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The Tennis Book 

TENNIS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION UK 

2010 

● Equipment Suppliers 

balls • rackets • apparel 

• accessories 

● Club Services 

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• indoor facilities 

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● Indoor Tennis 

manufacturers 

• contractors 

• designers 

• consultants 

● Coaching Aids 

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The TIA UK Tennis Book 2010 

How to use this book 

The Tennis Book 2010 provides a quick reference guide to the diverse range of products 

and services available from the member companies of the Tennis Industry Association UK. 

The pages of The Tennis Book 2010 are colour coded for ease of use: 

• BLUE pages give general information about the sport of tennis in the UK 

• GREEN pages group together companies providing similar products or services 

• RED pages contain product listings for players, fans, clubs and corporate clients 

• ORANGE pages contain A to Z listings of TIA UK member companies, with descriptions of 

the products and services they provide along with contact details 

• YELLOW pages contain contact details of accredited tennis racket stringers 

So whatever your start point, you can quickly find the information you need 

Editor: Henry Wancke 

Assistant Editor: Gilly English 

Photography: David Musgrove (cover) 

and Fotosports International 

Contributors: Gilly English, Barbara Wancke, 

Henry Wancke 

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Tennis Industry Association UK 


Officers & Board 

President: Ian Peacock OBE 

Honarary Vice Presidents: Peter Occleshaw 

Henry Wancke 

Executive Vice President: Barbara Wancke 

Chairman: Stephen Matthews 

Vice Chairman: Mike Ballardie 

Treasurer: Peter Risdon 

Marketing & Events Director: Richard Jones 

Executive Administrator: Gilly English 

Board Members 

Jan Booth 

Robert Fuller 

Maurice Hickman 

Sally Lockyer 

Jeremy Holt 

Dave Shaw 

Henry Wancke 

Past Presidents 

The position was first established in 2002. 

David Lloyd (2002-2007) 

Past Chairmen 

Peter Occleshaw (1998) 

Robert Porter-Smith (1999-2001) 

Henry Wancke (2002-2009) 

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Foreword 

Following the successful launch of the Tennis Industry 

Association’s Tennis Book last June, I hope you will agree 

that this second edition has maintained the levels of useful 

and interesting information established last year. 

The Tennis Book is published by the Tennis Industry 

Association UK as a service to British tennis, especially its 

members. The TIA itself has expanded significantly in the last 

12 months with over 65 member companies now 

representing virtually all the major sectors within the 

industry. 

Our aim is to provide all our member companies with a range of commercial benefits to justify 

their subscriptions. In addition to the Tennis Book, the TIA has also launched Tennis Outlook in 

newspaper format to provide a vehicle for news and features relating to the tennis industry, as 

well as TIA UK Insurance and TennisWire PR services. 

The growth of tennis in Britain remains a vital objective for all involved in the game and to that 

end the TIA is committed to working closely with the governing body. It was therefore with great 

pleasure that, together with the LTA, we were able to announce late last year, a partnership with 

the Golf Show Group to establish a three-day London Tennis Show. 

The Tennis Show runs alongside their successful London Golf Show at ExCel at the end of Aprilearly 

May and will prove an excellent way for both the industry and fans to launch the season. It 

is our hope that this will become a permanent fixture in everyone’s annual calendar. 

The Tennis Show is a consumer event with a strong trade element that will help to raise the 

profile of the sport and generate interest in the game where it matters most, from the grass roots, 

recreational level upwards, which is one of the many common goals shared by the LTA and the 

TIA. 

As mentioned, this is the second edition of the Tennis Book, which we aim to update on an 

annual basis, and if you have any ideas that you feel can improve the product, please let the 

Editor know so these may be considered before the next publication in 2011. 

I trust you have a successful season, whether as a ‘trader’, ‘player’, official or just a ‘fan’. 

Ian Peacock OBE 

President 


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Message from the LTA 

Growing the sport and winning is our priority 

for 2010 

More people playing tennis, more children involved, and 

making the sport more accessible – these are all 

fundamental to the long term prosperity of our sport. 

More than half a million adults play tennis at least once a 

week. The number is rising year on year. More children are 

competing, and more money is being invested in the grass 

roots of the sport. 

As a governing body we are investing more in places to 

play tennis – nearly £10 million a year, thanks in part to the 

support of Sport England. As well as improving the quality 

of facilities, we are supporting places to play to develop 

their programmes through Clubmark. More than 640 clubs 

have now earned Clubmark status, which means the club is providing a high quality service and great 

on court programme. A further 550 are working towards the standard with the support of our field team 

of Tennis Development Managers. 

The AEGON Schools programme has also made a real impact. Through it, the Tennis Foundation has 

introduced the sport to nearly 4,000 primary schools and given out more than 120,000 free tennis 

rackets in just over a year. 

We are also starting to see real signs of progress, in the women’s game in particular. When Anne 

Keothavong broke into the top 100 in 2008, she became the first British woman in nine years to do so. 

Since then, three other British women have broken through that barrier. That is testament to the new 

approach we have taken and all the people involved. 

The juniors also look promising, but we have to accept that a long term strategy is just that. A long 

term plan to deliver long term success for the sport. 

We are proud of the efforts of tens of thousands of coaches, parents, and volunteers, who are 

transforming the sport. With their help we are getting more people playing tennis, and enjoying the 

sport. I hope you find this directory of products and services helpful and wish you every success 

whatever your role is in tennis this coming season. 

Roger Draper 

Chief Executive 

The Lawn Tennis Association 

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The Sport of Tennis 

The biggest goal of all 

Securing a Grand Slam is the pinnacle of a player’s 

achievement and one which to date, as Henry Wancke records, 

even the great record-breaking Roger Federer has yet to realise! 

And what is the Grand Slam? It is simply winning the traditional 

four major championships in one calendar year. While a 

number of players have won all four over many years and even 

consecutively but if not in a calendar year, it is not The Grand 

Slam, it is a Career Grand Slam. 

It may sound easy but it isn’t for only five players have achieved 

that distinction in the 12 months of a year, namely Don Budge 

and Rod Laver for the men, and Maureen Connolly, Margaret 

Court and Steffi Graf for the women. 

To date they are the only players to have won the Australian 

Open, French Open, The Championships, Wimbledon and the 

US Open consecutively in a season, a feat which is considered 

one of the most difficult in the modern game, especially now 

that the four majors are played on different surfaces. 

The term was first used in tennis by John Kieran, a 

correspondent for the New York Times, who coined it in 1933 

when speculating on the chances of Australian Jack Crawford, 

that year’s winner of the Australian, French and Wimbledon 

titles going on to add the US Championships as it was known 

then. That achievement, he wrote, ‘would be something like 

scoring a grand slam on the courts’, a term he borrowed from 

the card game of bridge. Unfortunately Fred Perry got the better 

of him in the heat of that final day. 

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The massive Arthur Ashe Stadium which dominates the US 

Open at Flushing Meadows. Picture Fotosports International 

It was left to Don Budge to become the first to score a ‘Grand 

Slam on the courts’ and he did that in 1938. He was 

subsequently followed by fellow American Maureen Connolly 

who joined him by becoming the first woman to record a 

calendar Slam in 1953. 

A decade later Aussie Rod Laver scored the first of his Grand 

Slams as an amateur in 1962, a feat he was to repeat in 1968 

when the sport went Open by accepting professional players. 

With Australian tennis still very much to the fore, Margaret 

Court brought her nation a second Grand Slam within a couple 

of years by dominating the sport in 1970 and it wasn’t until 

1988 that Steffi Graf went one better than all of them with what 

is now described as a Golden Grand Slam by collecting the 

tennis Gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in the same year as 

her four majors! 

So, what makes these majors so important? They are the 

mainstay of the circuit despite all the efforts of the respective 

ATP and WTA Tours to establish events that could match them. 

While they also provide the biggest pay-cheque, it’s not all 

about money. The players know that their personal status is 

enhanced if they can include one of those major titles on the 

lists which mark their careers. 

All four of the championships are steeped in history with 

Wimbledon retaining more traditions than the other three who,

over the last half century, have embraced more overt 

commercialism. That doesn’t mean that Wimbledon hasn’t, they 

have just managed to retain more of the atmosphere of years 

gone by! 

Looking back at the four championships, Wimbledon was the 

first to establish itself in 1877, the US followed in 1881, the 

French a decade later in 1891 and the Australian at the turn of 

the century in 1905. However as far as the calendar is 

concerned, the order is very different with Australia played in 

mid-January, followed by France late May-early June and then 

Wimbledon late June-early July with the US bringing up the 

rear in late August-early September. 

Initially all four were very much national events and it wasn’t 

really until the twenties that the sport could be said to have 

become more international and start establishing themselves as 

the ones to win. 

Briefly, this is how they came to be and develop into the major 

championships they are now, namely the backbone of tennis. 

The oldest main show court of the four Grand Slams, the 

Centre Court at Wimbledon with its own sliding ‘umbrella’ 

style roof unfurled in 2009. Picture Fotosports International. 

