Tennis Library Sources

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Tennis Library Sources includes primary source and secondary source materials we have and use in compiling this website these are listed below.

Books & Magazines[edit]

  1. A Social History of Tennis in Britain: Lake, Robert J. (2014), Volume 5 of Routledge Research in Sports History. Routledge, UK, ISBN: 9781134445578.
  2. Ayre's Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guides, 1908 to 1938, A. Wallis Myers.
  3. Baily's Monthly Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, and Racing Register, 1860 to 1888.
  4. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, 1889 to 1926.
  5. British Lawn Tennis and Squash Magazine, 1948 to 1967, British Lawn Tennis Ltd, UK.
  6. British Sports Past and Present: Lawn Tennis. A History of Lawn Tennis up to the 1950s by J.G. Smyth. Batsford. (1953)
  7. Dunlop Lawn Tennis Almanack And Tournament Guides, G.P. Hughes, 1939 to 1958, Dunlop Sports Co. Ltd, UK
  8. Lawn Tennis and Badminton Magazine, 1906 to 1973, UK.
  9. Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad (1903) by Arthur Wallis Meyers, Charles Scribner and Sons. New York.
  10. Lawn-Tennis by James Dwight (1886). Wright & Ditson; Pastime Office, Boston & London.
  11. Lawn Tennis in America Biographical sketches of all the prominent players ... knotty points, and all the latest rules and directions governing handicaps, umpires, and rules for playing. Valentine Gill Hall (1889). New York, NY, USA: New York, D. W. Granbery & co.
  12. Lowe's Lawn Tennis Annuals and Compendia, Lowe, Sir F. Gordon, Eyre & Spottiswoode.
  13. Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. Routledge. ISBN: 9780367783907.
  14. Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annuals from 1885 to 1922, American Sports Pub. Co, USA.
  15. Sporting Gentlemen, Men’s Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar (2013) Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman. Routledge. ISBN: 9781315130187.
  16. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice, Nauright John and Parrish Charles, (2012), ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Cal, US, ISBN: 1598843001.
  17. Tennis; A Cultural History, Gillmeister Heiner, (1997), Leicester University Press, Leicester, UK.
  18. The Concise History of Tennis, (8th ed.) by Karoly Mazak (2017). ISBN:978-1549746475.
  19. The History of Professional Tennis, by Joe McCauley, Short Run Book Company, Windsor, Berkshire, England, 2003.
  20. The Pros: The Forgotten Era Of Tennis (2019) by Peter Underwood. New Chapter Press. ISBN: 978-1937559915
  21. The Tennis Book, edited by Michael Bartlett and Bob Gillen, Arbor House, New York, 1981 ISBN: 0-87795-344-9
  22. The World of Tennis Annuals, Barrett John, 1970 to 2001.
  23. Total Tennis:The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, by Bud Collins, Sport Classic Books, Toronto, Canada, ISBN: 0-9731443-4-3
  24. Wright & Ditson Officially Adopted Lawn Tennis Guides 1890 to 1920 Wright & Ditsons Publishers, Boston, Mass, USA.

Websites[edit]

  1. Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is the official site of Men's professsional tennis. https://www.atptour.com/
  2. History of the Pro Tennis Wars, by Ray Bowers, is a Website associated with the Tennis Server site. In twelve chapters, Bowers gives a very detailed account of the first sixteen years of professional tennis, from its modest beginnings in 1926 on through 1942. https://www.tennisserver.com/
  3. Tennis Archives run by Alex Nieuwland, is a Website thats been operating since 2008 it is extensive consisting of 57,484 player biographies; 5.252 tournaments and 34,961 editions of those tournaments (As of July 2022). It also charts tennis history from 1877, it does provide sources some detailed some brief. https://www.tennisarchives.com/
  4. International Tennis Federation (ITF), is an official website run by the governing body of world tennis. https://www.itftennis.com/en/
  5. Tennis Base is run by Gabriel Garcia, is a website thats been in operation since 2014. It has compiled a complete tennis history of men tennis since 1877 until today. with more than 800.000 matches and 27.000 tournaments. It is a pay subscription site after to you register you get one weeks free access. Also like tennis archives it does provide sources, but not detailed citations since we last accessed it. https://thetennisbase.com/
  6. Tennis Forum is an invaluable vast resource that specialises in documenting female tennis players, tennis tournaments from 1877 to today. Extremely well researched the Blast from Past sub forum is particularly notable. Forum members include tennis writers, historians and wikipedia tennis project members. https://www.tennisforum.com/.
  7. Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is an official website run by the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. https://www.wtatennis.com/
  8. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit and millions already have. Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by acting as a widely accessible and free encyclopedia that contains information on all branches of knowledge. It is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and consists of freely editable content. https://www.wikipedia.org/
  9. Wikipedia: WikiProject Tennis: is a collaborative project run by wikipedia editors (who are members of this project) with a special interest in tennis related articles, its aim is to improve and sustain consistency with tennis-related articles and to create and maintain Wikipedia's structure and information for tennis, through creation of categories, cleanup of need-to-improve articles, and assessment of individual articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tennis.

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