Ko da yake wasan tennis ya riga ya zama babban wasanni a ƙarshen karni na 19, babu wani daga cikin manyan 'yan wasan da suka fito don gasar a Athens. An gudanar da gasar a kotunan Athens Lawn Tennis Club, da kuma filin da aka yi amfani da shi don wasanni na keke. John Pius Boland, wanda ya lashe gasar, ya shiga gasar ta hanyar abokin karatunsa a Oxford; Girkanci, Konstantinos Manos. A matsayin memba na kwamiti na Athens Lawn Tennis, Manos ya yi ƙoƙari, tare da taimakon Boland, don tattara masu fafatawa don wasannin Athens daga cikin wasanni na jami'ar Oxford. A zagaye na farko, Boland ya ci Friedrich Traunun, dan wasan tennis mai ban sha'awa daga Hamburg, wanda aka cire a gasar tseren mita 100.
Ƙasar Boland