The number of withdrawals resulted in empty brackets, with one player making it to the final without playing a single match while another had to win two to advance to that point.

[2] The tournament was held from 7 to 11 July at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

France would also have made its second appearance, and Austria and Hungary their debuts, but the players for those three nations all withdrew.

The Olympics started three days after the end of the 1908 Wimbledon Championships, a scheduling issue which the Official Report recommended avoiding in the future.

Morton was the only other player to win a match, defeating Greene in the first round before losing to Chambers in the quarterfinals.