The Championships, Wimbledon 

Wimbledon is the only one of the four to have retained its roots 

in the suburb where it was ‘conceived’ though it did have to 

move in 1922 from Worple Road to a new site virtually over the 

hill in Church Road. There it has retained the grass surface 

which the game was originally played on, and is now the only 

grand slam to have retained its surface throughout its history 

while developing a modern venue which is held in high esteem 

by players, officials and spectators. Initially The Championships 

was only open to men with the women being incorporated in 

1844 as the game grew in popularity. The only event held in 

1877 was the Gentlemen’s Singles, which was won by Spencer 

Gore, an old Harrovian rackets player, from a field of 22. About 

200 spectators paid one shilling each to watch that final. 

Interestingly the Centre Court label derives from those early 

days as the main court was located in the middle of all the 

other courts. The label for the main show court was retained 

when the club moved even though in Church Road, it no longer 

was at the centre of the activities. This was eventually corrected 

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in 1980 when four new courts were introduced on the north 

side and further emphasised when the new No1 Court was 

commissioned into use in 1997. 

In 1913 the tournament was designated ‘The World 

Championships on Grass Courts’, a term which was dropped in 

1922. 

Of the four majors, Wimbledon is the only one run by a private 

members’ club though the actual organisation of The 

Championships, is shared between the All England Lawn 

Tennis & Croquet Club and The Lawn Tennis Association who 

benefit from a 1934 financial arrangement whereby they receive 

any financial ‘surplus’ from Championships. This agreement 

was extended in 1993 with a new ‘Heads of terms’ to come into 

operation in 2013. 

The US Open 

The US Open, which we associate with Flushing Meadows, 

New York, was first held at The Casino in Newport in August 

1881 and was staged there every year until 1915 when it moved 

to the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York, for a 

three year stint. The event, then known as the US 

Championships, was restricted to members of clubs affiliated to 

the United States National Lawn Tennis Association and this 

rule applied until 1970 when it became the US Open. 

In 1921 it moved yet again for another three year period, to the 

Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia in a short lived 

attempt to rotate the event around the country. At that time 

Philadelphia was the home of the women’s championships 

which had been inaugurated in 1887. This was then switched to 

Forest Hills to fill the void left by the men! On completion of a 

new 14,000 seater stadium at Forest Hills, the men moved back 

and the two events were amalgamated in 1923. 

Like Wimbledon, the event was played on grass until 1974 

when the governing body decided to experiment with ‘Har-Tru’, 

a green clay surface. That experiment lasted just a few years 

and in 1978 was moved to the converted Louis Armstrong 

Stadium at the 1964 World Fair site at Flushing Meadows in 

the Queen’s district of New York where it has now firmly 

established itself with Decoturf hard courts replacing clay. 

Interestingly Jimmy Connors set a record by becoming the only 

player to win the US title on three different surfaces and Chris 

Evert is the only player to have won the US title on clay! The 

complex, which was named The Billie Jean King National 

Tennis Center at Corona Park - Flushing Meadows is a public 

facility when not hosting the US Open. It is also the USTA’s 

Eastern region training centre and can boast the largest tennis 

show court in the world seating 23,000, which has been named 

after Arthur Ashe. 

The French Open 

Like its American counterpart, the French when first played in 

1891 was restricted to their national players only opening its 

doors to foreign players in 1925, no doubt as a result of the

The Sport of Tennis 

The art deco Court Philippe Chatrier at Roland Garros, the 

centre piece of the French Open. Picture Fotosports 

International. 

interest generated by the Olympics played in Paris the 

previous year. Then it was renamed ‘Championnats 

Internationaux de France’ and three years later, having 

alternated between the Racing Club de France and the Stade 

Francaise, the event was established in the Roland Garros 

stadium. 

French tennis was at its height in the twenties with the likes of 

Suzanne Lenglen and the Four Musketeers, Rene Lacoste, 

Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon, winners of 

the Davis Cup in 1927. 

In recognition of that success, the site at Porte d’Auteuil was 

donated by the Stade Francaise for a suitable stadium to be 

erected for the defense of the Cup in 1928 on condition it was 

named after a well known French aviator, a member of the 

club, who was killed during the Great War. 

Over time this has become the name of the complex with the 

main stadium being renamed Court Philippe Chatrier in 1988 

in recognition of the work he had done in building up the 

credibility of the French Open as well as his work in French 

Tennis and on the international front as President of the 

International Tennis Federation. 

With its slow clay court heritage it is now viewed as one of 

the most physically demanding tennis events in the world. 

The French is also the only Grand Slam to play over 15 days 

with the Australia and the US competing over 14 and 

Wimbldon over 13. It was also the first Grand Slam to include 

an ‘open’ field in 1968 by welcoming both amateurs and 

professionals into their draws and, interestingly, between 

1945 and 1947, was held after Wimbledon! 

Originally organised by officials from both Australia and New 

Zealand, the event was first staged at the Warehouseman’s 

Cricket Ground in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, now known as 

the Albert Reserve Tennis Centre. It then travelled round 

Australia and New Zealand as follows: Sydney (17 times), 

Adelaide (14 times), Brisbane (7 times), Perth (3 times), 

Christchurch (in 1906), and Hastings (in 1912). Melbourne 

hosted it 16 times before it became the events permanent 

home in 1972 at the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club. 

In 1922 New Zealand parted company with its Australian 

counterparts. It was also the year that the event first opened 

its doors to women. 

In those early days players were reluctant to travel down 

under, bearing in mind that, in the twenties, it took 42 days to 

reach Australia by ship. It wasn’t until air travel became more 

of the norm, a firm January date was established and prize 

money levels were improved that their fields started to attract 

a more truly international field. 

The Kooyong venue also played a big part in raising the 

profile of the Australian leg of the Grand Slam but by 1988 it 

was found to be too small and the Open was moved to a 

custom made complex on Flinders Park with a very innovative 

sliding roof over the main show court. 

The move also saw the end of grass as far as Australia was 

concerned, and the introduction of Rebound Ace, a cushioned 

hard court, thereby establishing a different surface from the 

other three. The surface was eventually changed twenty years 

later to Plexicushion Prestige to help offset heat retention and 

make it more akin to the US Open’s conditions. 

As a consequence of all the improvements and faster methods 

of travel, the Australian Open, which was always perceived to 

be the weaker of the four Grand Slams, is no longer the junior 

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The Australian Open 

The youngest of the big four, the Australian was held for the 

first time in 1905 as the Australasian Championships until 

1927 when it was rebranded the Australian Championships. It 

wasn’t until 1969, the year after the sport went ‘Open’, that it 

became the Australian Open. 

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The Australian Open named their innovative main show court 

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What They Do 

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) 

Established in 1913 with agreement from 12 national 

associations, the activities of the International Lawn Tennis 

Federation were disrupted by the advent of the Great War and 

it wasn’t until 1923 that they took over the rules of the game. 

Currently 205 national associations are affiliated to the ITF 

(they dropped ‘Lawn’ from their title in 1977) and remain 

responsible for administering and regulating the game 

internationally including technical specifications for the 

court, rackets and balls as well as certification of tennis 

officials and enforcing the anti-doping programme with the 

ATP and WTA. 

In addition they administer international 

competitions like the Davis Cup, the Fed Cup, 

tennis at the Olympics and the equivalent 

events in wheelchair tennis, plus events for both seniors and 

juniors. 

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) 

To bring some clarity to the then new sport of Lawn Tennis, 

60 clubs agreed to establish a governing body for the sport 

in 1888. The group included the All England Club and 

William Renshaw, already six times Wimbledon champion, 

was elected as the first President. 

The continuous growth of the game both in Great Britain and 

around the world necessitated, in 1913, the foundation of the 

International Lawn Tennis Federation whose responsibility 

was to oversee the international aspect of the game and to 

take over the rule-making from the LTA. 

Since then the LTA has been in the business of promoting the 

sport in and around Britain. One of its first priorities (in 

1920) was to help the All England Club construct its present 

headquarters at Church Road, Wimbledon. 

Besides Wimbledon, the LTA currently supports top level 

international events at Birmingham, Queen’s, 

Eastbourne, and the O2 Arena as well as 

events at a lower level, the Pro-Series and 

the British Tour plus junior events. 

The ATP World Tour (formerly the Association of 

Tennis Professionals - ATP) 

In 1972, the leading male professionals joined forces to 

create the Association of Tennis Professional with the goal of 

changing the game for the better. 

One of the first initiatives was to establish a computer 

ranking system to analyse player performances as a means to 

determine entries to tournaments. 

This was launched in 1973. 

At the time the men’s professional game was administered by 

the Men’s Tennis Council made up of representatives from 

the ILTF, the ATP and tournament directors from around the 

world. 

This was disbanded in 1989 when the ATP decided the 

players needed to control their sport and announced their 

intentions at a press conference at the 1988 US Open in the 

car park of Flushing Meadows revealing the problems which 

existed in the professional game. One of their answers was to 

establish their own professional tour, the ATP Tour which in 

2010, is celebrating its 21 st anniversary. 

In 1997 they established the ATP Senior Tour of Champions. 

They have also been instrumental in introducing rule 

changes to enhance the fans experience like eliminating five 

set finals and replacing the third set in doubles with 

Champions Tiebreaks, as well as replacing the ad rule with a 

sudden death point on deuce. 

This year they have implemented 

tournament tiers to make it easier for the 

public to understand what points the players 

are competing for, namely ATP World Tour at 

Masters level 1000, Tour level 500 and 250. 

For the record, Grand Slam events are 2000. 

