Algernon Kingscote

Algernon " Algie " Robert Fitzhardinge Kingscote ( born December 3, 1888 in Bangalore, India, † December 21, 1964 in Woking, Surrey, England ) was a British tennis player.

He was the son of Colonel Howard Kingscote (1846-1917) and the writer Adeline Georgiana Isabella Wolff (1860-1908) and had two older siblings. The family moved in 1895 from India to England and bought the Bury Knowle House in Headington, Oxford; because of accumulated debt from the mother had in 1899, the entire household foreclosed and the house will leave.

In 1919 Algernon Kingscote won the men's singles at the Australian Tennis Championships, Australian Open today. He won the final against Eric Pockley with 6:4, 6:0, 6:3.

Also in 1919 he reached with the team of the United Kingdom the final of the International Lawn Tennis Challenge ( forerunner of the Davis Cup ), but was beaten by Australia 4-1. Overall, Kingscote played 1919-1924 17 times for the British team and won 9 of 17 games.

Kingscote took 1914-1927 several times at the Wimbledon Championships in part, but could not win another Grand Slam title. He reached in 1920 and 1924, the quarter-finals in the men's singles and 1920, together with James Cecil Parke in the final of the men's doubles, which she lost to Richard Norris Williams and Chuck Garland with 6:4, 4:6, 5:7, 2:6. Also worth mentioning is that he won the first game in the newly inaugurated Centre Court on Church Road, the opening match of the Wimbledon tournament in 1922, against Leslie Godfree 6:1, 6:3, 6:0 on June 26, 1922; However, he retired prematurely to eventual Wimbledon champion Gerald Patterson.

Kingscote took also without success at the Summer Olympic Games in 1924 partly in Paris.

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