Laurence Doherty

Laurence Doherty

Full name	Hugh Laurence Doherty
Country	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born	(1875-10-08)8 October 1875 Wimbledon, England
Died	21 August 1919(1919-08-21) (aged 43) Broadstairs, England
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Retired	1906
Plays	Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Int. Tennis HOF	1980 (member page)
Singles
Highest ranking	No. 1 (1898, Karoly Mazak)[1]
Grand Slam Singles results
Wimbledon	W (1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906)
US Open	W (1903)
Other tournaments
Olympic Games	Gold Medal (1900)
Doubles
Grand Slam Doubles results
Wimbledon	W (1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905)
US Open	W (1902, 1903)
Other Doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	Gold Medal (1900)
Other Mixed Doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	Bronze Medal (1900)
Team competitions
Davis Cup	W (1903, 1904, 1905, 1906)

Olympic medal record
Men's tennis
Competitor for  United Kingdom
Olympic Games
Gold	1900 Paris	Singles
Gold	1900 Paris	Doubles
Competitor for a Mixed team
Bronze	1900 Paris	Mixed doubles

Laurence Doherty

Hugh Laurence "Laurie" Doherty (8 October 1875 – 21 August 1919) was a former World No. 1 English tennis player and younger brother of Reggie Doherty. He was a six-time slam champion and a double Olympic Gold medalist at the 1900 Summer Olympics in singles and doubles (also winning a Bronze in mixed doubles).^[2]

Career

Laurence Doherty (right) with his brother Reginald.

Born 8 October 1875 in Wimbledon, London, Doherty was the shorter of the two brothers, at 1.78m, who played championship tennis in their native England and at Wimbledon at the turn of the century.

He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he played for the Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club.^[3]

Known as "Little Do",^[4] Doherty won Wimbledon five consecutive times in singles and eight times in doubles with his brother. In 1903, he became the first tennis player to win a Grand Slam tournament outside of his native country by beating defending champion William Larned at the US Championships 6–0, 6–3, 10–8. He won the singles title at the British Covered Court Championships, played at the Queen's Club in London, six consecutive times between 1901 and 1906.^[5] Additionally he won The South of France Championships (Nice) singles title seven times in a row (1900–1906). He gave up tennis for golf in 1906 and distinguished himself in that sport as well.^[6]

In World War I, Doherty served in the Anti-Aircraft branch of the Royal Navy Reserves but was released due to ill health.^[7]

The brothers were reportedly urged to play tennis by their father, for health reasons.^[4] The brothers apparently had respiratory problems.^[6]

The brothers co-wrote R.F. and H.L. Doherty on Lawn Tennis (1903).

Doherty died 21 August 1919 in Broadstairs, Kent. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1980 together with his brother.^[8]

Grand Slam record

• Wimbledon
  • Singles champion: 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906
  • Singles runner-up: 1898
  • Men's Doubles champion: 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905
  • Men's Doubles runner-up: 1902, 1906

• US Championships
  • Singles champion: 1903
  • Men's Doubles champion: 1902, 1903
  • Men's Doubles runner-up: 1902, 1906

Grand Slam record

Singles

Titles (6)

Year	Championship	Opponent	Score
1902	Wimbledon Championships	Arthur Gore	6–4, 6–3, 3–6, 6–0
1903	Wimbledon Championships	Frank Riseley	7–5, 6–3, 6–0
1903	US National Championships	Bill Larned	6–0, 6–3, 10–8
1904	Wimbledon Championships	Frank Riseley	6–1, 7–5, 8–6
1905	Wimbledon Championships	Norman Brookes	8–6, 6–2, 6–4
1906	Wimbledon Championships	Frank Riseley	6–4, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3

Doubles

Titles (10)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents	Score
1897	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Wilfred Baddeley Herbert Baddeley	6–4, 4–6, 8–6, 6–4
1898	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Harold Nisbet Clarence Hobart	6–4, 6–4, 6–2
1899	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Harold Nisbet Clarence Hobart	7–5, 6–0, 6–2
1900	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Herbert Roper Barrett Harold Nisbet	9–7, 7–5, 4–6, 3–6, 6–3
1901	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Dwight F. Davis Holcombe Ward	4–6, 6–2, 6–3, 9–7
1902	US Championships	Reginald Doherty	Holcombe Ward Dwight F. Davis	11–9, 12–10, 6–4
1903	US Championships	Reginald Doherty	Kreigh Collins L. Harry Waidner	7–5, 6–3, 6–3
1903	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Sidney Smith Frank Riseley	6–4, 6–4, 6–4
1904	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Sidney Smith Frank Riseley	6–1, 6–2, 6–4
1905	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Sidney Smith Frank Riseley	6–2, 6–4, 6–8, 6–3

Runners-up (2)

Year	Championship	Partner	Opponents	Score
1902	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Sidney Smith Frank Riseley	6–4, 6–8, 3–6, 6–4, 9–11
1906	Wimbledon Championships	Reginald Doherty	Sidney Smith Frank Riseley	6–8, 6–4, 5–7, 6–3, 6–3

