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Auction: 26063 - Where History Meets Passion - SPINK x BUDDS Live Auction
Lot: 11

A 1921 silver World Championships on Grass Doubles Finalist medal, the obverse inscribed WORLD'S LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP ON GRASS, the reverse inscribed Men's Doubles, A H Lowe, F.G. Lowe RUNNERS-UP 1921, in original fitted caseThis was the last year that the Championships were played on the All England Club Grounds in Worple Road, Wimbledon before moving to the new grounds in Church Road. This was also the final year that the Challenge Round was used. The title of World's Lawn Tennis Championships on Grass ceased to be used after 1923 thus satisfying the (then) United States Lawn Tennis Association (now USTA) and so paving the way for the Grand Slam structure as we currently know it 

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240