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	==Tennis career==		==Tennis career==
	Algernon Kingscote learned playing tennis on the courts of the [[Château-d'Œx]] Club in Switzerland,<ref name="headington" /> where he won numerous championships.<ref name="aucklandstar" /> In his early years he trained with American teenager player [[R. Norris Williams]].<ref name="Tilden6">Tilden (1921), p. 189</ref> He was crowned Swiss champion in 1908<ref name="headington" /> and champion of Bengal in 1913.<ref name="aucklandstar" /> He held the [[Kent Championships]] title for four consecutive years between 1919–1922 and in total won the title six times.<ref name="beckenham">{{cite web\|url=http://www.beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk/photos/Beck_M_Roll.pdf \|date=17 February 2011 \|title=Kent All-Comers' Championships ~~\|format=PDF~~ \|publisher=Beckenham Tennis Club \|work=beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk \|author=J Buddell \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|location=Beckenham, United Kingdom \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722091316/http://www.beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk/photos/Beck_M_Roll.pdf \|archive-date=22 July 2012 }}</ref> At Wimbledon 1919, Kingscote beat [[William Laurentz]], [[Max Decugis]] and [[Pat O'Hara Wood]] before losing in the all comers final to [[Gerald Patterson]].<ref name="gsta">{{cite web\|title=Wimbledon 1919\|url=http://www.tennis.co.nf/WIMBLEDON%201919.htm\|website=www.tennis.co.nf}}</ref> He won the singles title at the [[1919 Australasian Championships (tennis)\|1919 Australasian Championships]], along with the first [[Anthony Wilding]] Memorial Medal, beating [[Eric Pockley]] of [[New South Wales]] in the final in straight sets.<ref name="Argus" /><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65025158 \|title=TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. \|newspaper=[[The Register (Adelaide)\|The Register]] \|location=Adelaide \|date=29 January 1920 \|page=7 \|publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In the [[1920 Wimbledon Championships]] he reached the doubles final alongside [[James Cecil Parke]] but eventually lost to the team of [[Chuck Garland\|Garland]]–[[Richard Norris Williams\|Williams]].<ref name="barrier">{{cite journal \|date=5 July 1920 \|title=Sporting – tennis \|author=United Service Message \|journal=[[The Barrier Miner]] \|location=Broken Hill, Australia \|page=1 \|volume=33 \|issue=9928 \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45504890}}</ref> In 1921 Kingscote was a runner-up at the [[Monte-Carlo Masters\|Monte-Carlo Championships]] losing to fellow countryman [[Gordon Lowe]] in four sets.<ref name="sports.fr">{{cite web \|url=http://www.sports.fr/tennis/palmares/palmares-monte-carlo.html \|archive-date=18 April 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418171815/http://www.sports.fr/tennis/palmares/palmares-monte-carlo.html \|date=17 February 2011 \|title=Palmarès Monte-Carlo \|publisher=Pascal Laroche, Groupe Lagardère \|work=sports.fr \|editor=Axel Capron \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|location=Levallois-Perret, France}}</ref> He represented Great Britain in the [[Davis Cup]] seven times between 1919 and 1924 compiling a 9–8 win-loss record. In the [[1922 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles\|1922 Wimbledon Championships]] first round against [[Leslie Godfree]] they established the routine of saluting the Royal Box by bowing in front of it, a tradition that was in effect to 2003.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite journal \|date=30 April 2003 \|title=Wimbledon abandons the Royal Box curtsey \|author=John Parsons \|author2=Caroline Davies \|journal=[[The Daily Telegraph]] \|location=London \|editor=Martin Newland \|issn=0307-1235 \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1428705/Wimbledon-abandons-the-Royal-Box-curtsey.html}}</ref> He won the [[Queen's Club Championships]] in 1924 beating Gordon Lowe in four sets in the final.<ref name="Sydneymh">{{cite journal \|date=24 June 1924 \|title=Lawn tennis – London Championships \|journal=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] \|page=9 \|issue=26,979 \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16154507}}</ref>		Algernon Kingscote learned playing tennis on the courts of the [[Château-d'Œx]] Club in Switzerland,<ref name="headington" /> where he won numerous championships.