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Tennis

Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre

Tennis venue at Sydney Olympic Park, opened in 1999. It hosted the tennis events for the 2000 Olympics.

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Davis Cup 1909

Tennis final held in Double Bay in 1909 where Australasia defeated the United States by five rubbers to nil.

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Artarmon District Tennis Club

Tennis club.

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Greenwich Tennis Club

Community tennis club for children and adults.

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Manly lawn tennis club

Local tennis club in Manly.

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Akhurst, Daphne

Tennis champion.

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Bromwich, John

Leading doubles tennis player of 1940s and 50s.

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Crawford, Jack

Champion tennis player who won the Australian Open four times in the 1930s.

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Hoad, Lew

Tennis player who achieved World No.1 ranking in 1956 before turning professional and establishing a tennis resort in Spain.

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Hopman, Harry

Tennis player and coach who despite his early opposition to paid players, was to open a professional coaching academy in Florida.

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Quist, Adrian

Tennis player who was both a singles and doubles champion.

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Rosewall, Ken

Australian tennis player, born 1934. Held World No. 1 ranking for several years in the early 1960s and was in the Top 20 1952-1977.

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Evergreen Tennis and Squash Courts

Sporting facility at Cromer which was closed in 2016 and sold for housing.

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Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre

Tennis venue at Sydney Olympic Park, built in 1999. It hosted the tennis events at the 2000 Olympics.

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White City

Paddington amusement park designed as a white city with mountains of snow. It had Australia's biggest scenic railway and merry-go-round and closed in 1916. The White City Stadium, located at the White City Tennis Club, was built on the site in 1922. Once an iconic part of Sydney's sporting life, the property fell into disrepair and was sold by Tennis NSW in 2005.

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Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, Wimbledon 1954

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Image courtesy of the

State Library of Victoria

[H2004.100/1550]

Miss L Bickerton and Miss M Wilson, City of Sydney tennis championships 1934

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By

Sam Hood

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_00734 / Home and Away 734]

Tennis coaching school, Roseville 1953

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TITLE: Sport and recreation - Tennis - These young tennis players at a coaching school are practicing serving. This school is at Victor A Edwards' coaching school at Roseville, a Sydney suburb More than 15000 pupils, mainly school children, living within a five mile radius are enrolled [photographic image].CATEGORY: photograph FORMAT: b&w negative TYPE: cellulose acetate STATUS: preservation material
Date: 1953

Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A1200, L16241]

Tennis, White City, 16 December 1937

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By

Sam Hood

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[hood_16456 / Home and Away 16456]