The 1880 Men's tennis tour was the 4th amateur tennis tour held that year. It now incorporated 41 tournaments staged in
Australia
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,
Great Britain and Ireland and the
United States
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. The 1880 Wimbledon Championships was won by
John Hartley against
Herbert Lawford, in the Challenge Round.
The tour began in April
Cheltenham
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,
England
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and ended in October in
Boston, Massachusetts,
United States
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.
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.
* Indicates challenger
Notes 2:''Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only once that season''
Key
January to March
''No events''
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
''No events''
Notes
List of tournament winners
Note: Important tournaments in bold
*
Richard Sears—Boston—(1)
*
Francis Benson—Bournemouth—(1)
*
Ernest Renshaw
Ernest James Renshaw (3 January 1861 – 2 September 1899) was a British tennis player who was active in the late 19th century.
Together with his twin brother William Renshaw, Ernest won the men's doubles at Wimbledon five times. He also won th ...
—Cheltenham—(1)
*
William Renshaw
William Charles Renshaw (3 January 1861 – 12 August 1904) was a British tennis player active during the late 19th century, who was ranked world No. 1. He won twelve Major titles during his career. A right-hander, he was known for his pow ...
—Brighton, Irish Championships—(2)
* Dale Womersley—Eastbourne—(1)
*
James Patten McDougall
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* King James (disambiguat ...
—Edinburgh—(1)
* A.Jennings-Kempton-(1)
* Champion Branfill Russell—Leicester—(1)
* Edward Bennett—Limerick—(1)
*
Herbert Lawford—Princes Club—(1)
*
Richard Taswell Richardson—Northern Championships—(1)
* Joseph Rainsford-Naas—(1)
* Joseph Gardner-Stafford—(1)
*
Otway E. Woodhouse—Championship of America—(1)
* Ernest Maconchy—Torquay—(1)
*
Vere St. Leger Goold—Waterford—(1)
*
John Hartley—Wimbledon—(1)
* Frank Highett-Melbourne—(1)
Rankings
Source: The Concise History of Tennis
See also
*
1880 Tennis Season
*
1880 in sports
1880 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Athletics
*USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
American football
College championship
* College football national championship – Princeton Tigers and Yale Bulldogs (shared)
Even ...
Notes
References
Sources
* ''A Social History of Tennis in Britain: Lake, Robert J. (2014), Volume 5 of Routledge Research in Sports History. Routledge, UK, .''
* ''Ayre's Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, 1908 to 1938, A. Wallis Myers.''
* ''British Lawn Tennis and Squash Magazine, 1948 to 1967, British Lawn Tennis Ltd, UK.''
* ''Dunlop Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guide, G.P. Hughes, 1939 to 1958, Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd, UK''
* ''Fein, Paul (2003). Tennis confidential : today's greatest players, matches, and controversies. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books. ISBN 978-1574885262''.
* ''Lawn tennis and Badminton Magazine, 1906 to 1973, UK.''
* ''Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annuals and Compendia, Lowe, Sir F. Gordon, Eyre & Spottiswoode''
* ''Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annuals from 1885 to 1922, American Sports Pub. Co, USA.''
* ''Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice, Nauright John and Parrish Charles, (2012), ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Cal, USA, .''
* ''The Concise History of Tennis, Mazak Karoly, (2010), 6th Edition, 2015.''
* ''Tennis; A Cultural History, Gillmeister Heiner, (1997), Leicester University Press, Leicester, UK.''
* ''The Tennis Book, edited by Michael Bartlett and Bob Gillen, Arbor House, New York, 1981 ''
* ''The World of Tennis Annuals, Barrett John, 1970 to 2001.''
* ''Total Tennis:The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, by Bud Collins, Sport Classic Books, Toronto, Canada, ''
* ''Wright & Ditson Officially Adopted Lawn Tennis Guide's 1890 to 1920 Wright & Ditsons Publishers, Boston, Mass, USA.''
* ''http://www.tennisarchives.com/''
* ''https://thetennisbase.com/''
External links
* http://www.tennisarchives.com/
https://thetennisbase.com/1880 Season
{{Men's tennis seasons, state=collapsed
Pre Open era tennis seasons
1880 Men's Tennis season