The WTA Tour (formerly the Women’s Tennis 

Association - WTA) 

In 1970, led by Billie Jean King, the women rebelled against 

officialdom and their reduced prize money levels in 

comparison to the men, by setting up the Virginia Slims Tour 

but it wasn’t until 1973 that the actual Women’s Tennis 

Association Players’ Association was established to unite all 

the women’s professional tournaments under one banner. 

This decision was reached at the Gloucester Hotel in London 

a week before Wimbledon. 

One of the association’s main objectives 

was to obtain equality in prize money 

levels with their male counterparts at the Grand Slams which 

the US Open agreed to immediately. 

In 1995 the WTA merged with the Women’s Tennis Council to 

form the WTA Tour and in 2001 the Australian Open agreed 

to equal prize money which was then matched by Roand 

Garros and Wimbledon in 2007, the year that the association 

also started experimenting with on-court coaching while 

announcing a shorter season, a more fan friendly approach 

and introducing heavier penalties for player withdrawals from 

events. 

The Tennis Industry Association UK (TIA) 

The TIA UK was founded in 1998 and its mission is to 

promote, foster and protect industry growth and vitality in the 

UK, as well as to provide commercial benefits to tennis 

businesses while supporting the LTA’s efforts to promote the 

sport at all levels. 

Members range from multi-million pound corporations to 

individual entrepreneurs, all of whom care and depend on the 

future of the game, and currently number over 

65 tennis businesses and over 135 individual 

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Tennis Industry Business Groups 

Brands & Equipment Suppliers 

Representing the major brands in the world of tennis, this 

group of companies includes distributors and 

manufacturers of tennis rackets, balls, related accessories 

such as strings and grips, clothing and shoes. 

If you need a stringer, please go to the Directory of 

Tennis Racquet Specialists on page 38. 

Amer Sports UK Ltd - Wilson 

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K S UK Limited - K-Swiss 

Milliken Woollen Speciality 

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Independent Traders 

The UK has a long-established tradition of specialist 

tennis traders who bring colour and variety to 

tournaments and provide a year-round service to tennis 

enthusiasts. 

These traders have a wealth of knowledge and experience 

and offer a wide range of tennis-related products 

including art, bespoke tenniswear, books, calendars, 

collectables, diaries, DVDs, glassware, greeting cards, 

jewellery, photographs, postcards, posters, souvenirs, 

tournament prizes and trophies. 

Tennis products are hard to find in the high street, but the 

independent tennis industry offers choice, quality, value 

and good old-fashioned customer service. 

Daniell Smith Ltd 

The Smash - James Harbridge 

Event Merchandising Ltd Teddy Tennis Ltd 

Pure Alpine Holidays The Tennis Bookshop 

Scorpion Sports Gifts The Tennis Gallery Wimbledon 

Tennis Emporium Ltd The Silver Tennis Collection Ltd 

Tennis Sports Shops 

Traditionally the sports shop in the High Street has been 

the first port of call for most tennis enthusiasts seeking 

their tennis kit. 

The advent of big retail sports chains has offered 

competitive prices for tennis equipment and in recent 

years online shopping has become the market place of 

growth. 

The TIA UK’s Tennis Racquet Specialist Scheme is a kite 

mark earned through participation by sports retailers in 

an education and certification programme that offers 

expert advice and services to the public. 

A directory of individual qualified stringers appears on 

page 36 while this group of companies includes retail 

outlets for the buying public. 

Court Equipment & Services 

This group encompasses designers, manufacturers and 

supplier contractors of tennis courts, facilities, fencing, 

canvas and signage and so on. 

Many of the companies are also members of the Sports 

and Play Construction Association (SAPCA) and comply 

to their strict codes of practice (see page 30). 

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Corporate Organisations 

These are professional organisations that provide 

specialist services to the game. 

European Racquets Stringers Association 

Sport and Play Construction Association 

tenniscoachUK (British Tennis Coaches Association) 

The Lawn Tennis Association 

The Tennis Industry Association UK 

Tennis & Fitness Clubs 

The advent of the commercial tennis club is a direct 

result of former TIA UK President, David Lloyd's vision 

over twenty years ago to create a better environment for 

players in this country. He broke the mould and laid the 

foundation for what has become a multi-billion pound 

leisure industry throughout the land. Now around a 

million people and some 20,000 workers are active in 

this area, including more than 750 tennis professionals. 

Making up this group are clubs and commercial centre 

operators, including: 

David Lloyd Leisure Ltd Sutton Tennis Academy 

Next Generation Club, Swindon The Harbour Club 

Northwood Riverside Health The Queen’s Club 

& Racquets Club (Esporta) 

ONE ROOF 

• Posters 

• Prizes 

• Programmes 

• & more … 

tion (District Line) and on-street parking 

ed hours during Wimbledon fortnight. 

ondon SW19 8AA 

tennisgallery.co.uk 

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Service Providers and Media 

There are many companies involved in providing a 

wide range of services to tennis including specialist 

consultancy advice, coaching services, design, event 

and player management, online website services as 

well as marketing and public relations services to 

name but a few. 

Publicity, news and media providers include tennis 

magazines, e-zines and websites. 

Specialist service providers include: 

Abbott Media Services 

TAB Services 

Beddington Sports Management Tennis Interlink Ltd 

Celebrity Tennis Ltd 

Tennis Today Ltd 

Fotosports International Tennishead.net 

London Tennis 

TennisLife UK Ltd 

Prestige Promotions 

The Golf Show Group 

Professional Sport UK Ltd TIA UK Insurance 

SLSP 

Trioplus Ltd 

IFMSports Marketing Surveys Ltd Will To Win Ltd 

TRS Stringers 

The TIA UK’s Tennis Racquet Specialist Scheme is a 

kite mark earned through participation by sports 

retailers in an education and certification programme 

that offers expert advice and services to the public. 

The programme is run for the TIA UK by the European 

Racquet Stringers Association and provides a 

certification system that is the universally accepted 

standard around the world. 

A directory of individual qualified stringers appears on 

page 38

User Listings 

For Players 

Looking for new rackets, balls, clothing or tennis wear? 

Want to accessorise yourself, your partner or your club? 

Fancy some coaching in the UK or abroad, or even enrolling in a new club? 

Want to get involved in some competitive events? 

The companies and services listed below are available to meet your demands. 

Accessories 

Amer Sports UK Ltd – Wilson 




Scorpion Sports Gifts 

Balls 



Dunlop 




Slazenger 

Clothing 


Babolat UK by Dinamica 


Dunlop 


Clubs 


Next Generation Club, Swindon 

Riverside Health & Racquets Club Northwood (Esporta) 

Sutton Tennis Academy 

The Harbour Club 

The Queen’s Club 

Coaching Books and DVDs 

Teddy Tennis Ltd 

The Tennis Gallery Wimbledon 

Coaching Services 

David Lloyd Leisure 


Next Generation Club Swindon 

Riverside Health & Racquet Club Northwood (Esporta) 


Tenniscoachuk (BTCA) 

Pure Alpine Holidays 




Will To Win 

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Competitions / Tournaments 



Equipment Websites 


Tennishead.net 

Exhibitions 

The Golf Show Group – The London Tennis Show 

Holidays 


Will To Win 

Mini Tennis 






Riverside Health & Racquets Club Northwood (Esporta) 




Rackets 



Dunlop 



Slazenger 

Research & Participation analysis, player profiles 

and lifestyles 

IFM Sports Marketing Surveys 

Shoes 



K S UK Ltd – K-Swiss 

Hi-Tec 


Specialist Retailers 



Tennis Emporium

The Silver Tennis Collection Ltd 


Will To Win 

Stringing, Machines and Accessories 




For Fans 

Where do you indulge your passion for Rafa, or your love of fine tennis jewellery? 

Where do you buy tennis posters for your children, or bespoke tennis clothing? 

Where do you get Wimbledon films, and Mini Tennis books? 

How do you find the best tennis magazines, and the most up-to-date tennis websites? 

Where do you buy a thoughtful and original gift for the avid tennis enthusiast? 

There is a surprising amount of choice available to the tennis consumer, and this easy to use 

section tells you which companies can meet your particular needs. 

Art 

Fotosports International 

Professional Sport 

Tennislife UK 



Books 



The Smash! 

The Tennis Bookshop 


Collectables 





DVDs 




Will To Win 

Digital Magazines 


Entertainment 



Exhibitions 


Gifts 



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Training Providers 


Websites / Networking 


TAB Services 




Greeting Cards 




Holidays 


Jewellery 




Magazines & E-Zines 



Tennis Outlook 

Tennis Today 

Photographs 


Professional Sport UK Ltd 

Posters 






Research & Tennis Statistics 


Calendars/Diaries 

The Tennis Gallery Wimbledon

User Listings 

Special Events 





Websites 





For Clubs 

Are you upgrading your club facilities? 

Do you need to improve your club’s image? 

Are you considering new tennis courts? 

Do you need help in preparing a budget / business plan for a loan or grant? 

Help is at hand from any of the companies listed below. 

