Wimbledon Championships 1913
◄ Wimbledon Championships 1913 ► | |
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Date: | June 24th - July 8th 1913 |
Edition: | 37th Wimbledon Championships |
Place: | Worple Road, London |
Covering: | race |
Defending champion | |
Men's singles : | Anthony Wilding |
Ladies singles : | Ethel Thomson Larcombe |
Men's double : |
Herbert Roper Barrett Charles Percy Dixon |
winner | |
Men's singles : | Anthony Wilding |
Ladies singles : | Ethel Thomson Larcombe |
Men's double : |
Herbert Roper Barrett Charles Percy Dixon |
Ladies doubles : |
Winifred McNair Dora Boothby |
Mixed : |
Hope Crisp Agnes Tuckey |
Grand Slams 1913 | |
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The 37th edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1913 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Worple Road.
This was preceded by the founding of the International Lawn Tennis Federation in March 1913 . Since the English association had reserved the right to hold the World Tennis Championships on grass, the tournament was known as the World's Championships on Grass until 1924 . On this occasion, the women's doubles and mixed competitions were officially awarded championship status. While in women's doubles, as in the other competitions, the Challenge Round mode was retained until 1922 , this was never introduced in mixed.
Men's singles
Anthony Wilding defeated the challenger Maurice McLoughlin in the Challenge Round to claim his fourth title. Over 7,000 spectators were present on the final day. The final had been brought forward from Saturday to Friday because it was feared that the crowd of spectators on a non-working day would not be able to cope with it.
Ladies singles
Dorothea Douglass-Chambers won the All-Comers competition over Winifred McNair . Last year's winner, Ethel Thomson Larcombe , did not defend her title.
Men's doubles
Herbert Roper Barrett and Charles Percy Dixon defended their title in the Challenge Round with a victory over the Germans Heinrich Kleinschroth and Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe .
Ladies doubles
Winifred McNair and Dora Boothby won the first official women's doubles title at the Wimbledon tournament .
Mixed
Hope Crisp and Agnes Tuckey won the first official mixed competition at the Wimbledon tournament .
Individual evidence
- ^ J. Barrett: Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. HarperCollins Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-00-711707-8 , p. 2.
- ↑ AW Myers: Captain Anthony Wilding. Hodder and Stoughton, London 1916, p. 162.