Wimbledon Championships 1881
◄ Wimbledon Championships 1881 ► | |
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Date: | July 2-13, 1881 |
Edition: | 5th Wimbledon Championships |
Place: | Worple Road, London |
Covering: | race |
Defending champion | |
Men's singles : | John Hartley |
winner | |
Men's singles : | William Renshaw |
Grand Slams 1881 | |
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The fifth Wimbledon Championships took place in 1881 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club . William Renshaw defeated last year's winner John Hartley in the Challenge Round . He was to win the tournament six more times by 1889.
In addition to a powerful serve led William and his twin brother Ernest Renshaw to Smash (then Renshaw Smash called) as a new blow.
Men's singles
William Renshaw won the tournament, defeating defending champion John Hartley in the shortest Wimbledon final of all time in just 37 minutes 6-0, 6-1 and 6-1. Hartley was weakened by diarrhea.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gillmeister, H .: Cultural history of tennis. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-7705-2618-X , p. 247 f.
- ^ Myers, A .: Fifty Years of Wimbledon. The Field, London 1926, p. 17