Duration 23 May – 10 November Tournaments 32 (Amateur) Most tournament finals William Renshaw (4) | Edition 5th Most tournament titles William Renshaw (4) | |
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Categories important (5 )
national (2)
regional/state (10)
county (5)
local (10) | ||
The 1881 Men's tennis season was composed of the fifth annual pre-open era tour now incorporated 32 tournaments staged in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States. The 1881 Wimbledon Championships was won by William Renshaw. This year also saw the inaugural and important 1881 U.S. National Championships held at Newport Casino which Richard Sears had won. This was also the year that the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, which is the worlds first national tennis association, was founded. Renshaw then had won two other big tournaments of the year picking up the Irish Lawn Tennis Championships and Princes Club Championships, whilst Richard Taswell Richardson wins the prestigious Northern Championships.
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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.
Notes 2:Tournaments in italics were events that were staged only once that season
January to April
No events
December
No events
List of tournament winners
Note: important tournaments in bold
Rankings
Source: The Concise History of Tennis