1883 Men's Tennis tour


The 1883 Men's tennis tour was the seventh annual tennis tour, consisting of 31 tournaments. The Wimbledon Championships was won by William Renshaw for the third consecutive year, while Richard Sears continued his dominance at the U.S. National Championships also winning a third successive title. Other big winners this season were Ernest Renshaw, picking up the Irish Championships, Herbert Wilberforce winning the Northern Lawn Tennis Championships in Manchester, and Herbert Lawford collecting his second and final title at the Princes Club Championships. The title leader this season was Charles Walder Grinstead winning 5 tournaments from 6 finals.

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, in some tournaments not all.
* Indicates challenger

Notes 2:Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only once that season

Key

January

No event

February

'No event''

March

'No event''

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

No Events

Tournament winners

Note: important tournaments in bold
NameTournamentsTotal
Charles Walder GrinsteadGrinstead,Brentwood,Brighton,Exmouth,Leicester,Lemington-Spa5
Donald Charles StewartCheltenham1
Ernest de Sylly H. BrowneBath, Limerick LC2
Ernest RenshawIrish Championships1
Eyre ChattertonLimerick1
Francis William MonementNorwich1
George M. ButterworthBath1
Herbert LawfordPrinces Club1
Herbert WilberforceTenby, Northern Championships2
Howard Augustus TaylorNewport RI1
Richard Field ConoverHastings-on-the Hudson, NY1
John Galbraith HornEdinburgh1
Joseph Sill ClarkHartford, Longwood2
Leopold MaxseRedhill1
Louis Australia WhyteMelbourne1
M. S. ConstableLondon1
Richard SearsUS National Championships1
Teddy WilliamsEastbourne1
Tom CampionDublin1
William RenshawWimbledon1

Rankings

Source: The Concise History of Tennis