1888 Wimbledon Championships
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The 1888 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis
tournament played on Outdoor grass courts
which took place at the All England Club
from July 9 through 16.
Ernest Renshaw
defeated Herbert Lawford
, 6–3, 7–5, 6–0.
Lottie Dod
defeated Blanche Bingley Hillyard, 6–3, 6–3.
William Renshaw
/ Ernest Renshaw
defeated Herbert Wilberforce
/ Patrick Bowes-Lyon
, 2–6, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–3.
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
tournament played on Outdoor grass courts
Grass court
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court. Grass courts are made of rye grass in different compositions depending on the tournament...
which took place at the All England Club
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club , also known as the All-England Club, based at Aorangi Park, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass...
from July 9 through 16.
Gentlemen's Singles
Ernest RenshawErnest Renshaw
Ernest Renshaw was an English tennis player.Together with his twin brother William Renshaw, Ernest won the men's doubles at Wimbledon five times. He also won the singles championship at Wimbledon once, in 1888 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983...
defeated
Herbert LawfordHerbert Lawford
Herbert Lawford was a tennis player from Great Britain who won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1887, and was runner-up five times....
, 6–3, 7–5, 6–0.
Ladies' Singles
Lottie DodLottie Dod
Charlotte "Lottie" Dod was an English sportswoman best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen, in the summer of 1887...
defeated
Blanche Bingley Hillyard, 6–3, 6–3.Gentlemen's Doubles
William RenshawWilliam Renshaw
William "Willie" Charles Renshaw is one of the greatest British male tennis players of all time, and a candidate for the greatest tennis player of all time...
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Ernest RenshawErnest Renshaw
Ernest Renshaw was an English tennis player.Together with his twin brother William Renshaw, Ernest won the men's doubles at Wimbledon five times. He also won the singles championship at Wimbledon once, in 1888 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983...
defeated
Herbert WilberforceHerbert Wilberforce
Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce was a British male tennis player and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club . In 1887 he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon. He was the grandson of abolitionist William Wilberforce....
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Patrick Bowes-LyonPatrick Bowes-Lyon
Patrick Bowes-Lyon was a British male tennis player and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the mother of Elizabeth II....
, 2–6, 1–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–3.