<ref name="aucklandstar" /> In his early years he trained with American teenager player [[R. Norris Williams]].<ref name="Tilden6">Tilden (1921), p. 189</ref> He was crowned Swiss champion in 1908<ref name="headington" /> and champion of Bengal in 1913.<ref name="aucklandstar" /> He held the [[Kent Championships]] title for four consecutive years between 1919–1922 and in total won the title six times.<ref name="beckenham">{{cite web\|url=http://www.beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk/photos/Beck_M_Roll.pdf \|date=17 February 2011 \|title=Kent All-Comers' Championships \|publisher=Beckenham Tennis Club \|work=beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk \|author=J Buddell \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|location=Beckenham, United Kingdom \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722091316/http://www.beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk/photos/Beck_M_Roll.pdf \|archive-date=22 July 2012 }}</ref> At Wimbledon 1919, Kingscote beat [[William Laurentz]], [[Max Decugis]] and [[Pat O'Hara Wood]] before losing in the all comers final to [[Gerald Patterson]].<ref name="gsta">{{cite web\|title=Wimbledon 1919\|url=http://www.tennis.co.nf/WIMBLEDON%201919.htm\|website=www.tennis.co.nf}}</ref> He won the singles title at the [[1919 Australasian Championships (tennis)\|1919 Australasian Championships]], along with the first [[Anthony Wilding]] Memorial Medal, beating [[Eric Pockley]] of [[New South Wales]] in the final in straight sets.<ref name="Argus" /><ref>{{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65025158 \|title=TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. \|newspaper=[[The Register (Adelaide)\|The Register]] \|location=Adelaide \|date=29 January 1920 \|page=7 \|publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In the [[1920 Wimbledon Championships]] he reached the doubles final alongside [[James Cecil Parke]] but eventually lost to the team of [[Chuck Garland\|Garland]]–[[Richard Norris Williams\|Williams]].<ref name="barrier">{{cite journal \|date=5 July 1920 \|title=Sporting – tennis \|author=United Service Message \|journal=[[The Barrier Miner]] \|location=Broken Hill, Australia \|page=1 \|volume=33 \|issue=9928 \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45504890}}</ref> In 1921 Kingscote was a runner-up at the [[Monte-Carlo Masters\|Monte-Carlo Championships]] losing to fellow countryman [[Gordon Lowe]] in four sets.<ref name="sports.fr">{{cite web \|url=http://www.sports.fr/tennis/palmares/palmares-monte-carlo.html \|archive-date=18 April 2009 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418171815/http://www.sports.fr/tennis/palmares/palmares-monte-carlo.html \|date=17 February 2011 \|title=Palmarès Monte-Carlo \|publisher=Pascal Laroche, Groupe Lagardère \|work=sports.fr \|editor=Axel Capron \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|location=Levallois-Perret, France}}</ref> He represented Great Britain in the [[Davis Cup]] seven times between 1919 and 1924 compiling a 9–8 win-loss record. In the [[1922 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles\|1922 Wimbledon Championships]] first round against [[Leslie Godfree]] they established the routine of saluting the Royal Box by bowing in front of it, a tradition that was in effect to 2003.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite journal \|date=30 April 2003 \|title=Wimbledon abandons the Royal Box curtsey \|author=John Parsons \|author2=Caroline Davies \|journal=[[The Daily Telegraph]] \|location=London \|editor=Martin Newland \|issn=0307-1235 \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1428705/Wimbledon-abandons-the-Royal-Box-curtsey.html}}</ref> He won the [[Queen's Club Championships]] in 1924 beating Gordon Lowe in four sets in the final.<ref name="Sydneymh">{{cite journal \|date=24 June 1924 \|title=Lawn tennis – London Championships \|journal=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] \|page=9 \|issue=26,979 \|access-date=23 September 2012 \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16154507}}</ref>

