Spencer Gore (sportsman)

Spencer William Gore (March 10, 1850 – april 19, 1906) was a British tennis player and cricketer.

He was born in Wimbledon Common in South west London. Gore has become known as the first ever winner of the tennis tournament of Wimbledon in 1877. In the final he defeated William Marshall in three sets, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. He was the following year as reigning champion automatically qualified for the final, but he lost this by Frank Hadow, 7-5, 6-1, 9-7. Then he stopped with tennis, said it because he found the sport too boring. Between 1874 and 1879 he came also out five times for the English cricket team.

Gore was the father of painter Spencer Frederick Gore.