1914 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
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Norman Brookes Sir Norman Everard Brookes (14 November 187728 September 1968) was an Australian tennis player. During his career he won three Grand Slam singles titles; Wimbledon in 1907 and 1914 (the first non-British individual to do so) and the Austral ...
defeated Otto Froitzheim 6–2, 6–1, 5–7, 4–6, 8–6 in the All Comers' Final, and then defeated the reigning champion
Anthony Wilding Anthony Frederick Wilding (31 October 1883 – 9 May 1915), also known as Tony Wilding, was a New Zealand world No. 1 tennis player and soldier who was killed in action during World War I. Considered the world's first tennis superstar, Wildin ...
6–4, 6–4, 7–5 in the challenge round to win the gentlemen's singles tennis title at the 1914 Wimbledon Championships. It would be the last Wimbledon tournament for five years due to
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
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Draw


Challenge round


All-Comers' Finals


Top half


Section 1


Section 2


Section 3


Section 4


Bottom half


Section 5


Section 6


Section 7


Section 8


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:1914 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles Men's Singles Wimbledon Championship by year – Men's singles