The 1886 men's tennis season was composed of the eleventh annual pre-open era tennis circuit incorporating 135 tournaments. The season began in March in Auckland, New Zealand and ended in December in

Napier Napier may refer to: People * Napier (surname), including a list of people with that name * Napier baronets, five baronetcies and lists of the title holders Given name * Napier Shaw (1854–1945), British meteorologist * Napier Waller (1893–19 ...

, New Zealand.

Summary of tour

In the four most important tournaments of the year Herbert Lawford wins a third successive

Irish Lawn Tennis Championships The Irish Open and originally known as the Irish Lawn Tennis Championships and for sponsorship reasons also known as Carroll's Irish Open was a men's and women's tennis tournament held at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club in Dublin, Ireland. Bef ...

title in Dublin beating

Willoughby Hamilton Willoughby Hamilton (born as James Willoughby Hamilton; 9 December 1864 – 27 September 1943) was a co-world No. 1 Irish male tennis player, a footballer and international badminton player. Tennis career Hamilton played his first tournament ...

in four sets. William Renshaw wins a sixth consecutive

Wimbledon Championship The Wimbledon Championships, commonly known simply as Wimbledon, is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877 and is play ...

defeating Irish Champion Herbert Lawford in four sets. At the

Northern Championships Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ra ...

in Liverpool,

Harry Grove Harry Grove (7 May 1862 – 7 February 1896) was a British tennis player in the early years of tennis. Career Grove first entered the Wimbledon men's singles in 1881, when he lost in round one. Grove reached the semis in 1887, beating Herbert ...

beats defending American champion

James Dwight James Dwight (July 14, 1852, France – July 13, 1917) was an American tennis player who was known as the "Founding Father of American Tennis". Biography Dwight won the first recorded tournament in the U.S. (and probably in the world, before the ...

in three straight sets. In the United States

Dick Sears Richard Dudley Sears (October 26, 1861 – April 8, 1943) was an American tennis player, who won the US National Championships singles in its first seven years, from 1881 to 1887, and the doubles for six years from 1882 to 1887, after which he ...

wins a sixth consecutive US National Championship beating Robert Livingston Beeckman in four sets. In the United States new regional sectional tournaments the

New England Championships The New England Championships or New England Sectional Championships was a men's and women's open tennis tournament staged annually at various locations from 1886 until 1978. History On 7 June 1886, the first Championships of New England were inau ...

Northwestern Championships The Northwestern Championships, also known as the North Western Lawn Tennis Association Championships, was an early men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1886. It was first played at the St. Paul Club, Saint Paul, Minnesota, in ...

and

Southern Championships The Southern Championships also known as the Southern States Championships or Southern Sectional Championships was a men's and women's grass court then later clay tournament staged annually at various locations from 1885 until 1978. The tournament ...

are all staged for the first time this year. In New Zealand the

New Zealand Championships The New Zealand Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament founded in 1885 in Napier, New Zealand also known as the New Zealand National Lawn Tennis Championships or the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association Championships. The ...

are held for the first time at

Napier, New Zealand Napier ( ; mi, Ahuriri) is a city on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Hawke's Bay Region, Hawke's Bay region. It is a beachside city with a Napier Port, seaport, known for its sunny climate, esplanade lin ...

. Irish player

and American player Robert Livingston Beeckman were joint title leaders this season winning 5 titles each.

reached the most finals with 7 in total winning 3 of them.

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

''No events''

February

''No events''

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Rankings

Source: The Concise History of Tennis

Notes

References

Sources

* A. Wallis Myers, ed. (1903). Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad (1st ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 5358651. * Gillmeister, Heiner (1998). Tennis:Cultural History. London: A&C Black. . * Hall, Valentine Gill (1889). Lawn tennis in America. Biographical sketches of all the prominent players ... knotty points, and all the latest rules and directions governing handicaps, umpires, and rules for playing. New York, NY, USA: New York, D. W. Granbery & Co. * Lake, Robert J. (2014). A Social History of Tennis in Britain: Volume 5 of Routledge Research in Sports History. Routledge:. . * Mazak, Karoly (2017). The Concise History of Tennis. Independently published. . * Nauright, John; Parrish, Charles (2012). Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. . * Nieuwland, Alex (2009–2017). "Tournaments – Search for Tournament – Year – 1886". www.tennisarchives.com. Harlingen, Netherlands: Idzznew BV. * Paret, Jahial Parmly; Allen, J. P.; Alexander, Frederick B.; Hardy, Samuel [from old catalog (1918). Spalding's tennis annual . New York, NY, USA: New York, American sports publishing company.

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