Ball Machines 




Banners 

Sunbaba 

Bespoke Clothing 


Bubbles and Structures 


M3 Surveying & Construction Ltd 



Coaching Equipment 


Consultants 


Beddington Sports Management Ltd 


Tennis Interlink Ltd 

TrioPlus Ltd 


Will To Win 

Court Accessories 





Court Canvass / Windbreaks 


Sportsequip,co.uk 

Sunbaba 

Court Manufacturers 




Equipment Websites 


Exhibitions 


Fencing 





Floodlights 



Indoor Courts 






Mini Tennis 

See Tennis Equipment 

Nets & Posts 






Practice Fence / Walls 


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Prizes 





Research 


Scoreboards 





Special Events 



SLSP 


Tennis Equipment 




Dunlop 






Slazenger 


Trophies 


Wall Decoration 




Website Services 

TAB Services 




For Corporate Clients 

Tennis is an ideal sport for companies or organisations to employ in the promotion of their own 

specific business. With its worldwide appeal, and its longevity with regards to play, the sport, 

and its players both past and present, provide an attractive background for hospitality events and 

meetings. 

Banners / Screens 

Sunbaba 

Conference Facilities 


Next Generation Club, Swindon 

Northwood Riverside Health & Racquets Club (Esporta) 




Consultancy Services 





SportSense Ltd 

Sport Wins 

Entertainment 




SLSP 

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Will To Win 

Event Management 







SLSP 

Sport Wins 

Exhibitions 



SLSP 

Sunbaba 

Tennis Emporium Ltd 

Tennis Life UK 



The Tennis Gallery Wimbledon

User Listings 

Tennis Charities 

Historical Tennis Exhibitions 


Media Services 


Advantage Media Network 


SLSP 

TAB Services 





TennisWire Network 


Photography 



Other Specialities 


SportSense Ltd 

Sunbaba 

TAB Services 





TIA UK Insurance 

TrioPlus Ltd 

Research 


Tennis life UK 


TrioPlus 

Speakers & Q&As 


Sponsorship Evaluation 


The Tennis Foundation is the largest tennis charity in the 

UK. Its “One Game All” philosophy is to encourage more people 

of all ages and abilities to play and enjoy tennis. 

In particular the Foundation wants to improve tennis delivery in 

all Local Authority facilities; that includes Parks, Schools and 

municipal facilities. The Foundation’s long term strategy will 

introduce millions of new players to the game, and allow them 

to play and enjoy tennis on a regular basis. 

The Foundation works alongside the Lawn Tennis Association 

and is based at the National Tennis Centre. 

Contact details: The Tennis Foundation, The National Tennis 

Centre, 100 Priory Lane, Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ 

Charity No. 298175 

Email info@tennisfoundation.org.uk 

www.tennisfoundation.org.uk 

The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust was set up over 10 years 

ago to raise funds for people with disabilities and in early 2010 

attained its own charitable status. The Trust raises funds to help 

people with disabilities to play tennis primarily, but not 

exclusively, in the following areas – wheelchair, deaf, learning 

disabilities and visually impaired. 

The Trust provides grants to assist with the purchase of 

specialist tennis wheelchairs; the provision of equipment/ 

coaching bags and assistance to groups, associations, club 

programmes and individuals for any disability. The annual target 

for fundraising is £50K to spend on grant aid. 

The Trust continues to work closely with The Tennis Foundation 

to support its disability programme. 

Contact details: The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust, c/o Sport 

Wins, PO Box 238, Tadworth KT20 5WT 

Charity No. 1133589 

Email danmaskell@sportwins.co.uk 

www.danmaskelltennistrust.org.uk 

Also working with the Tennis Foundation is the “Give it Your 

Max” Tennis Initiative (GIYM) formed after the death of 

young tennis player Max Stotesbury. GIYM supports the 

Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative, the Tennis Foundation and 

The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust. 

Contact details: Michael or Tara Stotesbury 

5 Lancaster Gardens, Wimbledon SW19 5DG 

Tel: 020 8946 4459 Fax: 020 8947 7512 

www.giveityourmax.org 

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Other organizations include: 

Tennis for Free whose mission statement is to increase 

participation in tennis nationwide for all ages regardless of 

ability, background, race and financial circumstance. The 

organization aims to make more use of public courts. 

Contact details: Tennis for Free, 55 Thornhill Square, 

London N1 1BE 

Tel: 0870 011 3733 

www.tennisforfree.com

CopriSystems covering 

systems are available in 

spans ranging from 12m to 

36m with unlimited length 

in either fixed or telescopic 

versions. 

These tough, durable 

structures are ideally suitable 

for tennis courts, swimming 

pools, five a side football, 

horse riding and many 

other uses. 

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Offers excellent value for money 

whilst providing complete 

environmental protection. 

Full length sliding side curtains 

provide maximum ventilation. 

End curtains also available. 

Multiple courts can be housed in 

either a single 36m span or in 

individual domes with full length 

interconnection. 

Custom manufactured and 

engineered for strength and 

durability in high-tensile steel. 

Translucent properties of roof 

material allows natural light to 

permeate through, thus reducing 

electricity costs. 

Culfordʼs new Indoor Tennis Centre, built by 

Copri Systems and officially opened on 

5 May 2009 by Greg Rusedski. 

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Directory of TIA UK Members 

The A-Z of the tennis industry in the UK 

For details on joining the TIA UK, the only trade association 

soley for tennis businesses, please see page 46. 


Cedar Lodge, Howe Road, Watlington, 

OX49 5ER 

Tel 01491 612042 

Contact Henry Wancke 

AMS has provided a specialist editorial service which has 

included over the last 41 years, the editorship of Tennis 

World, Serve & Volley and Tennis Today magazines in 

addition to coverage of events for the Press Association, the 

Daily Telegraph, British Tennis magazine and the Wimbledon 

Website. 

Currently editing the FortyFiver on behalf of the 45 Club and 

Tennis Outlook for the Tennis Industry Association UK as well 

as producing the Members’ Handbook for the Lawn Tennis 

Writers’ Association. 

AMS has also been involved in establishing tennis events, the 

most successful being the Family Championships in 

association with Remington (1984-1992) and the Champion 

of Champions event for clubs with C&A. The former event 

was revived in 2007. 

Advantage Media Network 

Barry House, 20-22 Worple Road, 

London SW19 4DH 

Phone 020 8947 0100 

Email bmarrison@advantagemedianet.com 

Web; advantagemedianet.com 

Contact: Bridget Marrison 

AMN is the UK’s leading tennis content agency. In addition to 

producing multimedia brand, tennishead, AMN provides a 

range of media services for third parties 

Services Provided: AMN provides publishing services to a 

range of sporting businesses. Services include the production 

of creative content for all media platforms: Bespoke 

photography and video services: Design and production of 

promotional material: Website design, build and management; 

Digital Magazine and brochure production. 

including the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, 

Crystal Palace Athletics Stadium, Loughborough University, 

Harrow School and the Wentworth Golf Course Estate. 

Product Range: Design and construction of sports facilities 

including athletic tracks and support facilities, synthetic 

pitches, tennis courts, MUGA, cricket facilities and bowling 

greens. 

Services Provided: Design, construction, maintenance and 

renovation of sports facilities. 


Theta Building, Lyon Way, Frimley, 

Surrey GU16 7ER 

Phone 01276 404 800 

Fax 01276 40 4801 

Email stuart.preece@amersports.com 

Website www.wilson.com 

Contact Stuart Preece 

At the heart of sports history for almost a century, no other 

company has been as influential and intimately involved in 

shaping the games of tennis, golf, baseball and American 

football as Wilson. 

As the originator of breakthrough technologies, Wilson has 

produced legendary classics and earned world-wide 

legitimacy in each sport it participates in, particularly tennis. 

Backed by generations of athletes, Wilson is now owned by 

Amer Sports, the world’s leading sports equipment company. 

Listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki since 1977, 

Amer Sports Corporation had a turnover of 1.7 billion Euros 

and a market capitalization of 1.3 billion Euros in 2007 and, at 

the end of the year, the company employed 6,465 people 

worldwide. 

The business is based on strong global brands, trusted by 

consumers world-wide, including: 

Salomon - the mountain sports company 

Wilson - the authentic ball sports brand 

Precor - the global fitness equipment leader 

Atomic - the leading manufacturer of alpine skis 

Suunto - the leading manufacturer of sports instruments 

Mavic - the leading cycling systems brand 

Arc’teryx - the most progressive outdoor gear 


Unit 40, Blue Chalet Industrial Estate, 

London Road, West Kingsdown, 

Kent TN15 6BQ 

Phone: 0844 448 4370 

Fax: 0844 448 4371 

Email: info@ambsports.com 

Web: www.ambsports.com 

Contact: Bruce Hannan 

AMB Sports is an established company employing highly 

motivated and skilled staff with over 50 years combined 

experiences in the design and construction of sports facilities. 

Its client portfolio contains many prestigious facilities 

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Unit 1 Forest Close, 

Ebblake Industrial Estate, Verwood, Dorset BH31 6DE 

Phone 01202 812 000 

Fax 01202 827 040 

Email jeremyholt@apolloleisure.co.uk 

Website www.apolloleisure.co.uk 

Contact Jeremy Holt 

Apollo Leisure has been the UK’s leading supplier of racket 

sports accessories and equipment for over 25 years selling to 

retailers, club shops and professional coaches. 

It distributes a wide range racket strings, grips, accessories 

and other racket sport related products.

The company is proud to be associated with many of the 

leading brand names in racket sports and is the exclusive 

distributor for Prince, Head and Gamma racket 

accessories in the UK. 


