Collecting Tennis Tournament Tickets

March 23, 2011
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Tennis Programmes are excellent tennis collectibles and especially when signed by players who not only attend the event but won the event.  To these we can add tennis tickets and event menus and other autograph cards which players signed fro each other or dignitaries attending major functions.  The programmes provide valuable stories and event history [...]

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Earliest Known Interclub Tennis Tournament 1880

March 20, 2011

Local interclub competitions were conducted, certainly in 1880 in Melbourne, for we have just enjoyed seeing a trophy awarded to one of Victoria’s early champion players, Francis Highett.  This was the Geelong Recreation Club, Lawn Tennis Challenge Cup.  It was a bi annual tournament and another MCC member won it firstly and then Francis one [...]

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Rex Hartwig

March 16, 2011

Rex Hartwig played in the Australian Davis Cup team from 1953-1955. This year Keith Jenkins caught up with Rex who is still actively farming in northern Victoria. Rex was born on September 29th 1929 in Culcairn NSW. His parents both played tennis, his father one of the best in the area, so it comes as [...]

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Sweetest Racquet Ever

February 11, 2011

As part of the new sponsorship deal with Roger Federer, Lindt pulled out all stops seeking publicity in no better way than to package up a fullsize chocolate tennis racquet. Specs: semi dark chocolate, size: 69 cm, weight: 1400 gramms (1.4 kg!!!) Thanks to Hans from www.vintagetennisgems.nl Now we just need to think of some [...]

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Tennis Racquet Collecting

January 25, 2011

Since we began our journey to present the history of tennis through a website, a world of fellow collectors & historians has become apparent, all with the common interest of preserving and telling the story of tennis and its development through the years. Recently we received some photos from USA collector David. Now this 4600+ [...]

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Lawn Tennis Court Hire

January 23, 2011

Tennishistory.com.au has negotiated with historic Melbourne Mansion Rippon Lea to hire our supporters their grass court which has been a feature on the property since the mid 1880′s.  If you want to organise a great grass court event either just for the experience on grass, surrounded by magnificent gardens or an olde world event with [...]

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Empire / Baker & MacPherson

January 22, 2011

At some point in the early 1930′s as the giants of the industry, Alexander, Spalding and Slazenger were producing the bulk of the tennis racquets sold in Australia, small boutique firms tried to carve a niche for themselves using technology or simply producing their own limited release racquets with the usual visual design differences. The [...]

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Slazenger

January 9, 2011

The history of Slazenger is indeed a prestigious one for its close involvement with the development of the game, the growth of  the major championships and links to the games champion players. Slazenger UK began promoting sporting goods in the mid 1880′s adding a range of tennis, cricket and football equipment to their already successful [...]

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Randolph Lycett

January 8, 2011

To many Australian tennis fans , the name Randolph Lycett is not very well known, yet he played quite brilliant tennis for some three decades within Australia and overseas. Which country will claim Randolph as their own? The UK seem to have a stake for he was born on the 27th of August 1886 in [...]

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Interesting Tennis Memorabilia

January 8, 2011

The tennis theme can be found across many product categories and of course autographs are highly sought after. There are so many items with tennis themes and here are some examples. Wonderful Tennis Ball cleaner called “Kleenball” c 1905. Two identical halves twist together around the ball to remove dirt. Another larger model includes cavities [...]

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