The Essex Championships also known as the Essex County Lawn Tennis Championships or Essex Grass Court Championships was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament established in 1881 at Brentwood, Essex . In 1946 it was moved to the Frinton Lawn Tennis Club, Frinton-on-Sea , Essex , Great Britain until 1983 when it was discontinued.
9-461: Meers may refer to: People [ edit ] Ernest George Meers (1848–1928), English tennis player Nelson Meers (born 1938), Australian lawyer and Lord Mayor of Sydney Nick Meers (born 1955), English photographer William Meers (1844–1902), English cricketer Kenneth Meers (1960–1992), American murder victim Other uses [ edit ] Meers, Oklahoma , U.S. Meers Brook ,
18-534: A stream in Sheffield, England Meers Fault , a fault in Oklahoma, U.S. Fuddy Meers , an American play by David Lindsay-Abaire See also [ edit ] Meer (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Meers . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
27-810: The British Covered Court Championships in 1892. His other singles successes included winning the British Covered Court Championships indoors on hard wood courts in 1891. He won the Kent Championships on grass three times (1888, 1890–91). In addition he also won three titles at the Essex Championships (1887–88, 1890) and the Chingford Open (1888), the Middlesex Championships onetime in 1891. He played his last tournament at
36-604: The North of England Championships in Scarborough in 1884 going out in the round of 16. He reached his first final at Sittingbourne in 1885 losing to Ernest Wool Lewis . Meers played at the Wimbledon Championships between 1890 and 1895, reaching the quarterfinals of the all-comers competition in 1894 and the semifinals in 1895. He reached the semifinals of the U.S. National Championships in 1889 and won
45-523: The British Covered Court Championships in 1896 going out in the quarter-finals. This biographical article relating to British tennis is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Essex Championships The Essex Championships were established in 1881 at Brentwood Essex , England and continued to be staged there until 1884. In 1887 the event was then staged Leyton. It changed location again in 1888 and
54-436: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meers&oldid=1247787507 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ernest George Meers Ernest George Meers (1849 – 20 August 1928)
63-503: The tournament was abolished after eighty five editions in 1983. The event featured both men's and women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles competitions. Notes: 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. Included: (Incomplete roll) The tournament
72-713: Was an English tennis player, organist and gum merchant. Meers was born in Kingsnorth , near Ashford , Kent . He earned a Bachelor of Music from Queen's College, Oxford and was later chairman and managing director of Watts Ltd, gummakers. He married Eliza Rose, daughter of Captain Henry Douglas-Hart of the Madras Army , who was assassinated while serving in India in 1858. They had three sons and two daughters who survived him. His played first tournament at
81-538: Was held in Chingford till 1889. It switched back to Leyton, Essex for one year only in 1890. From 1891 it moved to the Cambridge Grounds, Colchester where it remained until 1918. Staged briefly at Frinton-on-Sea in 1919 it then moved to Southend-on-Sea until 1922. In 1923 the championships were held at Westcliff-on-Sea till 1946. The championships returned to Frinton-on-Sea and stayed there till
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