1879 men's tennis season

The 1879 men's tennis season incorporated 26 tournaments. The 1879 Wimbledon Championships was won by John Hartley. Defending champion Patrick Francis Hadow could not participate in the Challenge Round. This year saw the inaugural Irish Championships that in its early stages of development was considered as important as the Wimbledon Championships. The event was won by Vere St. Leger Goold who defeated Charles David Barry in the final by 8–6, 8–6. Important this year was the staging of six hard court tournaments some of which included the Dublin University Championships the East Gloucestershire Championships held in Cheltenham Great Britain, Nice Tennis Tournament in Nice, France and the first tournament to be held outside of Europe in Australia with the Victorian Championships.

The season started in Nice, France in May and ended in Melbourne, Australia in December.

Calendar

Notes 1: Challenge Round: the final round of a tournament, in which the winner of a single-elimination phase faces the previous year's champion, who plays only that one match. The challenge round was used in the early history of tennis (from 1877 through 1921), in some tournaments not all.<div style="text-align: center;">* Indicates challenger</div> Notes 2:Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only once that season

Key

January to April

No events

February

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

No events

December

Event staged date unknown

List of tournament winners

Note: Important tournaments in bold

• Vere St. Leger Goold—Irish Championships, Dublin (Earlsfort), Waterford—(3)
• Henry James Daley—Dublin—(1)
• A. F. Robinson—Melbourne—(1)
• Algernon Ambrose Michael Aylmer—Naas (1st)—(1)
• Captain Short—Belfast—(1)
• Dale Womersley—Knighton—(1)
• Edgar Lubbock—Hendon—(1)
• Edmond Bennet Brackenbury—Bournemouth(Oct)—(1)
• F.L. Cope—Armagh—(1)
• George Edward Devere Kennedy—Naas (2nd)—(1)
• Gwyn Saunders Davies—Newcastle Emlyn—(1)
• Henry W. J. Gardner—Stafford—(1)
• Henry Lyle Mulholland—Nice—(1)
• John Hartley—Wimbledon Championships—(1)
• Joseph F. J. H. Considine—Limerick—(1)
• Leslie Balfour-Melville—St Andrews—(1)
• Montague Hankey—Dorchester—(1)
• Percy Lucas—Great Yarmouth—(1)
• William Renshaw—Cheltenham—(1)
• Sir Hubert James Medlycott—Bournemouth (May)—(1)
• W.G. Eyre—Lisbeg—(1)

See also

• 1879 in sports

References

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External links

• http://www.tennisarchives.com/
• https://thetennisbase.com/1879 Season