Women’s Team Events 1920′s -1930′s

December 18, 2011
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Although Australian Men were traveling and playing in tournaments over the 1890′s to early 1900 period, women’s tennis rated poorly.  The Davis Cup competition inspired the international tennis playing nations yet it was until 1963 that an equivalent event, the Federation Cup was instigated. In the 1920′s the UK and USA teams did play the […]

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Tennis Heritage Australia News Q4 2011

December 7, 2011

Hi tennis enthusiasts, These last few months have been very interesting and exciting. We recently decided to form a group of tennis enthusiasts to help promote the history and help foster programmes to expose tennis history to the public.  The group Tennis Heritage Australia has two groups, one in Melbourne and a very new group […]

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Emrik Racquets

November 25, 2011

As the transition from wood to graphite racquets took place in the late 1970′s, the established Australian Industry comprising Slazenger, Dunlop, Spalding and Oliver seemed to underestimate the potential of these new space age materials. Metal racquets while novel were often the cause of tennis elbow and so wooden racquets got a reprieve.  The first […]

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Famous Tennis Signatures

April 21, 2011
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Imagine the surprise of finding this amazing array of (reproduction) signatures celebrating the USA UK pair of Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward at the Cafe Royal, Regent St West on July 2nd 1901. At least by sharing them with you here at tennishistory.com.au you will be able to compare them against other signatures that may […]

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Early Tennis Movie Clips

April 9, 2011

Thanks to a relatively unknown newsreel production company called British Pathe who have converted their library to an online preview site, we can now link you to movie footage of some of Australia’s historic tennis events. Please note that there is a search engine and you can buy clips or still frames for personal use […]

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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 won […]

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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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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 7000+ […]

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Lawn Tennis Court Hire at Rippon Lea

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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