	===Playing style===		===Playing style===

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{{Short description|British tennis player}}
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{{Infobox tennis biography
| name = Algernon Kingscote
| fullname = Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge Kingscote
| image = Algernon Kingscote 1914.jpg
| caption = Kingscote in 1914
| country = {{flagu|United Kingdom}}
| birth_date = 3 December 1888
| birth_place = [[Bangalore]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1964|12|21|1888|12|3}}
| death_place = [[Woking, Surrey]], Great Britain
| height =
| plays = Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
| tennishofyear =
| tennishofid =
| highestsinglesranking = No. 3 (1920<small>, [[A. Wallis Myers]]</small>)<ref name="USLTAEncyclopedia">United States Lawn Tennis Association (1972). ''Official Encyclopedia of Tennis'' (First Edition), p. 422.</ref>
| AustralianOpenresult = '''W''' ([[1919 Australasian Championships – Singles|1919]])
| FrenchOpenseniorresult = 1R ([[1930 French Championships – Seniors Over 40 Singles|1930]])
| Wimbledonresult = F ([[1919 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles|1919]])
| USOpenresult =
| Othertournaments = yes
| WHCCresult = QF ([[World Hard Court Championships|1914]])
| Olympicsresult = 4R ([[Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's singles|1924]])
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| WHCCDoublesresult = F ([[World Hard Court Championships|1914]])
| OlympicsDoublesresult = 1R ([[Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles|1924]])
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'''Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge "Algy" Kingscote''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|MC}} (3 December 1888 – 21 December 1964) was a British [[tennis]] player, who won the Men's Singles event at the [[Australian Open|Australasian Championships]] in [[1919 Australasian Championships – Singles|1919]].<ref name="headington" />

Kingscote also competed in the [[1924 Summer Olympics]] in Paris.<ref>[http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=4773 Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge Kingscote], [[British Olympic Association]].</ref> He was born in [[Bangalore]], India, in 1888.<ref name="headington" />

==Tennis career==
Algernon Kingscote learned playing tennis on the courts of the [[Château-d'Œx]] Club in Switzerland,<ref name="headington" /> where he won numerous championships.<ref name="aucklandstar" /> In his early years he trained with American teenager player [[R. Norris Williams]].<ref name="Tilden6">Tilden (1921), p. 189</ref> He was crowned Swiss champion in 1908<ref name="headington" /> and champion of Bengal in 1913.<ref name="aucklandstar" /> He held the [[Kent Championships]] title for four consecutive years between 1919–1922 and in total won the title six times.<ref name="beckenham">{{cite web|url=http://www.beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk/photos/Beck_M_Roll.pdf |date=17 February 2011 |title=Kent All-Comers' Championships |format=PDF |publisher=Beckenham Tennis Club |work=beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk |author=J Buddell |access-date=23 September 2012 |location=Beckenham, United Kingdom |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722091316/http://www.beckenhamtennisclub.co.uk/photos/Beck_M_Roll.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2012 }}</ref> At Wimbledon 1919, Kingscote beat [[William Laurentz]], [[Max Decugis]] and [[Pat O'Hara Wood]] before losing in the all comers final to [[Gerald Patterson]].<ref name="gsta">{{cite web|title=Wimbledon 1919|url=http://www.tennis.co.nf/WIMBLEDON%201919.htm|website=www.tennis.co.nf}}</ref> He won the singles title at the [[1919 Australasian Championships (tennis)|1919 Australasian Championships]], along with the first [[Anthony Wilding]] Memorial Medal, beating [[Eric Pockley]] of [[New South Wales]] in the final in straight sets.<ref name="Argus" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65025158 |title=TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. |newspaper=[[The Register (Adelaide)|The Register]] |location=Adelaide |date=29 January 1920 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In the [[1920 Wimbledon Championships]] he reached the doubles final alongside [[James Cecil Parke]] but eventually lost to the team of [[Chuck Garland|Garland]]–[[Richard Norris Williams|Williams]].<ref name="barrier">{{cite journal |date=5 July 1920 |title=Sporting – tennis |author=United Service Message |journal=[[The Barrier Miner]] |location=Broken Hill, Australia |page=1 |volume=33 |issue=9928 |access-date=23 September 2012 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45504890}}</ref> In 1921 Kingscote was a runner-up at the [[Monte-Carlo Masters|Monte-Carlo Championships]] losing to fellow countryman [[Gordon Lowe]] in four sets.<ref name="sports.fr">{{cite web |url=http://www.sports.fr/tennis/palmares/palmares-monte-carlo.html |archive-date=18 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418171815/http://www.sports.fr/tennis/palmares/palmares-monte-carlo.html |date=17 February 2011 |title=Palmarès Monte-Carlo |publisher=Pascal Laroche, Groupe Lagardère |work=sports.fr |editor=Axel Capron |access-date=23 September 2012 |location=Levallois-Perret, France}}</ref> He represented Great Britain in the [[Davis Cup]] seven times between 1919 and 1924 compiling a 9–8 win-loss record. In the [[1922 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles|1922 Wimbledon Championships]] first round against [[Leslie Godfree]] they established the routine of saluting the Royal Box by bowing in front of it, a tradition that was in effect to 2003.<ref name="telegraph">{{cite journal |date=30 April 2003 |title=Wimbledon abandons the Royal Box curtsey |author=John Parsons |author2=Caroline Davies |journal=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |editor=Martin Newland |issn=0307-1235 |access-date=23 September 2012 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1428705/Wimbledon-abandons-the-Royal-Box-curtsey.html}}</ref> He won the [[Queen's Club Championships]] in 1924 beating Gordon Lowe in four sets in the final.<ref name="Sydneymh">{{cite journal |date=24 June 1924 |title=Lawn tennis – London Championships |journal=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |page=9 |issue=26,979 |access-date=23 September 2012 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16154507}}</ref>

