Wimbledon Championships 1919

◄ Wimbledon Championships 1919 ►
Date:	June 23 - July 7, 1919
Edition:	39th  Wimbledon Championships
Place:	Worple Road, London
Covering:	race
Defending champion
Men's singles :	Norman Brookes
Ladies singles :	Dorothea Douglass-Chambers
Men's double :	Norman Brookes Anthony Wilding
Ladies doubles :	Elizabeth Ryan Agnes Morton
Mixed :	Ethel Thomson Larcombe James Cecil Parke
winner
Men's singles :	Gerald Patterson
Ladies singles :	Suzanne Lenglen
Men's double :	Pat O'Hara Wood Ronald Thomas
Ladies doubles :	Suzanne Lenglen Elizabeth Ryan
Mixed :	Elizabeth Ryan Randolph Lycett
Grand Slams 1919
Australasian Championships French tennis championships Wimbledon Championships US National Championships

The 39th edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place in 1919 on the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Worple Road.

About 8,000 spectators were present on the final day.

Men's singles

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The Australian Gerald Patterson beat his compatriot Norman Brookes in the Challenge Round . Patterson had previously prevailed in the All-Comers final against Algernon Kingscote .

Ladies singles

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Suzanne Lenglen took part in the tournament for the first time . An expectant reputation preceded her, as she had already won the hard court world championships in Paris in 1914 at the age of 15 , and did not have to give up a set when she won tournaments on the Côte d'Azur in spring . Although it was Lenglen's first tournament on grass, she penetrated the Challenge Round straight away and faced the defending champion and seven-time Wimbledon winner Dorothea Douglass there . The game was watched by King George V and Queen Mary .

After Lenglen was able to win the long first set 10: 8 despite the set point for Douglass, she was quickly down 1: 4 in the second. To replenish her energy reserves, her father and trainer gave her sugar cubes soaked in brandy , but Lenglen finally had to give the sentence 4: 6. In the decisive third, Lenglen took a quick 4-1 lead before Douglass found his way back into the match, won four games in a row and finally had two match points at 6: 5 and 40:15. At the first match point, Lenglen attacked the net, but was praised by Douglass, and was ultimately only able to hit the ball with the frame, so that the ball fell just behind the net. Lenglen fended off the second match point with a longline backhand that just touched the line. Lenglen won the game, and finally the set and the title 9: 7. It was her first of six individual titles by 1925.

Men's doubles

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The Australians Pat O'Hara Wood and Ronald Thomas won the men's doubles . In the final they prevailed against Rodney Heath and Randolph Lycett . Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding won the men's doubles tournament.

Ladies doubles

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In addition to her victory in the individual, Suzanne Lenglen also won the double title. At the side of Elizabeth Ryan , she beat Dorothea Douglass-Chambers and Ethel Thomson Larcombe in the final .

Mixed

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In mixed, Elizabeth Ryan and Randolph Lycett won the title.

source

• J. Barrett: Wimbledon: The Official History of the Championships. HarperCollins Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-00-711707-8 .
• L. Tingay: One Hundred Years of Wimbledon. Guinness World Records Ltd, London 1977, ISBN 0-900424-71-0 , p. 64.

Individual evidence

1. ^ L. Tingay: One Hundred Years of Wimbledon. Guinness World Records Ltd, London 1977.
2. ^ L. Tingay: One Hundred Years of Wimbledon. Guinness World Records Ltd, London 1977.