1897 U.S. National Championships (tennis)

List of Champions of the 1897 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open):

Men's Singles

----Robert "Bob" Duffield Wrenn was a left-handed American tennis player, four-time U.S. singles championship winner, and one of the first "enshrinees" in the International Tennis Hall of Fame....

defeated

Wilberforce Eaves

Wilberforce Vaughan Eaves was a male tennis player from the United Kingdom. At the 1908 London Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's singles tournament. He was also the first non-American to reach the final in the US National Singles Championships in 1897.-Runner-ups :...

4-6 8-6 6-3 2-6 6-2

Women's Singles

Juliette Atkinson

Juliette Paxton Atkinson was an American female tennis player. She was born in Rahway, New Jersey, United States....

defeated

Elisabeth Moore

Elisabeth Holmes Moore was an American tennis champion. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971.-Biography:She was born on March 5, 1876 in Brooklyn...

6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3

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