Wimbledon Championships 1912

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◄ Wimbledon Championships 1912 ►
Date: June 24 - July 8, 1912
Edition: 36th  Wimbledon Championships
Place: Worple Road, London
Covering: race
Defending champion
Men's singles : New ZealandNew Zealand Anthony Wilding
Ladies singles : United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Dorothea Douglass-Chambers
Men's double : Third French RepublicThird French Republic André Gobert Max Décugis
Third French RepublicThird French Republic 
winner
Men's singles : New ZealandNew Zealand Anthony Wilding
Ladies singles : United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Ethel Thomson Larcombe
Men's double : United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Herbert Roper Barrett Charles Percy Dixon
United Kingdom 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
Grand Slams 1912

The 36th edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1912 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Worple Road. Due to bad weather, the finals had to be postponed to Monday.

Men's singles

Anthony Wilding won his third title by defeating Arthur Gore in the Challenge Round .

Ladies singles

In the absence of last year's winner Dorothea Douglass-Chambers , Ethel Thomson Larcombe won .

Men's doubles

Herbert Roper Barrett and Charles Percy Dixon prevailed in the Challenge Round against last year's winners André Gobert and Max Décugis .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Barrett: Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. HarperCollins Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-00-711707-8 , p. 2.