Thomas Chaytor (13 November 1870 – 30 January 1951) was an Irish tennis player. He was Irish Lawn tennis Championships finalist in 1894 losing to Joshua Pim.[1] He was a semi finalist at the 1894 Wimbledon Championships in the men's singles event and a quarter finalist in the men's doubles event. He won seven career titles out of fifteen finals.[2]
Career
Tom Chaytor was born on 13 November 1870 in Killiney, County Dublin in Ireland. He was one of three of his brothers who also played tennis, including the 1890 Wimbledon quarter finalist Grainger Chaytor. He played his first tournament at the 1890 County Dublin Championships at the Lansdowne Lawn Tennis Club where he reached the semi-finals losing to Thomas Harrison Griffiths in 3 sets.[3]
In March 1894, Chaytor reached the final of the Irish Championships, where he faced defending champion and Wimbledon champion Joshua Pim Chaytor hit great passing shots and his backhand was winning him a lot of points. Pim won, by the score of 9–7 in the fifth set.[9] In May 1894 he won his second Fitzwilliam Club Championships defeating George Greene in the challenge round.[10]
At the 1894 Wimbledon Championships in July that year where Tom played only once, he beat Horace Chapman, Clement Cazalet and Ernest George Meers, before handing a walkover to Wilfred Baddeley in the semi-finals (he couldn't play because of badly blistered feet).[11] In May 1895 he won the Fitzwilliam Club Championships for the third time beating Walter Herbert Boyd in 3 sets. He won seven career titles overall.[12]
