Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
That first attempt was disappointing.. we voted the whole thing a fraud and put it away." About a month later, they tried again, as a way of passing time on a rainy day. This time, tennis seemed much more interesting, even though they were wearing rubber boots and raincoats.
The 1876 tournament was a neighborhood affair: "it was played on handicap on a round robin basis.
Rackets scoring was used. In a very rare transatlantic trip in those days, James Dwight entered the 1884 and 1885 Wimbledon tournaments, reaching the semi final in 1885.
Titles (5).
Sometimes called the "Founding Father of American Tennis", James Dwight won the first recorded tournament in the United States. (and probably in the world, before the first Wimbledon Championships) played in August 1876 on the property of his uncle, William Appleton, at Nahant, Master of Arts. After graduating from Harvard in 1874, he traveled in Europe, saw the new sport of lawn tennis being played, and brought the necessary equipment home. He never won the singles championship, but he reached the tournament final in 1883 losing to Richard Sears, with whom he did team to take five national doubles titles, from 1882 through 1884 and from 1886 through 1887.