UK by Dinamica Marketforce Ltd, 

Unit 2a, The quadrant courtyard, 

Quadrantway, 

Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 8DT 

Phone 01932 844344 

Email fdebeauvais@babolat.com 

Web www.babolat.com 

Tennis Equipment Supplier. 

Product Range: Tennis and Badminton rackets, strings/grips 

and accessories, tennis balls, footwear, apparel, stringing 

machines. 

Beddington Sports Management 

Old School House, Hook End, 

Checkendon, Oxon RG8 0UL 

Phone: 07770 860033 

Email: jrbeddington@btinternet.com 

Contact: John Beddington, Chairman 

John Beddington’s credentials in professional tennis are 

extensive and include management of the Grand Prix circuit in 

Europe and the end of year Grand Prix Masters 

Championships; directorship of Tennis Canada’s operations 

for 17 years, a period in which he elevated both the men’s and 

women’s Canadian Opens in Toronto 

and Montreal to The Super 9 [Masters/1000 Series] and Tier I 

status respectively. 

He co-founded and promoted what is now the AEGON 

Masters Tennis event at the Royal Albert Hall for ten years. He 

now acts primarily as a consultant for corporations wishing to 

maximise their involvement in tennis or tennis properties 

needing commercial or managerial support. 

Services Provided: Sports Management – consultant, 

promoter, manager 

Celebrity Tennis Limited 

48 Braeside, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1SU 

Phone: 020 8672 8131 (Direct) / 

020 8249 3366 (Office) 

Fax 020 8249 5669 

Mobile: 07967 499 587 

Email prisdon@btinternet.com and 

celebten@celebritytennis.co.uk 

Web www.celebritytennis.co.uk 

Contact: Peter Risdon, Chairman 

Celebrity Tennis is a group of world famous tennis players 

who bring a fresh approach to corporate entertainment and 

club events by making these activities a little different, more 

exciting and, in fact... unique! 

The player partners include Jeremy Bates, Pat Cash, Andrew 

Castle, Annabel Croft, Jo Durie, Peter Fleming, John Lloyd, 

Peter McNamara and Virginia Wade, but the company also 

works with many other legendary senior personalities from 

around the world. 

Celebrity Tennis can arrange for tennis fantasies to come true 

by finding the right location, helping to set an appropriate 

budget and even managing the event if required. 

It offers a cost-effective and tailor-made way to arrange 

personal appearance by the legends of the game and enhance 

most marketing efforts. 


Broughton Down, Nether Wallop, 

Stockbridge, Hampshire SO20 8DS 

Phone: 01794 301 000 

Fax: 01794 301 342 

Email: info@coprisystems.com 

Website: www.coprisystems.com 

Contact: Vanessa Holmes, Office Manager 

UK specialists in covering technology for warehousing, 

logistics, sports and leisure applications and many other 

applications, CopriSystems supplies and erects a wide range 

of static, folding and telescopic canopies, domes and tunnel 

systems for use by many leading UK companies in a wide 

variety of industrial, commercial, sports and leisure activities. 

CopriSystems covering systems are ideal for tennis courts, 

swimming pools, five-a-side football, horse riding and many 

other uses. 

CopriSystems’ technical expertise, design flexibility, 

manufacturing excellence and responsive service have made it 

a leader in its field, with few other companies in Europe 

offering such a wide range of services. 

The company’s extensive knowledge and experience of 

lightweight industrial buildings - loading bay canopies, 

warehousing, dockshelters and sports and leisure halls - 

underpins an unrivalled capability to provide an individual 

solution to every project - and ensure that its design and 

installation meets the exacting specification required by each 

client. 

For tennis courts, fixed or telescopic covers are available in 

spans ranging from 12m to 40m with unlimited length; each 

system custom manufactured and engineered for strength and 

durability in high-tensile steel, hot dip galvanised for 

corrosion protection. 

The cover is manufactured from abrasion resistant, self 

extinguishing PVC-coated polyester fabric of 900g/m 2 tested 

to BS 5438. Engineered in one piece, the cover is maintained 

in tension, giving a combination of strength, durability and 

good looks. The cover’s translucent properties allow natural 

light to permeate through. 

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Email daniellsmithltd@aol.com 

Phone 01689 854259 

Mobile 07941 236712 

Email DaniellSmithLtd@aol.com 

Contact Frank Daniell 

Daniell Smith specialise in the design of bright 

new eye-catching tennis logos and tennis apparel. 

Whether one is a recreational participant, or with aspirations 

of greater achievements, we have tennis tops for everyone. 

These are innovative, exclusive logos available on babies’ 

bibs and T-shirts, through to teenagers and more mature 

adults offering a wide choice of polos and warm-up tops – the 

choice is yours! 

All merchandise is manufactured on the very best fabrics to 

give the wearer ‘the feel good factor’. Take a look at the 

selection of accessories – sweat bands, socks, multi-coloured 

laces, tennis ball key-rings, jumbo novelty inflatable tennis 

balls (which are great for the avid autograph hunter) and even 

greetings cards. 

Don’t follow the crowd – be a leader – wear your garments 

with pride – buy from Daniell Smith. 

Product Range: Innovative tennis logos and tennis wear, 

produced on high quality fabrics and a wide range of 

accessories 


Mosquito Way, Hatfield Business Park, 

Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AX 

Phone 01707 283 500 

Web www.davidlloyd.co.uk 

Contact Steven Matthews, Sales & Operations Director 

The David Lloyd Leisure Group operates 78 clubs in the UK 

and a further 10 sites across Europe. The Group, which is 

now Europe’s largest rackets, health and fitness operator, was 

formed on the 1st January 2008 following the acquisition of 

David Lloyd Leisure Ltd by London & Regional Properties, 

owners of Next Generation Clubs. 

The group now incorporates 75 David Lloyd Leisure Clubs, 1 

Next Generation Club and 2 Harbour Clubs in the UK. 

There are also 10 sites in Europe including clubs in 

Amsterdam, Brussels, Barcelona and Dublin. 

The combination of these leading brands in rackets, health 

and fitness, has created an extensive portfolio of family 

orientated clubs with unrivalled facilities and service levels for 

our members. 

David Lloyd Leisure has over 450,000 members and employs 

some 6000 people; including an expert health & fitness team 

of over 750 and more than 350 tennis professionals. 

Across all clubs, David Lloyd Leisure has 12,500 exercise 

machines, over 150 swimming pools (of which half are 

indoor) and offers over 10,000 exercise classes per week. 

Our rackets facilities are unparalleled with 700 tennis courts 

(over half of which are indoor), as well as 180 badminton 

courts and 140 squash courts. Additional facilities include 

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health & beauty spas, club lounges with free internet access, 

crèches, nurseries and specialist sports shops to name a few. 

Dunlop Slazenger International Ltd 

Meadow Lane, Shirebrook, Mansfield, 

Nottinghamshire, NG20 8RY 

Phone: 0870 838 7310 

Web www.dunlopsport.com and www.slazenger.com 

Tennis equipment and sports goods manufacturer 

Edwards Sport Products Ltd 

Unit 8-9 Hounsell Building, North Mills, 

Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3BE 

Phone: 01308 424 111 

Email sales@edsports.co.uk 

Web www.edsports.co.uk 

Contact Archie Barclay 

Founded in 1884 Edwards is the longest established 

manufacturer of sports equipment in the U.K. Over the course 

of its 126 year history Edwards has developed a pre-eminent 

position as the leading supplier of tennis court equipment. 

Edwards manufactures and supplies a comprehensive range 

of tennis nets, posts, umpires chairs, court surround screens 

and accessories to the tennis industry worldwide. 

Each year television images of Edwards’s quality equipment 

are beamed worldwide during the annual Wimbledon 

Championships. Edwards is contracted each year to supply 

Slazenger with equipment for the Championships. Recently 

Edwards added Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to an evergrowing 

roster of prestigious venues where the company’s 

equipment has been used and the 2010 Commonwealth 

Games in New Delhi will also feature the British 

manufacturer’s nets and posts. 

Edwards is also the preferred supplier to all of the major 

indoor court providers in the U.K. 

In addition to tennis equipment Edwards also manufacture a 

comprehensive range of football, rugby, hockey and cricket 

products. Edwards’s football equipment is in use at the 

majority of the Premiership training grounds. Edwards is also 

a member of SAPCA and also manufactures a full range of 

equipment for use on synthetic pitches. 

Product Range: Tennis nets, posts, single-sticks, 

scoreboards, umpires chairs, measuring sticks, windbreaks, 

teaching carts, winders, surround nets, divider nets and 

screens. A range of flame retardant nets and screens is also 

offered for indoor venues. 

Services Provided: Installation service for indoor courts; 

backdrop screens, cross-court divisional nets, viewing gallery 

protection netting and column protection padding. An 

installation service for outdoor windbreaks and cross-court 

divisional nets. A printing service for customizing windbreaks 

is also available.

European Racquet Stringers Association (ERSA) 

Lenaustr.38, 40470 Dusseldorf, 

Germany 

Phone: 0049 211 87511548 

Email: mmaslo3330@aol.com 

Web www.ersa-stringers.com 

The ERSA offers membership to racket sports manufacturers, 

shops, stringers and coaches. Information is supplied through 

RacquetTech magazine, The Stringers Digest, ersastringers.com 

and ERSA e-newsletters. Workshops are offered 

along with internationally accredited certification. 


