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
Events & Players
Australian Players List http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_tennis_players
Link to player details via this list….
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 https://www.daviscup.com/en/about/history
Davis Cup Player Search https://www.daviscup.com/en/players
Davis Cup Win Loss Record for players 1905-2007 Tennis Australia
Federation Cup History https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/more/about/historical-records
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/
Extensive Australian Racquet Collection https://tennis.merindolhall.com/
Exceptional USA / Global Racquet Collection www.driftwaycollection.com
Italian Vintage Tennis Museum www.tennisvintage.it
Books/ Magazines http://www.tenniscollectables.com/index.htm
Excellent UK collection of tennis memorabilia Jim’s Tennis https://jimstennis.com/contextRoot/html/about/about.html
Tennis Collection from the Netherlands www.vintagetennisgems.nl
Exceptional Squash Racquet Collection from Australia www.squashcollection.com
General Tennis
Tennis Governing Body ITF (Rules etc) https://www.itftennis.com/media/4421/2021-rules-of-tennis-english.pdf
National Library Newspaper Search Engine, Trove
Link is to “Lawn Tennis” search https://trove.nla.gov.au/search?keyword=Lawn%20tennis
UK newspapers from 1870’s (account required for viewing but sources come up in search which is handy http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Australian Tennis Museum (NSW )
Currently in storage