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Tennis At The 1912 Summer Olympics
At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden eight tennis events were contested divided over two tournaments; an indoor covered courts tournament, played on wood, held from May 5 until May 12 and an outdoor hard court tournament, played on clay, held from June 28 until July 5. Tennis on covered courts was agreed initially for the 1912 Games, with competitions run for gentlemen's singles and doubles, ladies' singles and mixed doubles. Official Report (1913): p. 616. The outdoor tournament was confirmed once the Ă–stermalm Athletic Grounds were completed in late 1911, with the plans modified to have both indoor and outdoor tournaments. Official Report (1913): p. 617. Six countries sent players for the covered court competitions, with representatives from Sweden, Great Britain, Denmark, France, Australasia and Bohemia appearing. Included in this lineup was Australasia's only competitor, the New Zealander Anthony Wilding, who was also the reigning Wimbledon gentlemen's cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ă–stermalms IP
Östermalms IP is a sports venue, sports ground located in the Östermalm district of Stockholm, Sweden. Completed in 1906, the facility played host to several sports during the 1912 Summer Olympics. These sports included Equestrian at the 1912 Summer Olympics, equestrian, Fencing at the 1912 Summer Olympics, fencing (including the part for the Modern pentathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics, modern pentathlon), and Tennis at the 1912 Summer Olympics, tennis. It also hosted the exhibition for Baseball at the 1912 Summer Olympics, baseball at those same games. Current tenants are the bandy department of Djurgårdens IF Bandy, Djurgårdens IF, the youth program of the said club's Djurgårdens IF Fotboll, football department and several lower league teams. The athletic grounds also hosts a speed skating rink during winter. The ice hockey rink was completed for the 1926–1927 season. References1912 Summer Olympics official report. pp. 218–20. - accessed 8 July 2010. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australasia
Australasia is a region that comprises Australia, New Zealand and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically, physiogeographically, philologically, and ecologically, where the term covers several slightly different, but related regions. Derivation and definitions Charles de Brosses coined the term (as French ''Australasie'') in ''Histoire des navigations aux terres australes'' (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). In the late 19th century, the term Australasia was used in reference to the "Australasian colonies". In this sense it related specifically to the British colonies south of Asia: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, Victoria (i.e., the Australian colonies) and New Zealand. Australasia found continued geopolitical attention in the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Kreuzer
Oscar Kreuzer (; 14 June 1887 – 3 May 1968) was a male tennis and rugby player from Germany. Biography Kreuzer was born at Frankfurt am Main on 14 June 1887. He played at the 1908 Summer Olympics and at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden where he won a bronze medal in the men's singles tournament. In 1912, he also reached the final at the World Hard Court Championships at Paris which he lost to his compatriot Otto Froitzheim. At Wimbledon, he reached his best result in 1913 where he advanced to the semifinals before being stopped by Stanley Doust. Besides tennis, Kreuzer also excelled at rugby. He won the German championships with his club SC 1880 Frankfurt in 1910, and played several caps for Germany. At the end of July 1914, he and Otto Froitzheim played the semifinal of the International Lawn Tennis Challenge at Pittsburgh against Australasia. When World War I broke out, the president of the local tennis club kept this from Froitzheim and Kreuzer as he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Setterwall
Carl Gunnar Emanuel Setterwall (18 August 1881 – 26 February 1928) was a Swedish tennis player who won four Olympic medals. In 1908, he won a bronze in the men's indoor doubles, with Wollmar Boström. Four years later, he won three more medals. In the mixed doubles (with Sigrid Fick) and indoor doubles (with Carl Kempe Johan Carl Kempe (8 December 1884 – 8 July 1967) was leader of the Swedish pulp and paper industry Mo och Domsjö AB (now Holmen Group) and involved in several other companies in the large economic sphere of the Kempe family. He was also a si ...) tournament he reached the final but lost both times. Sigrid Fick was also his partner in the mixed indoor event and together they won a bronze medal. Setterwall's father, also named Carl, was a multimillionaire controlling much of the iron works during the development of railways in Scandinavia. His son followed in his footsteps, eventually taking over the family firm. References External links * * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Fick
Sigrid Fick (nĂ©e ''Frenckell''; 28 March 1887 – 4 June 1979) was a Finnish-born tennis player who moved to Sweden in 1910. She competed at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won two mixed doubles medals in 1912, both with Gunnar Setterwall Carl Gunnar Emanuel Setterwall (18 August 1881 – 26 February 1928) was a Swedish tennis player who won four Olympic medals. In 1908, he won a bronze in the men's indoor doubles, with Wollmar Boström. Four years later, he won three more me .... During her career Fick won 56 Swedish titles.Sigrid Fick Swedish Olympic Committee References External links * * 1887 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Koring