===Playing style===
U.S. Championships quarterfinalist American [[Dean Mathey]] described his style as "well rounded" in 1920 at the time when he was considered the best British outdoors player. He favored volleying and had good ground strokes. His service was fair but his game lacked speed and strength.<ref name="NYTribune">{{cite journal |date=20 January 1920 |title=Australians lead, 2 to 1, in defense of net trophy |author=Fred Hawthorne |journal=[[New-York Tribune]] |page=14 |volume=79 |issue=26,728 |access-date=23 September 2012 |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-01-20/ed-1/seq-14/}}</ref> The next year professional world number one player [[Bill Tilden]] agreed with Mathey that his game is well rounded but lacks speed.<ref name="Tilden6" /> He described his hitting as well-paced,<ref name="Tilden1">Tilden (1921), p. 14</ref> his service as a fast sliced, well placed, paced, twisted and cleverly disguised<ref name="Tilden6" /> and his style as a defensive one relying mostly on his half-volley baseline returns.<ref name="Tilden3">Tilden (1921), p. 42</ref> He dedicated Kingscote's court positioning and good volleying skills as a compensation for Kingscote's rather short appearance.<ref name="Tilden4">Tilden (1921), p. 45</ref> Kingscote adapted to the combination of net attack and baseline game, which Tilden praised as a key factor of successful tennis style.<ref name="Tilden5">Tilden (1921), p. 103-104</ref> His favorite shot was the cross court forehand shot.<ref name="Tilden6" /> His backhand was steady, accurate and deceptive.<ref name="Tilden6" />

