Overseas Collectors Groups
The two major groups are based in the UK and USA.
UK Tennis Collectors Society Email Bob Everitt bobeveritt at virginmedia.com replace at with @
Tennis Collectors of America can be contacted via web click here
Playing Tennis
Coaching Website – Interview with Grand Slam Champions: http://TennisAssist.com
Events & Players
Australian Players List http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_tennis_players
Link to player details via this list….
Grand Slam Win/RU results (player search engine) www.grandslamshistory.com
Grand Slam draws round by round, winners and losers etc. terrific resource.
Visit http://www.tennisarchives.com/index.php select tournament, select winner of that year and you will see the draw of the winner, if you click the YEAR itself, the whole draw will be displayed.
Ladies Grand Slam Table showing all women who reached the final of at least one grand slam.
Mens Grand Slam Table as above. Both are a very easy to analyse. The Mens results start from 1967.
Wimbledon Archive Search (by player name/event/year etc) http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/draws/archive/index.html
Davis Cup History http://www.daviscup.com/about/history/index.asp
Davis Cup Player Search http://www.daviscup.com/teams/playersearch.asp
Davis Cup Win Loss Record for players 1905-2007 Tennis Australia
Federation Cup History http://www.fedcup.com/en/organisation/fed-cup-history.aspx
Federation Cup Player Search http://www.fedcup.com/en/players/player-search.aspx
Fed Cup Win Loss Record for players 1963 on Tennis Australia
Australian Open http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/index.html
Australian Open Results (all events) http://www.australian-open-tennis.com/history-mens-singles.php
ATP Site with Individual Player Results history/head to head wins/player search/
tournaments (this site gives you a huge amount of data back to 1973 by tournament) http://www.atpworldtour.com/Players/Player-Landing.aspx
International Tennis Hall of Fame http://www.tennisfame.com/
Italian Championships Results Men’s and Ladies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internazionali_BNL_d%27Italia
Rare Video Footage of players
See selected Early Tennis Videos page on this site.
From England www.britishpathe.com
From the USA www.criticalpast.com
Rare Inteviews with players
90 Minutes over 2 sessions with Jack Crawford https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-215084834/listen
180 Minutes over 4 sessions with Adrian Quist https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-222786454/listen
Equipment
Vintage Tennis Balls – Amazing collection http://www.vintagetennisballs.com/
Wood Tennis: A very good collection of racquets from all eras http://www.woodtennis.com
USA Vintage Wood Racquets (good photo decal section) http://www.tennisyesteryear.com/
Rolf JaegerTennis Boutique http://tennisboutique.com/memorabilia-collection
USA Tennis Collector http://www.antiquetennis.com
80′s Tennis Website- excellent contributions by many collectors http://www.80s-tennis.com/index.html
Extensive Australian Racquet Collection http://www.merindolhalltennis.com.au/index.htm
Beautiful Collection of Vintage Tennis Racquets (Spain) http://www.raqueta.net/
Exceptional USA / Global Racquet Collection www.driftwaycollection.com
Italian Vintage Tennis Museum www.tennisvintage.it
Books/ Magazines http://www.tenniscollectables.com/index.htm
Excellent collection of tennis memorabilia http://jimstennis.com/contextRoot/html/home/index.html
Tennis Collection from the Netherlands www.vintagetennisgems.nl
Stringing Machinery, Equipment Library (excellent) www.photostringer.com
Exceptional Squash Racquet Collection from Australia www.squashcollection.com
Jim’s Tennis UK https://jimstennis.com/contextRoot/html/home/index.html
General Tennis
Tennis Governing Body ITF (Rules etc) http://www.itftennis.com/abouttheitf/
The Tennis Times http://thetennistimes.com
Tennis Articles via National Library Newspaper BETA http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
UK newspapers from 1870′s on (click free content) http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Australian Tennis Museum (NSW )
Features displays, research library and is open:-
Tuesdays 9am to 4pm
Thursdays 9am to 4pm
Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre, Rod Laver Drive, Sydney Olympic Park
Joanne Sippel Australian Tennis Museum Curator
Phone: 02 9024 7629 Email: JSippel@Tennis.com.au
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