom line
1. 1879 All England Championships (Oxford) United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lestocq Robert Erskine United KingdomUnited Kingdom George Ernest Tabor F. Durant
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 5, 6: 2, 3: 6, 5: 6, 7: 5

literature

  • Collins, B .: History of Tennis. 2nd Edition. New Chapter Press, New York 2010. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 , p. 601

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Gillmeister, H .: Cultural history of tennis. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-7705-2618-X , pp. 246, 248
  2. ^ Myers, AW: Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad. Scribner's Sons , New York 1903, p. 4 ( online )