Courting Tennis: Love All
Vintage press prints of tennis stars from the 1920s to the 1960s
![Eileen Bennett Whittingstall](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_c4aa5cf095db46288a586ca95a496de8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_853,h_1211,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_c4aa5cf095db46288a586ca95a496de8~mv2.jpg)
![Suzanne Lenglen](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_34a1790f3b5c4f8caca98010fffc71f9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_889,h_1314,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_34a1790f3b5c4f8caca98010fffc71f9~mv2.jpg)
![Betty Nuthall](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_cc35e7978d7a48c9a4554f39307bb556~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_840,h_1403,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_cc35e7978d7a48c9a4554f39307bb556~mv2.jpg)
![Dorothy Round](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_80636bd0ebac4563bb3158c6eb4ca647~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_884,h_1128,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_80636bd0ebac4563bb3158c6eb4ca647~mv2.jpg)
playing against Helen Jacobs in the Wimbledon final, July 1934
![Helen Wills](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_bbfb09fc407947fe897053c2ad861df9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_867,h_1173,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_bbfb09fc407947fe897053c2ad861df9~mv2.jpg)
1926
![Betty Nuthall](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_98b551bbd4534f34b438e074018d9ac6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_886,h_1205,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_98b551bbd4534f34b438e074018d9ac6~mv2.jpg)
playing against Helen Jacobs at Wimbledon
![Henry Wilfred 'Bunny' Austin](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_31d1765c7d9d4cd3b00d545a6634ee91~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_859,h_1334,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_31d1765c7d9d4cd3b00d545a6634ee91~mv2.jpg)
![Helen Jacobs](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_a51fc9f85e7746898bfdd42eb72cbd18~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_857,h_1360,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_a51fc9f85e7746898bfdd42eb72cbd18~mv2.jpg)
c.1934
![Fred Perry](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_d9937a2776d3419389ed8b173b93c643~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_855,h_1326,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_d9937a2776d3419389ed8b173b93c643~mv2.jpg)
![The 1937 Wightman Cup team](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_eaa740051cf5486398e835adf6d03a53~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_738,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_eaa740051cf5486398e835adf6d03a53~mv2.jpg)
Kay Stammers, Freda James, Joan Ingram, Margot Lamb, May Hardwick and Evelyn Dearman, 1937
![The 1929 Wightman Cup teams](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_ddbd604fc76e445788f9196f812c1574~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_779,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_ddbd604fc76e445788f9196f812c1574~mv2.jpg)
L-r, back row: Betty Nuthall, Phoebe Holcroft Watson, Peggy Michell, Dorothy Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Howkins Covell. Front row: Edith Cross, Helen Wills, Helen Jacobs and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman
![The 1929 Wightman Cup GB team](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_74cb594d26564986bf9b2df0488b34d1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_769,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_74cb594d26564986bf9b2df0488b34d1~mv2.jpg)
Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, Peggy Michell, Phoebe Holcroft Watson, Beverley Carthew Covell (manager) Betty Nuthall and Phyllis Howkins Covell. Aboard the S.S. Aquitania, 1929
![Dorothy Round and her future husband, Douglas Leigh Little](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_6121868660a8447a9fbb5852cf9d23de~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_973,h_765,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_6121868660a8447a9fbb5852cf9d23de~mv2.jpg)
at Dorothy's home in Dudley, March 1937
![Dorothy Round](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_42767995135643e693add55e63ea25e1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_911,h_671,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_42767995135643e693add55e63ea25e1~mv2.jpg)
in Hyde Park, after her victory over Helen Jacobs in the Wimbledon final, July 1934
![Dorothy Round and Mary Heeley](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_e3b9b8bd15504b69addd63b27fa14809~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_969,h_653,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_e3b9b8bd15504b69addd63b27fa14809~mv2.jpg)
at the opening of Wimbledon, June 1935
![The 1958 Wightman Cup GB team](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_920768369e5c448589c3c3e8eb0fad19~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_930,h_592,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_920768369e5c448589c3c3e8eb0fad19~mv2.jpg)
US team, on the left, GB team on the right. L-r: Alice Marble, Helen Jacobs, Mary Arnold, Dorothy May Bundy, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan, Mrs George S. Wightman (captain), Julian Myrick, Betty Nuthall, Valerie Scott, Mary Hardwick, Nina Brown, Freda Hammersley and Kay Stammers
![Teddy Tinling](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_961bb62ba9b34d89b833d11c7c3dbebb~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_966,h_683,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_961bb62ba9b34d89b833d11c7c3dbebb~mv2.jpg)
with eleven tennis stars wearing his 1966 Wimbledon styles, June 1966
![Teddy Tinling](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_467744270035406090da9efd796b0f5d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_967,h_778,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_467744270035406090da9efd796b0f5d~mv2.jpg)
with twenty-five tennis stars wearing his 1967 Wimbledon styles, June 1967
![Doubles-partners Peggy Saunders and Ermyntrude Harvey](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_d98aec719dc045e5a2150ad369fed779~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_916,h_708,al_c,q_85,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_d98aec719dc045e5a2150ad369fed779~mv2.jpg)
playing in the Wightman Cup, June 1928
![The 1958 Wightman Cup GB team](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_ab7cc447da5b4f169b6c611181414795~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_738,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_ab7cc447da5b4f169b6c611181414795~mv2.jpg)
Ann Shilcock, Christine Truman, Shirley Bloomer, Mrs Mary Halford, Ann Haydon and Pat Ward
![Eileen Bennett](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/629f6b_6314e7dcb07a480facc1ba3300ccc11b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_980,h_693,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/629f6b_6314e7dcb07a480facc1ba3300ccc11b~mv2.jpg)
playing against Helen Wills in the Wightman Cup, Wimbledon, c.1928