==Personal life==
Algernon Kingscote was born on 3 December 1888 to Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Kingscote (b. 29 Apr 1845, d. 17 Mar 1917) and famous novelist Adeline Wolff known as [[Lucas Cleeve]]. He had two siblings, Henry Robert Fitzhardinge Kingscote (b. 1 Oct 1887) and Iris Adeline Harriett Augusta Kingscote (b. 5 Aug 1886, d. 8 Jun 1970).<ref name="headington">{{cite web |url=http://www.headington.org.uk/history/famous_people/kingscote.htm |date=10 August 2012 |title=Mrs Adeline Kingscote, née Wolff ("Lucas Cleeve") (1860–1908) |work=headington.org.uk |author=Stephanie Jenkins |access-date=23 September 2012 |location=Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom}}</ref> Like his father he joined the army in 1910 serving for the [[Royal Garrison Artillery]].<ref name="aucklandstar">{{cite journal |date=16 January 1920 |title=The Englishman |agency=Cable Press Association |journal=[[Auckland Star]] |page=5 |volume=51 |issue=14 |access-date=23 September 2012 |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS19200116.2.61}}</ref> He was a Second Lieutenant when stationing at [[Plympton]], [[Devon]] in 1911.<ref name="headington" /> He was engaged in World War I where he fought at the [[First Battle of the Aisne]]<ref name="aucklandstar" /> earning the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] and the award of [[Military Cross]].<ref name="headington" /> After the war he went back competing in tennis tournaments and was appointed the captain of the [[Great Britain Davis Cup team]], while still serving in the army as a colonel.<ref name="aucklandstar" /> He married Marjorie Paton Hindley, daughter of Douglas C. P. Hindley, on 9 September 1919, and had two daughters Rachel and Marjorie and later a son David, who died on 5 September 1945 at age 20 at Burma, killed in action.<ref name="headington" /> At the age of 52 at the outbreak of World War II he was sent back to action again.<ref name="headington" /> He died on 21 December 1964 [[Woking, Surrey]], Great Britain.<ref name="headington" />

==Grand Slam finals ==
[[File:Algernon Kingscote.jpg|thumb|Algernon Kingscote smash]]

===Singles ===
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!style="width:160px"|Opponent
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|- style="background:#ffc;"
| style="background:#98fb98;" | Win
| [[1919 Australasian Championships (tennis)|1919]] || [[Australian Open|Australasian Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Eric Pockley]] || 6–4, 6–0, 6–3
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| style="background:#ffa07a;" | Loss
| [[1919 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles|1919]] || [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon Championships]] || Grass || {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Gerald Patterson]] || 6–2, 6–1, 6–3<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/players/43ef4a1c-5a52-47de-935a-05299d7ca111/index.html |title=ALGY KINGSCOTE |work=[[The Championships, Wimbledon]] |publisher=[[All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club]] |access-date=6 July 2013}}</ref>
|}

===Doubles===
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!style="width:130px" class="unsortable"|Score
|- style="background:#cfc;"
| style="background:#ffa07a;" | Loss
| [[1920 Wimbledon Championships|1920]]
| [[Wimbledon Championships]]
| Grass
| {{flagicon|IRL}} [[James Cecil Parke]]
| {{flagicon|USA|1912}} [[Chuck Garland]] <br /> {{flagicon|USA|1912}} [[R. Norris Williams]]
| 6–4, 4–6, 5–7, 2–6
|}

====World Hard Court Championships====
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!style="width:40px"|Result
!style="width:30px"|Year
!style="width:165px"|Championship
!style="width:50px"|Surface
!style="width:160px"|Partner
!style="width:160px"|Opponents
!style="width:130px" class="unsortable"|Score
|- style="background:#ebc2af;"
| style="background:#ffa07a;" | Loss
| 1914 || [[Stade Français]] || Clay || {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Arthur Gore (tennis)|Arthur Gore]] || {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Max Decugis]]<br /> {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Maurice Germot]] || 6–1, 11–9, 6–8, 6–2
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|40em}}

==Sources==
* [[Bill Tilden]] (1921). [https://archive.org/details/artlawntennis00tildgoog The Art of Lawn Tennis] (second ed.). London, United Kingdom: |Methuen & Co. {{ISBN|1421900106}}. Retrieved 11 June 2012.

==External links==
* {{ATP}}
* {{ITF}}
* {{Davis Cup player}}

{{Australian Open men's singles champions}}
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