The Barn, Swanbourne, Bucks 

UK MK17 0SL 

Phone 01296 720773 

Email info@fotosports.com 

Web www.fotosports.com 

Contact Roger Parker 

Fotosports International was founded in 1968 - making it one 

of the oldest sports picture agencies - and has been covering 

top class international and domestic sport ever since. 

We continue to supply “live” and archive images to national 

and international newspapers, magazines and television and 

our Worldwide partners via subscription downloads from our 

website and “live” e-mail or ftp push during play. 

We have covered every World Cup soccer finals since 1970 

and European Soccer Championships since 1984. 

Use our online image bank search facility now to browse 

350,000 of our current and “archive” soccer, tennis and 

Formula One images from a total archive of over 500,000 

pictures featuring Soccer - Tennis - Golf - NFL - American 

Football - Athletics - Motor Sport - Rugby - Cricket etc. 


Pinbush Road, Lowestoft, 

Suffolk NR33 7NL 

Phone 01502 583 515 

Fax 01502 582 456 

Email les@harrod.uk.com 

Web www.harrod.uk.com 

Contact Leslie Saunders, Sales & Marketing Director 

Harrod UK is the UK’s leading sports ground equipment and 

netting manufacturer. Based in Suffolk. it produces nets and 

posts for tennis as well as equipment for other sports and was 

the Official Supplier of Sports Equipment to the Manchester 

2002 Commonwealth Games. 

The company has supplied equipment to such venues as the 

Millennium Stadium, Wembley Stadium, The National Hockey 

Stadium, the National Badminton Centre and a host of 

Premier League Clubs. 

HEAD UK Ltd 

2 Beezon Road, Kendal, 

Cumbria LA9 6BW 

Phone 01539 724740 

Email info@uk.head.com 

Website www.head.com 

Contact Dave Shaw 

The company’s brand portfolio includes HEAD winter (ski and 

boots, snowboard equipment), Tyrolia (ski bindings) HEAD 

Racketsports (tennis, squash and badminton equipment), 

HEAD/Penn (tennis balls and racquetball balls) and Mares 

(diving equipment). 

Over the last 50 years, HEAD has earned a reputation as a 

leader in developing innovative, high quality and 

technologically advanced sporting equipment, which it 

typically sells to middle and high price points in the market. 

Its products are sold throughout 30,000 accounts in over 80 

countries, targeting sports enthusiasts of varying levels of 

ability and interest ranging from the novice to the professional 

athlete. Most of its sales are in Europe, United States and 

Japan, with Europe being HEAD’s largest market. 

Hi-Tec Sports UK Ltd 

Aviation Way, Southend-on-Sea, 

Essex SS2 6GH 

Phone: 01702 541 741 

Fax: 01702 547 947 

Email: post@hi-tecsports.com 

Website: http://www.hi-tec.com/ 

Contact: Joe Holland, UK Court Manager 

HI-TEC builds instantly comfortable lightweight footwear for 

the outdoors, golf, and court sport activities. 

Why? Because leisure time is too precious to walk around 

feeling uncomfortable in your shoes. 

Founded in 1974 in the appropriately named village of 

Shoeburyness, in Essex, England, HI-TEC’s squash shoe 

established the benchmark in athletic footwear and the model 

remains Britain’s all time best selling sports shoe model to 

this day. 

The HI-TEC brand was globally launched in 1982 and became 

a casebook study at the Harvard Business School. 

Today there are over 500 HI-TEC styles commercialised 

throughout 80 countries world-wide, under the Hi-Tec 

Outdoor, Hi-Tec Court, Hi-Tec Golf, Hi-Tec Sport, Urban 

collections and Magnum brands for sports and footwear 

enthusiasts. 

Hi-Tec has a rich heritage in tennis with many top players 

having worn the brand including Henri Leconte and Annabel 

Croft. Hi-Tec was also the Official Shoe of The 

Championships, Wimbledon for 8 years. 

The company currently employs approximately 500 

employees and generates global sales of more than US $250 

million. 

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The Courtyard, Wisley, Surrey, GU23 6QL 

Phone 01932 350 600 

Email tonys@sportsmarketingsurveys.com 

Web www.sportsmarketingsurveys.com 

Contact Tony Scott 

IFM Sports Marketing Surveys is the world’s No1 and largest 

sports and sponsorship research agency with over 25 years 

experience in the sports industry and offices in 20 markets 

represented on every Continent. 

Working in tennis for this period undertaking spectator 

research, sponsorship evaluation, tennis participation studies, 

market size and shipment reports, equipment usage census, 

retailer attitudes and performance analysis, IFM Sports 

Marketing Surveys understands how tennis and sport impacts 

on all aspects of a person’s life. 

Working with tennis clients ranging from the ITF, ATP and 

WTA Tours, to events such as The Championships at 

Wimbledon, national and local sponsors, equipment 

manufacturers from Babolat to Yonex, and working closely 

with the USTIA, the TIA(UK), Tennis Europe and National 

Federations. We understand tennis and deliver objective and 

independent research in all areas to help our clients make 

better business decisions and improve their profits. 

Contact us to find out how we can help you achieve your 

tennis targets, including: 

- European Tennis participation & lifestyle reports 

- European Speciality Tennis Retail analysis 

- European Market Shipment reports 

- Sponsorship Evaluation studies 

- Tennis Consumer studies 

- Tennis brand image consultancy 

Services Provided: Full market research and sponsorship 

research services including: 

- Syndicated research 

- Bespoke studies & tailor-made research 

- Tennis & sponsorship publications 

- Sport & Sponsorship consultancy 

1st Service Tennis Limited 

18 Derwent Avenue Kingston Vale 

London SW15 2RD 

Phone 020 2548 8006 

Email Paul@1stservicetennis.com 

1st Service Tennis Limited is a company that provides 

coaching services and managing facilities 


Frenchmans Road, Petersfield, 

Hants GU32 3AP 

Phone 01730 237 129 

Fax 01730 264 915 

Email mhickman@jbcorrie.co.uk 

Website www.jbcorrie.co.uk 

Contact Maurice Hickman, Sales & Marketing Director 

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J.B.Corrie is one of the leading manufacturers of Tennis Court 

and Sports Fencing in the U.K. 

Corrie manufacture Tubular Tennis Court surrounds as well as 

traditional Angle Iron surrounds for supply to most of the 

major Tennis Court Contractors in the U.K. 

The Company moved to its current site in 1946, where it now 

employs over 100 staff engaged in the manufacture and 

installation of all different kinds of perimeter fencing and 

gates. 

Corrie also manufacture and install the ServeAce Tennis 

Practice Fence. 


Quarry Hill Works, Box, 

Wiltshire SN13 8LH 

Phone 01225 742 141 

Fax 01225 743 237 

Email: tennisquash@pricebathltd.freeserve.co.uk 

Web www.jpricebath.co.uk 

Contact Derek Price, Managing Director 

For over 60 years, Price of Bath have been manufacturing 

tennis and squash balls and supplying most, if not all, 

international racket companies at some time. 

In fact, the company is the only independent developer and 

manufacturer of tennis balls in Britain today and the only UK 

ball maker producing mini tennis balls developed for the 

Lawn Tennis Association. Also make tennis ball key rings 


PO Box 188, Knaphill, Woking, 

Surrey GU21 2HQ 

Phone 01482 797 030 

Fax 01483 487 040 

Email keith.sohl@btinternet.com 

Contact Keith Sohl, Managing Director 

Junior Tennis Centres Ltd is the developer of the Sutton 

Junior Tennis Centre, the country’s first and only indoor junior 

tennis centre, which opened in 1991. 

A joint venture between London Borough of Sutton and Junior 

Tennis Centres Limited, Sutton Junior Tennis Centre has 

become the UK’s leading tennis centre for the development of 

junior performance players and grass-roots tennis. 

The company also provides a consultancy service to IBM and 

the All England Lawn Tennis Club. 

K S UK Ltd (K-Swiss) 

Tannery House, 4 Middle Leigh, 

Street, Somerset BA16 0LA 

Phone 01458 449 301 

Fax 01458 446 536 

Email srobins@k-swiss.co.uk 

Web http://www.k-swiss.co.uk 

Contact Sarah Robins 

K-Swiss designs, develops and markets high performance

and recreational footwear and apparel, which is distributed in 

the UK by K S UK limited. 

Founded by two Swiss brothers in 1966 in California, K-Swiss 

is now sold in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, 

Australia, New Zealand as well as Central and South America. 

London Tennis Ltd 

13 King Charles Walk, 

London SW19 6JA 

Phone 020 8789 0482 

Email paul@londontennis.co.uk 

Web www.londontennis.co.uk 

Contact Paul Barton 

London Tennis is a web based network of London tennis players 

and provider of leagues and competitions for adult players. 

The company stages competitions such as leagues and an 

annual Knock-out tournament. 

London Tennis is for tennis players of all standards who just 

want to get out and play. Use the site for free to find partners, 

find courts, and record scores to receive a site ranking which 

assists in finding players of a similar standard. 

Whether playing ‘friendlies’ or taking part in box leagues and 

knockout tournaments, this unique website is a popular 

networking hub for London’s tennis players. 

There are four league seasons per year, each lasting 

approximately twelve weeks and costing £15 each to enter. 

