Wimbledon Championships 1884

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◄ Wimbledon Championships 1884 ►
Date: July 5-19, 1884
Edition: 8.  Wimbledon Championships
Place: Worple Road, London
Covering: race
Defending champion
Men's singles : United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland William Renshaw
winner
Men's singles : United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland William Renshaw
Ladies singles : United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Maud Watson
Men's double : United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland William Renshaw Ernest Renshaw
United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
Grand Slams 1884

The eighth Wimbledon Championships took place in 1884 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Worple Road.

For the first time, a men's doubles tournament was held in addition to the men's singles. English championships in men's doubles had already been held at the University of Oxford since 1879 , but the interest of the players and spectators there had steadily decreased, so that those responsible there gave the tournament to Wimbledon. In addition, a women's individual competition was introduced, which was held after the men's individual tournament was over. The winner Maud Watson received a silver basket of flowers worth 20 guineas , her sister Lilian , who placed second, a silver hand mirror and a silver hairbrush. Initial efforts to initiate a women's competition had been rejected in 1879. The holding was criticized several times; Among other things, it was requested that the women’s competition be held in a remote area of ​​the site. English championships in women's doubles took place in Buxton from 1885 and were only moved to Wimbledon in 1913.

After the tournament, the rules were adjusted: The ball could now be played past the outside of the net post.

Men's singles

The All-Comers final was played by Herbert Lawford and Charles Walder Grinstead , which Lawford won in four sets. In the Challenge Round , the defending champion William Renshaw , although handicapped by a tennis elbow, outclassed the challenger Lawford in three sets, winning the first set 6-0 in eleven minutes.

With the Americans Richard Sears , James Dwight and Arthur Rives , players from outside the United Kingdom competed in the tournament for the first time .

Ladies singles

Ladies' program, 1884

Thirteen players took part in the first women's Wimbledon tournament. 19-year-old Maud Watson won the final against her sister Lilian , who was seven years older than her, in three sets with 6: 8, 6: 3 and 6: 3. Maud Watson hadn't lost a game since she first entered a tournament in 1881.

Men's doubles

The first men's doubles tournament at Wimbledon was won by the Renshaw brothers against Ernest Wool Lewis and Edward Lake Williams 6: 3, 6: 1, 1: 6 and 6: 4.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heathcote, J. et al .: Tennis. Lawn tennis. Racquets. Fives. Longmans, Green & Co., London 1901, pp. 437 f. ( online )
  2. ^ A b Heathcote (1901), p. 166
  3. ↑ a b Gillmeister, H .: cultural history of tennis. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-7705-2618-X , p. 257
  4. ↑ a b Gillmeister (1990), p. 251 f.
  5. ^ Myers, AW: The Complete Lawn Tennis Player. George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia 1908, pp. 9 f. ( online )
  6. ^ Heathcote (1901), p. 168