Singles titles

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score
1.	1897	Suffolk Championship, New Zealand	Grass	Charles Henry Ridding	6–3, 8–6, 4–6, 6–1
2.	18 July 1897	Queen's Club Championships, London, England[9]	Grass	Josiah Ritchie	6–2, 6–2, 6–2
3.	March 1898	South of France Championships	Clay	J.R. Hay Gordon	6–1, 6–2, 6–1
4.	March 1898	Monte Carlo	Clay	Count Voss	4–6, 6–3, 6–3, 4–0 ret.
5.	18 June 1898	Northern Lawn Tennis Association Tournament, Liverpool[10]	Grass	Wilfred Baddeley	walkover
6.	11 July 1898	Queen's Club Championships, London, England[11]	Grass	Harold Mahoney	6–3, 6–4, 9–7
7.	August 1898	Scottish Championships[12]	Grass	Reginald Doherty	walkover
8.	March 1899	South of France Championships, Nice	Clay	Count Voss	6–0, 6–0, 6–0
9.	March 1900	South of France Championships, Nice	Clay	Reginald Doherty	walkover
10.	11 July 1900	Olympic Games, Paris	Clay	Harold Mahoney	6–4, 6–2, 6–3
11.	26 August 1900	Homburg, Germany	Clay	George Hillyard	7–5, 6–2, 3–6, 4–6, 6–2
12.	September 1900	Dinard, France	Clay	Harold Mahoney	4–6, 6–1, 8–6, 7–5
13.	16 September 1900	South of England Championships	Grass	Sidney Smith	6–4, 1–6, 6–2, 6–1
14.	March 1901	Cannes, France	Clay	George Hillyard	6–3, 6–3, ret.
15.	17 March 1901	Monte Carlo	Clay	Wilberforce Eaves	6–2, 5–7, 6–1
16.	24 March 1901	South of France Championships, Nice	Clay	Wilberforce Eaves	6–2, 6–3, 6–2
17.	27 April 1901	British Covered Courts Championships[13]	Wood	Arthur Gore	6–3, 6–1, 6–1
18.	June 1901	Kent Championships, Beckenham, England[14]	Grass	Arthur Gore	6–1, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4
19.	August 1901	Buxton Championships	Grass	George Hillyard	6–4, 7–5, 3–6, 6–2
20.	August 1901	North of England Championships, Scarborough	Grass	Ernest Black	6–2, 6–1, 6–1
21.	March 1902	South of France Championships, Nice	Clay	Reginald Doherty	walkover
22.	April 1902	British Covered Court Championships, Queens, London	Wood	Josiah Ritchie	6–4, 6–3, 5–7, 6–3
23.	May – June 1902	Irish Championships, Dublin	Grass	Reginald Doherty	walkover
24.	15 June 1902	Kent Championships, Beckenham, England[14]	Grass	George Simond	6–4, 6–0, 6–3
25.	June 1902	Wimbledon Championships[15]	Grass	Arthur Gore	6–4, 6–3, 3–6, 6–0
26.	October 1902	European Championships, Queen's Club, London[16]	Wood	Harold Mahony	4–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–1
27.	15 March 1903	South of France Championships, Nice	Clay	Sidney Smith	5–7, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–3
28.	26 April 1903	British Covered Court Championships, Queens, London	Wood	George Hillyard	6–1, 4–6, 6–4, 6–2
29.	4 July 1903	Kent Championships, Beckenham, England[14]	Grass	Arthur Gore	6–1, 6–2, 6–2
30.	June 1903	Wimbledon Championships	Grass	Frank Riseley	7–5, 6–3, 6–0
31.	1 August 1903	Nahant, USA[17]	Grass	William Clothier	6–4, 6–0
32.	14 August 1903	Southampton, USA[18][19]	Grass	Bill Larned	6–1, 6–2, 6–1
33.	27 August 1903	US National Championships, Newport, USA[20]	Grass	Bill Larned	6–0, 6–3, 10–8
34.	14 March 1904	South of France Championships, Nice[21]	Clay	Josiah Ritchie	6–2, 6–3, 6–3
35.	20 March 1904	Cannes Championships, France	Clay	Josiah Ritchie	6–1, 6–4, 6–1
36.	April 1904	British Covered Court Championships, Queens, London	Wood	Josiah Ritchie	6–2, 8–10, 5–7, 6–4, 6–3
37.	27 June 1904	Wimbledon Championships[22][23]	Grass	Frank Riseley	6–1, 7–5, 8–6
38.	July 1904	Northumberland Championships, England	Wood	George Ball-Greene	6–4, 6–1
39.	March 1905	Monte Carlo[24]	Clay	Josiah Ritchie	6–4, 8–6, 6–4
40.	March 1905	South of France Championships, Nice[25]	Clay	Edward Allen	6–3, 7–5, 7–5
41.	15 April 1905	British Covered Court Championships, London[26]	Wood	Josiah Ritchie	6–1, 8–6, 6–2
42.	July 1905	Wimbledon Championships[27]	Grass	Norman Brookes	8–6, 6–2, 6–4
43.	28 February 1906	Monte Carlo[28]	Clay	Wilberforce Eaves	6–3, 11–9
44.	18 March 1906	South of France Championships, Nice[29]	Clay	Tony Wilding	6–3, 8–6, 6–2
45.	28 April 1906	British Covered Court Championships, London[30]	Wood	Arthur Gore	6–2, 6–4, 8–6
46.	July 1906	Wimbledon Championships[31][32]	Grass	Frank Riseley	6–4, 4–6, 6–2, 6–3
47.	August 1908	Yorkshire Championships[33]	Grass	George Hillyard	6–1, 6–4, 6–2
48.	July 1909	Nottinghamshire Championships, Nottingham[34]	Grass	Wilberforce Eaves	6–3, 6–4
49.	Augustus 1909	North of England Championships, Scarborough[35]	Grass	Gordon Lowe	7–5, 6–1, 6–1
50.	August 1910	North of England Championships, Scarborough[36]	Grass	Gordon Lowe	6–3, 6–2, 6–2

References

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