Results of all league matches between LTA members are sent 

to the LTA and contribute to their national LTA ranking as well 

as their London Tennis ranking. 

4,129 matches have been recorded between London Tennis 

members at 206 different venues across London. 


59 Ash Tree Road, Southampton, 

Hampshire SO18 1LY 

Phone 07977 567 305 

Fax 023 8058 1888 

Email marklilley@m3construction.co.uk 

Contact Mark Lilley, Director 

M3 Construction specialises in the design, construction and 

refurbishment of tennis courts and other sports facilities. We 

are able to advise on all aspects of the construction of tennis 

courts such as surface, floodlighting and fencing. 

The company is run by Mark Lilley (BEng), a Civil Engineer, 

who is also a keen tennis player when time allows. 

Product Range: tennis courts; synthetic and natural turf 

pitches; athletics tracks; multi-use games areas; cricket 

facilities; bowling greens; and petanque rinks. 

Services Provided: design, construction, refurbishment 

and maintenance of outdoor sports facilities 


8a Holly Court, Holly Farm Business Park, 

Honiley, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV3 1NP 

Phone 01926 484 530 

Email kallan@midlandcsb.co.uk 

Web www.midlandcsb.co.uk 

Contact Ken Allan 

MCSB is a growing Warwickshire based company working 

throughout the UK. Primarily involved with the construction, 

refurbishment and maintenance of multi-use sports areas and 

civil engineering works. Principal contractor member of 

SAPCA. 

Product Range: Synthetic sports surfaces to include 

tarmacadam, for use with tennis, football, hockey, netball and 

rugby. 

Services Provided: Construction of multi-use games areas 

and to include additional sporting facilities and general civil 

engineering works. 

Milliken Woollen Speciality Products 

Lodgemore Mills, Stroud, 

Gloucestershire GL5 3EJ 

Phone 01453 764 456 

Fax 01453 752 919 

Email Duncan.Kettell@milliken.com 

Web www.milliken-wsp.com 

Contact Duncan Kettell, Marketing Director 

Tennis ball cloth or melton has been manufactured at our factory 

in the West of England since the early 20th century, originally 

under the Playne’s name that’s still recognised today. 

Nearly 100 years of tradition and highly sophisticated 

manufacturing techniques have been combined to produce a 

superior performing product, which is now the choice of all the 

leading manufacturers and brands in the tennis industry. 

Our resume includes Dunlop Fort, Slazenger Wimbledon, Head 

ATP, Tretorn, Tecnifibre, Wilson Tour and the Wilson US Open 

tennis ball brands. 

Playne’s tennis cloth by Milliken is selected for three grand slam 

tournaments; Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian 

Open, and many other major tournaments around the world. 


Kembrey Park, Kembrey Street, 

Swindon SN2 8LY 

Phone 020 7751 9443 

Web www.redefineyourself.co.uk 

With some of the best sports, fitness and leisure facilities in 

Europe, you’ll find the Next Generation feels like your family’s 

home from home. Come and take a dip in our fabulous indoor 

or outdoor pool, play on our superb tennis courts and work 

out in our state-of-the-art gym. Then spoil yourself in our 

luxurious Spa. Or, just sit back and enjoy a drink and meal in 

our restaurant and bar and then unwind on our terrace 

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Churchill House, 107 High Street, 

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, HP4 2DG 

Phone: 01442 879000 

Fax: 01442 870999 

Email: sales@prestigepromotions.co.uk 

Website : http://www.prestige-promotions.co.uk/ 

Contact: Clive B Thomas, Chairman 

Clive B Thomas founded Prestige Promotions in 1976 to cater 

for creative hospitality concepts and they have been turning 

events into occasions ever since. 

A former tennis writer and player, Clive loves the game and 

relishes every opportunity to focus his company’s talents 

around the sport whenever possible. 

With the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals arriving in at 

London’s O2 Arena, Prestige Promotions now has a flagship 

venue for its corporate hospitality outlet. 

Prestige Promotions offers to turn corporate and personal 

events into that special occasion and can do so in a myriad of 

different ways, including hosting at the traditional English 

Season, in sport or at the theatre, concerts and gigs. 

The company also has a unique Royal connection and can 

arrange private occasions at Buckingham Palace, Royal Yacht 

Britannia, Windsor Castle, The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham 

Palace and Clarence House. 

For tailor-made parties, incentives, and weekends away, 

contact Prestige Promotions now or visit their website. 


Thames House, 116 High Street, 

Hampton Hill, Middlesex TW12 1NT 

Phone 020 8973 0310 

Email jonballardie@princesports.co.uk 

Web www.princetennis.com 

Contact Jon Ballardie 

At Prince, tennis is really all we think about – because it is all 

we do. Therefore we are always putting the tennis player first. 

Since its inception, this privately held company has grown to 

represent the highest quality, most visionary products and 

programs in the sport, along the way becoming one of the 

most respected, far reaching and successful brands. The 

Prince name is synonymous with tennis excellence with a 

trademark that is one of the most prestigious and well-known 

in the sporting goods industry. 

Product Range includes tennis rackets (performance, club, 

junior, play & stay); tennis balls; tennis footwear; tennis 

apparel and accessories; tennis strings, grips & racket 

accessories; racket sport bags; stringing machines; dynamic 

racket testing machines; play & stay mini-tennis; on court 

equipment & accessories. 


18/19 Shaftesbury Quay, Hertford, Herts. SG14 1SF 

Phone: 01992 505000 

Fax: 01992 505020 

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Email: pictures@prosport.co.uk 

Website: www.prosport.co.uk 

Contact: Marina Palmer 

Professional Sport is a specialist sports library. We can 

provide award-winning photographs, covering a range of over 

one hundred sports, from major international to local amateur 

events. Our photographers supply the library with highly 

creative images and also undertake commissions. We offer an 

efficient and fast service for your specific requirements. 

Images are available as transparencies or by digital 

transmission. 

Client List: Advertising, design and PR agencies, Sports 

Associations and sports sponsors. Book and magazine 

publishers. On-line services, press and TV worldwide. 

Specialities: Tennis, football and rugby. Size of library: Over a 

million images. 


PO Box 40, Hove, East Sussex 

BN3 5WL 

Phone: 01273 778006 

Email kasia@purealpineholidays.co,uk 

Web www.purealpineholidays.co.uk 

Contact Kaisa Chmielewska 

Pure Alpine Holidays specialises in tailor-made tennis, ski 

and activity holidays to Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland. 

The hand-picked resorts – Brand and Mittleberg in Austria, 

Serre Chevalier in France, Madesimo in Italy and Savognin in 

Switzerland – offer beautiful settings, excellent facilities, 

comfortable accommodation, great skiing and high-quality 

tennis tuition. 

We offer the unique concept of a ‘tennis and ski holiday’ in all 

our resorts. In the winter you can ski and play tennis on 

excellent indoor courts on the same holiday. In the summer, 

you can play tennis in stunning settings with great weather 

whilst enjoying all the benefits of a summer mountain holiday. 

Two dedicated weeks in the summer are hosted by former top 

UK and world ranked players, Julie Pullin, Lorna Woodroffe 

and Karen Cross. 

Product Range: Winter – 

Tennis & Ski Holidays – all resorts 

Tennis Holidays – all resorts 

Tailor-made ski weeks for beginners, nervous skiers, mature 

skiers, families – all resorts 

Ski & Cook holiday in Madesimo, Italy 

Summer – 

Tennis Holidays - 3 & 5 day courses - all resorts 

Tennis Camps - Austria, France & Switzerland 

Weekend Breaks - Austria, France & Switzerland 

Doubles Match Tactics Weekends - Austria & France 

Pro hosted tennis weeks 

Junior Tennis Exchange programme 

Tennis Holidays in Brighton

Sports and Play Construction Association (SAPCA) 

Federation House, Stoneleigh Park, 

Warwickshire CV8 2RF 

Phone 024 7641 6316 

Fax 024 7641 4773 

Email info@sapca.org.uk 

Web www.sapca.org.uk 

Contact Chris Trickey, Chief Executive 

SAPCA is the recognised trade organisation in the UK for the 

tennis court construction industry, and represents specialist 

builders of tennis courts, manufacturers and suppliers of 

tennis surfaces and related equipment, as well as independent 

tennis facility consultants. 

The Association plays an important role in the promotion of 

high standards for tennis and other sports facilities. 

Membership signifies professional competence and 

performance through compliance with SAPCA’s Codes of 

Practice. 


12 Burnmoor View, Ingleton, Carnforth, 

Lancs LA6 3BL 

Tel 01524 242262 

Email: jane@scorpionsportsgifts.com 

Web: www.scorpionsportsgifts.com 

Scorpion Sports Gifts is an online retailer of a wide variety of 

Tennis Gifts including tennis themed stationery items, 

notebooks, jewellery, key rings, net-checks, novelty grips and 

dampeners. We also make up party bags for retail customers 

and clubs/centres. 

We are a Trade supplier to coaches and clubs, offering 

coaches the chance to take advantage of Trade Prices on 

products to use as prizes in their coaching programmes. 

Many of our products are ideal for Mini Tennis and Club 

Tournament prizes. 

Our customer base stretches the length and breadth of the 

country and we keep our customers up to date with the 

addition of new products to our range with a regular (but not 

too regular!) newsletter. 

