Tennis Collection (page 7)

May Sutton Bundy, American tennis player
May Godfrey Sutton Bundy (September 25, 1886 October 4, 1975) female American tennis champion who was active during the first decades of the 20th century

Cause and Effect by Wallis Mills - tennis fashion cartoon
The new fashion for tennis shorts inspires one player to discard her dress and play in her underwear, much to the consternation and shock of some elderly female spectators. Date: 1931

Jean Borotra (1898-1994), French tennis player known as the Bounding Basque pictured before his match with A. J. Wadsworth in the first round of the United States indoor tennis championships

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - playing tennis. circa 1910s

Comerton Home, Newport-on-Tay, Fife
Children and staff in front of the Comerton Home, near Newport, Fife. Toys include a rocking horse and dolls house. Two boys hold tennis rackets. Date: circa 1905

Suzanne Lenglen, tennis player
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (1899-1938), French tennis player, nicknamed La Divine by the French press. Date: 1925

May Sutton
May Godfrey Sutton Bundy (1886 1975), American tennis champion who was active during the first decades of the 20th century. Photograph of Miss May Sutton after her victory. 1907

Craigside Hotel Hydro, Llandudno, North Wales. Date: circa 1950s

Young woman holding a tennis racket
Young woman in a sailor suit and straw hat, holding a tennis racket -- One to Love. Date: circa 1908

Suzanne Lenglens tennis outfits for Selfridges 1930
A page depicting the outfits designed and modelled by Suzanne Lenglen for Selfridges, knickers and blouse with adjustable skirt. 1930

Teddy Tinling tennis dress, 1958
A high-waisted white pique dress decorated with drawn tread work with a broderie anglaise underslip by Teddy Tinling, Englands leading desiger of functional but fashion-conscious tennis clothes

Living room with painted panels by Eric Ravilious
Living room in Sir Geoffrey Frys flat in London, with folding door panels painted with tennis scenes by Eric Ravilious. Date: 1933

Charlotte Dod - English sportswoman and tennis player
Charlotte " Lottie" Dod (1871-1960), sportswoman, tennis player and five times Wimbledon champion, was the youngest person ever to win a ladies singles title at Wimbledon

Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes, tennis at Wimbledon
Anthony Wilding and Norman Brookes as " gentlemen in waiting" on the weather at the 1914 Wimbledon tennis championship in July 1914

Suzanne Lenglen and Queen Mary, Wimbledon 1926
French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen pictured meeting Queen Mary on the Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1926. Lenglen had won the ladies singles championship the previous year. Date: 1926

Anthony Wilding with society at Monte Carlo
Tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion A. F. Wilding pictured at Monte Carlo with Lady Henry, Miss Elizabeth Asquith (daughter of the Prime Minister) and Miss Heinsins. Date: 1914

Edwardian tennis spectators showing styles and demeanour of the period Date: 1906

Woman with a tennis racquet, c. 1885
A young woman holding a tennis racquet. Date: c. 1885

War tennis tournament at Queens Club, 1916
A page from The Tatler reporting with photographs on a tennis tournament held in aid of the Star and Garter Home Fund for Disabled Soldiers, which took place on the 15 July 1916

Tennis champion Anthony Wilding & C. T. Craig
Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding (1883-1915), New Zealand born tennis player and four-times Wimbledon champion 1910-1913, pictured with Mr C. T. Craig, managing director of the firm Messrs

N. E. Brookes, tennis player
Norman Everard Brookes (1877-1968) Australian No. 1. tennis player and Wimbledon champion in 1907 and 1914. Brookes also played doubles with the New Zealander

Statue of the tennis player, Anthony Wilding
Physical Energy, a figure sculpted by Paul Troubetzkoy and based on the New Zealand tennis player, Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding. Wilding was Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913

Two cherubs playing tennis with love hearts. Valentines day postcard. Date: 1909

West Side Country Club, Ealing - tennis courts
Picturesque view of the tennis courts at the West Side Country Club at Ealing with spectators and competitors watching play. Date: 1928

Helen Jacobs
Helen Hull Jacobs (August 6, 1908 June 2, 1997), World No. 1 American female tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. Pictured winning the final of the United States womens singles championship

The Debutante by H. M. Bateman (Tennis at Wimbledon)
Humorous illustration by the master of social satire, H. M. Bateman showing a new tennis player on the famous centre court at Wimbledon, feeling very much as if all eyes are upon her. Date: 1926

Deauville - an artists impression by Tony Wysard
Humorous illustration depicting society at the fashionable French seaside resort of Deauville, indulging in polo, cocktails, gambling, horse racing and golf

The Avenue tennis racket advertising showcard, 1890
An exquisite advertising show card from around 1890 for The Avenue tennis racquet manufactured by Clapshaw and Cleave of Birmingham, Bradford and Brighton

Helen Wills Moody (USA) on court at Wimbledon
Helen Wills Moody walking on to court at Wimbledon 1938, where she went on to win the womens singles title. During the 1920s and 1930s Moody won 31 major titles

Prince Erik of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Vastmanland (Erik Gustav Ludvig Albert) (18891918). Date: circa 1905

A W Gamage Ltd. - Sports Outfitters of Holborn, London Date: circa 1905

The Summer Game by Rene Vincent
Summery illustration showing two fashionable 1920s ladies, one holding a glorious floral parasol as they watch a tennis match at a private club or house. Date: 1927

Jupe Pantalon tennis dress by Schiaparelli, 1930
An exclusive Bystander photograph showing the designer, Elsa Schiparellis practical but stylish jupe-pantalon tennis dress in light white woollen weave with a waist belt of orange coloured tussore

Kathleen McKane and Suzanne Lenglen, tennis players
Scenes from a Wimbledon tennis match between the top players, Miss Kathleen McKane and Mlle Suzanne Lenglen, representing England and France respectively

Gertrude Moran, American tennis player known as Gorgeous Gussie by Wimbledon fans, due in part to the frilly pants designed by Teddy Tinling she wore in 1949

Suzanne Lenglen (1899 - 1938), French tennis player, winner of 81 singles titles during the 1920s. Pictured on court running for a shot

Jean Borotra in action
Jean Borotra (1898-1994), French tennis player known as the Bounding Basque, pictured here in action during a match on the Wimbledon Centre Court in 1932 wearing his signature beret

All about our lawn tennis club 1886
Humorous sketches in the form of a comic strip by Arthur Hopkins all about our lawn tennis club in which a group of people decide to make their own tennis court by cutting down saplings

Poster advertising St Valery en Caux, a small fishing port and town in Normandy, northern France, offering tennis, yachting, and gambling at the casino

Front cover from the Illustrated London News
Front cover illustration by E. H. Shepherd for The Illustrated London News showing a young woman playing tennis

A Marker of Mark on The Market
A new labour saving lawn marker which is the sensation of the lawn tennis world. Requiring only two people to operate it, there is no doubt that it will soon be found in every up to date

DEUCE
Humorous Illustration showing Bonzo being disturbed by a flying tennis ball. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Le Levrier et L Hirondelle Renault
The airship Swallow flies over a group of people playing tennis beside a Renault motor car

Girls at Tennis Court
German girls talking beside a tennis court : So far as the score goes, the English are the champions : but when it comes to betrothals, we are the record-holders !

1930S Tennis Player
Stylised player performs a stylish backhand

Coming Off the Court
Two men walk off the court

Tennis / about to Serve
A lady prepares to serve, though we hope she is not going to do so while holding the racquet in this way !

Tennis / Ready to Serve
An elegantly if unsuitably dressed player prepares to serve

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