Wimbledon Championships 1921

◄ Wimbledon Championships 1921 ►
Date:	June 20 - July 2, 1921
Edition:	41st  Wimbledon Championships
Place:	Worple Road, London
Covering:	race
Defending champion
Men's singles :	Bill Tilden
Ladies singles :	Suzanne Lenglen
Men's double :	Charles Garland Richard Norris Williams
Ladies doubles :	Suzanne Lenglen Elizabeth Ryan
Mixed :	Elizabeth Ryan Randolph Lycett
winner
Men's singles :	Bill Tilden
Ladies singles :	Suzanne Lenglen
Men's double :	Randolph Lycett Max Woosnam
Ladies doubles :	Suzanne Lenglen Elizabeth Ryan
Mixed :	Elizabeth Ryan Randolph Lycett
Grand Slams 1921
Australasian Championships French tennis championships Wimbledon Championships US National Championships

The 41st edition of the Wimbledon Championships took place for the last time in 1921 on the old grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Worple Road.

It was also the last time the Challenge Round tournament system was used. From the following year, the defending champion, like any other player, had to fight through the entire field of participants. As early as 1912, the multiple Wimbledon winner Anthony Wilding had spoken out in favor of abolishing the Challenge Round.

Men's singles

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In the last Challenge Round at Wimbledon, Bill Tilden and his challenger, the South African Brian Norton , met. Norton had previously defeated the Spaniard Manuel Alonso in the All-Comers final. Tilden lost the first two sets and started the third with a series of stop balls , whereupon the audience booed him. Norton went completely out of the concept and gave the following two sentences with 1: 6 and 0: 6, although the audience was on his side. In the decisive fifth set Norton had two match points with a score of 5: 4 and 40:15. At the first match point, after a supposedly too long stroke, Tilden was already on the way to the net for the handshake when the ball fell on the line and Norton then failed with a pass. Tilden fended off the second match point with an ace. Tilden won the set 7: 5, both match and tournament.

Ladies singles

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In the women's category, Suzanne Lenglen won her third title in a row. She clearly beat Elizabeth Ryan 6-2 and 6-0 in the Challenge Round .

Men's doubles

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The British Randolph Lycett and Max Woosnam were successful in the men's doubles .

Ladies doubles

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Suzanne Lenglen and Elizabeth Ryan won their third Wimbledon double title in a row.

Mixed

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Elizabeth Ryan and Randolph Lycett won the mixed game .

source

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barrett (2001), p. 3
2. ↑ Wilding, A: On the Court and Off. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York 1912, p. 134
3. ↑ Barrett (2001), p. 59