Algernon Kingscote: Difference between revisions

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>