Dorothea (also spelled Dorothée, Dorotea or other variants) is a female given name from Greek language, Greek (Dōrothéa) meaning "God's Gift". It may refer to: People * Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war crimes * Dorothea Brooking (1916–1999), British children's television producer and director * Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social activist * Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878–1960), English tennis player * Dorothea Dunckel (1799–1878), Swedish playwright * Dorothea Erxleben (1715–1762), first woman doctor in Germany * Dorothea Fairbridge (1860–1931), South African novelist * Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915), Scottish novelist * Dorothea Hoffman (d. 1710), Swedish hat maker * Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), Irish actress and mistress of the future King William IV of the United Kingdom * Dorothea Kalpakidou (born 1983), Greek discus thrower * Dorothea Krag (1675–1754), Danish postmaster * Dorothea Lange (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Zborzil
Arthur Zborzil (15 July 1885 – 15 October 1937) was a male tennis player from Austria. At the 1912 Summer Olympics, 1912 Stockholm Olympics he teamed up with Felix Pipes to win a silver medal in the men's doubles event. Zborzil also competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics, but he lost his first match in the singles event as well as his first match with Felix Pipes in the doubles event. References 1885 births 1937 deaths Austrian male tennis players Olympic tennis players of Austria Olympic silver medalists for Austria Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in tennis Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{Austria-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Pipes
Fritz Felix Pipes (also "Piepes"; 15 April 1887 – 20 January 1983) was an Austrian tennis player who was born in Prague. He was Jewish, and was a medical doctor. At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics he teamed up with Arthur Zborzil to win a silver medal for Austria in the men's doubles event. He also competed for Austria in singles in 1912, and in both singles and doubles (with Zborzil) at the 1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori .... He was runner-up in the Austrian International Championship in both 1909 and 1913. He twice played at the World Hard Court Championships, losing in round one of singles in 1912 and in the quarterfinals of mixed doubles in 1912, and in round two in 1913. See also * List of select Jewish tennis players References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Gore (tennis)
Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore (2 January 1868 – 1 December 1928) was a British tennis player. He is best known for winning three singles titles at the Wimbledon Championship and was runner-up a record 5 times (shared with Herbert Lawford). He also won gold medals at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England, winning the Men's Indoor Singles and the Men's Indoor Doubles (with Herbert Barrett). He also competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Gore's Wimbledon win in 1909, at age 41, makes him the oldest player to date to hold the Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles title. Career He played his first tournament at London Athletic Club in 1887, and his first title came at a grass court tournament in Stevenage in August 1888. Gore won the singles title at the Scottish Championships in 1892 and successfully defended the title in the Challenge Round in 1893. In 1894 he won the North London Championships on grass, an event at that tournament that he won five t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 Wimbledon Championships
The 1912 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament ran from 24 June until 8 July.2010 Wimbledon Compendium, by Alan Little (The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London) It was the 36th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1912. Champions Men's singles Anthony Wilding defeated Arthur Gore 6–4, 6–4, 4–6, 6–4 Women's singles Ethel Larcombe defeated Charlotte Sterry 6–3, 6–1 Men's doubles Herbert Roper Barrett / Charles Dixon defeated Max Decugis / André Gobert 3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5 References External links Official Wimbledon Championships website {{1912 in tennis Wimbledon Championships Wimbledon Championships Wimbledon Championships Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Lowe (tennis)
Arthur Holden Lowe (29 January 1886 – 22 October 1958) was an English tennis player. Tennis career Lowe competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in both singles and doubles. He was ranked World No. 7 in 1914 by A. Wallis Myers of ''The Daily Telegraph''. Lowe won three titles at the Queen's Club, the pre- Wimbledon tournament, winning his first two back-to-back in 1913–14, and his third over 10 years later in 1925. In 1919 Lowe was runner-up in the Australian Open Men's Doubles with his partner James Anderson. In the singles, Lowe beat Pat O'Hara Wood in torrid heat, with one of the best displays of groundstrokes seen in Melbourne up to that point in time. He lost in the semi finals to Eric Pockley. His brother Gordon Lowe was also a tennis player, and another brother John played first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles Champions
Wimbledon Championships is an annual British tennis tournament created in 1877 and played on outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) in the Wimbledon suburb of London, United Kingdom. The Gentlemen's Singles was the first event contested in 1877. History The Wimbledon Championships are played in the first two weeks of July (as of July 2017, prior to this it was last week in June and 1st week in July) and has been chronologically the third of the four Grand Slam tournaments of the tennis season since 1987. The event was not held from 1915 to 1918 because of World War I and again from 1940 to 1945 because of World War II. It was also cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gentlemen's Singles' rules have undergone several changes since the first edition. From 1878 until 1921, the event started with a knockout phase, the All Comers' Singles, whose winner then faced the defending champion in a challenge round. The All Comers' winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
