The 1887 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament which took place at the All England Club

All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club , also known as the All-England Club, based at Aorangi Park, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass...

. From 1880 to 1887 the men's singles draw fell from 60 to 16, this was attributed to the superior expertise of the Renshaw brothers and Herbert Lawford

Herbert Lawford

Herbert Lawford was a tennis player from Great Britain who won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1887, and was runner-up five times....

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Gentlemen's Singles

  Herbert Lawford

Herbert Lawford

Herbert Lawford was a tennis player from Great Britain who won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1887, and was runner-up five times....

defeated   Ernest Renshaw

Ernest Renshaw

Ernest Renshaw was an English tennis player.Together with his twin brother William Renshaw, Ernest won the men's doubles at Wimbledon five times. He also won the singles championship at Wimbledon once, in 1888 and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1983...

, 1–6, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4, 6–4.

Ladies' Singles

  Lottie Dod

Lottie Dod

Charlotte "Lottie" Dod was an English sportswoman best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen, in the summer of 1887...

defeated   Blanche Bingley

Blanche Bingley

Blanche Bingley was an English tennis player.Born in Greenford in the London Borough of Ealing, Blanche Bingley was a member of the "Ealing Lawn Tennis & Archery Club." In 1884, she competed in the first ever Wimbledon championships for women and two years later captured the first of her six...

, 6–2, 6–0.

Gentlemen's Doubles

  Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert Wilberforce

Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce was a British male tennis player and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club . In 1887 he and Patrick Bowes-Lyon won the doubles in Wimbledon. He was the grandson of abolitionist William Wilberforce....

 /   Patrick Bowes-Lyon

Patrick Bowes-Lyon

Patrick Bowes-Lyon was a British male tennis player and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the mother of Elizabeth II....

defeated   James Herbert Crispe /   E. Barratt-Smith, 6–3, 6–3, 6–2.