1912 Australasian Championships (tennis)

The 1912 Australasian Championships (now known as the Australian Open) were held at Hastings

Hastings, New Zealand

The city of Hastings is a major urban settlement in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand, and it is the largest settlement by population in Hawke's Bay. Hastings city is the administrative centre of the Hastings District...

. Travel by sea was slow, limiting the attendance of Australian players, and New Zealand player Tony Wilding

Tony Wilding

Anthony "Tony" Frederick Wilding was a champion tennis player from Christchurch, New Zealand and a soldier killed in action during World War I near Neuve-Chapelle, Pas-de-Calais, France....

did not return from Europe. Below are the results and a list of Champions :

Men's singles

James Cecil Parke

James Cecil Parke was an Irish rugby player, tennis player, golfer and Olympic medallist.Parke was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. He played rugby with both Monkstown and Dublin University and between 1901 and 1908 played ten times for Leinster...

defeated

Alfred Beamish

Alfred Beamish was an English tennis player born in London, United Kingdom. He finished runner-up to James Cecil Parke in the singles final of the Australasian Championships, the future Australian Open, in 1912...

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