Product Range: Tennis themed gifts: stationery items, 

notebooks, jewellery, key rings, net-checks, novelty grips, 

dampeners, Party Bags. 

Services provided: Supply our products at trade prices to 

coaches and clubs for use as prizes in tennis coaching 

programmes, mini tennis and club tournaments. 

SLSP 

44 Hill Street, Richmond,Surrey 

TW9 1TW 

Phone 07702 124393 

Email sallylockyer@aol.com 

Website: www.SALLYLOCKYER.com 

Contact Sally Lockyer 

SLSP is a consultancy business providing marketing and 

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commercial services to the sports, music and media sectors 

in the UK and Australia. With extensive experience of major 

events (Olympics, Commonwealth Games, World 

Championships); sports brands (Nike Europe, Reebok, Kappa, 

Lotto); sponsorship (Microsoft, Virgin, Coca-Cola, 

Prudential); leisure operators (David Lloyd Leisure) and in the 

music business providing technology to some of the world’s 

largest tours (Live 8, Madonna, Il Divo, Spice Girls and 

Robbie Williams). The company is headed by Sally Lockyer, a 

Board Member of the TIA. 

Slazenger 

See Dunlop Slazenger International 

www.slazenger.com 

Sport Wins 

PO Box 238, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 5WT 

Phone: 01737 831707 

Mobile: 07904 526779 

Email: gilly@sportwins.co.uk 

Website: www.sportwins.co.uk 

Contact details Gilly English 

Sport Wins was set up specifically to organise sporting events 

and initiatives on behalf of the governing bodies and 

sponsors of sport. 

Specialising in the grass roots of sport, and offering services 

of administration and organisation for all aspects of events or 

programmes, Sport Wins has extensive experience of 

organising national and international schools events and 

development programmes on behalf of the national governing 

bodies. 

We also assist with applications for funding from government 

and other agencies and help in the organisation of fundraising 

and promotional activities. 

Sport Wins is currently contracted to raise funds and 

administer The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust, a charity which 

helps disabled people to play tennis. 

Our other major contract is providing administrative services 

to the Tennis Industry Association UK Ltd, the only official 

trade association solely for tennis businesses. 


Boyd Sport & Play Limited trading as 

sportsequip.co.uk 

The Manor, Tur Langton, 

Leicestershire LE8 0PJ 

Phone 01858 545 789 

Fax 01858 545 890 

Email sales@sportsequip.co.uk 

Web www.sportsequip.co.uk 

Contact Robert Boyd, Managing Director 

sportsequip.co.uk is Britain’s leading online supplier of tennis 

products offering a wide choice of tennis nets and posts, 

winders & handles, net straps & adjusters, ball machines, ball 

baskets, tennis court accessories and court maintenance


equipment for porous macadam, acrylic, grass, artificial 

grass, clay and shale courts. 

The company also supplies new court starter packs, moss 

killers and court maintenance products. 

Product Range: Tennis Posts, Tennis Nets, Winders & 

Handles, Net Straps & Adjusters, Ball Machines, Ball Baskets, 

New Court Starter Packs, Moss Killers, Court Maintenance 

Summit Structures Ltd. 

1-8 Enterprise Glade, Bath Yard, 

Moira, Swadlincote, 

Derbyshire DE12 6BA 

Phone: +44 (0) 1283 554120 

Email: info@summitstructures.com 

Web: www.summitstructures.com 

Contact: Keith Dexter 

Summit Structures is the foremost steel-framed, engineered 

fabric building supplier which offers design, construction, and 

project management services to clients worldwide. Summit 

Structures® buildings are manufactured by Cover-All 

Building Systems, Inc. at an ISO 9001:2000 certified 

manufacturing facility. Our state-of-the-art 170,000 square 

foot manufacturing facility is a true benchmark within the 

industry, using the most innovative systems and machinery. 

We are so confident in our products that we have established 

our manufacturing plants inside TITAN® buildings - one of 

the products for which Summit Structures is renowned. 

Summit Structures believes in excellence in every aspect of 

business and promotes an entrepreneurial spirit making 

excellence achievable. 

Product Range: Summit Structures is a provider of steelframed, 

engineered fabric buildings. Our buildings can be 

custom designed to meet your application, 5.5 m wide to 90m 

wide and to any length required. 

Services Provided: Summit Structures offers design, 

construction, and project management services to clients 

worldwide. 

Sunbaba Systems Ltd 

(Head Office) 

Sunbaba House, Dullingham, 

Newmarket, Suffolk, CB8 9XA 

Phone 01638 507684 

London Office: 

Suite 222, Legacy Business Centre, 2a Ruckholt Rd., Leyton, 

London E10 5NP 

Phone 020 8988 9100 

Email info@sunbaba.co.uk 

Web www.sunbaba.co.uk 

Contact Jan Booth, Managing Director 

Sunbaba is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of Austronet 

plain and over printed tennis windbreaks and Event Branding 

solutions. Our years of experience and a wide range of plain 

and printable materials including soft fabrics and rigid 

materials, enable us to deliver outstanding results. 

We don’t just sell branding, we offer a service with advice and 

support, right from the start of a project through to 

completion. 

Sunbaba are committed to sustainability in line with the 

principles of BS 8910 and ISO 14001 and we work closely 

with our suppliers and clients to minimise the environmental, 

social and economic impact of our products and, in turn, of 

the events where they are used. 

Product Range: Plain and Over printed Tennis Windbreaks, 

14 different Austronet fabric colours, 2 weights/air 

permeability. 

Banners and branding for Tennis Events and Tournaments. 


Rosehill Park, Sutton, Surrey 

SM1 3HH 

Phone: 0208 641 6611 

Fax: 0208 641 9676 

Email: info@suttontennisacademy.com 

Web www.suttontennisacademy.com 

Contact Helen George, Facility Manager 

Sutton Tennis Academy was the country’s first indoor junior 

tennis centre. It opened in 1991 as a joint venture between 

London borough of Sutton and Junior Tennis Centres. 19 

years on, the centre has now become the UK’s leading tennis 

centre for the development of junior performance players. 

Whilst it is London’s premier facility the academy offers a 

flexible approach to meet the training and practice 

requirements of all ages and levels of player, including 

professional, full –time, and junior performance players as 

well as beginners. We also have adult coaching programmes 

and operate a number of evening squads for beginner, 

intermediate and advanced players. 

The Centre offers excellent facilities including 11 indoor 

acrylic, 8 clay and 5 outdoor acrylic courts, a luxury health 

and fitness suit, sports injury clinic, a relaxing sports lounge, 

indoor and outdoor viewing areas, a junior gm and 

function/conference facilities. 

TAB Services 

45 Signal Road, Grantham, NG31 9BL 

Telephone: 08456 434822 

E-mail: info@tabservices.co.uk 

Web: www.tabservices.co.uk 

Contact: Ian Beswick 

TAB Services – offering sales and marketing consultancy 


Elmdene, Milton Road, Shipton-Under-Wychwood, 

Chipping Norton, West Oxfordshire OX7 6BD 

Phone 0845 643 1173 

Email stephen@teddytennis.com 

Website www.teddytennis.com 

Contact Stephen Bean 

Teddy Tennis is a new coaching method that inspires children 

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aged 3½ to 7½ to play tennis and get active. 

Teddy Tennis creatively connects to children through music, 

pictures, stories and teddy bear characters making learning 

the elementary skills of tennis exciting & fun. The lessons 

match a child’s development level with activities that cover a 

combination of movement, racket and ball skills. The 

programme works brilliantly as children just love playing 

Teddy Tennis. 

Teddy Tennis is a ‘must have’ programme for any sports or 

leisure centre because it will bring in new business 

opportunities in ‘off-peak’ times as Teddy Tennis busy periods 

are weekday mornings and afternoons, as well as at 

weekends. Once established, Teddy Tennis will generate 

between £40,000 - £120,000 incremental revenue per year 

using existing in-house resources. 

Benefits offered: Enhances the family membership offering 

of the centre. 

Provides new income source – fees from lessons (and 

membership) 

Provides new secondary income source (i.e. parents spend 

whilst waiting for classes to finish) 

Provides tertiary income source – resale of teddy Tennis 

equipment and merchandise 

Enhances perceived value of centre to families 

Optimises use of centre in off peak periods 

Sets up a feeder stream for other activities in the centre 

Can be delivered in a variety of locations inside and outside 

the centre 

Provides coaching staff with work in off peak periods 

Teddy Tennis is a structured system with detailed lesson plans 

making the task of preparation and teaching straight forward 

Does not need a tennis court, just some space, indoors or 

outdoors. 


5701 Fox Gate Lane, Midlothian, 

Virginia 23112, USA 

Phone: +1 804 484 0276 

Email: zanevans@compuserve.com 

Contact: Richard Evans, Managing Director 

The Grand Slam of shopping, Tennis Emporium brings 

together the merchandise of the ‘Big 7’ under one roof for the 

first time ever at the London Tennis Show 2010. 

Branded goods from Wimbledon, Roland Garros, Australia 

and the US Open are available to purchase alongside those of 

the ATP World Tour and the International Tennis Federation. 


48 Braeside, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1SU 

Phone: 020 8249 3366 

Fax 020 8249 5669 

Email tenlink@ntlworld.com 

Contact: Barbara Wancke, Managing Director 

Tennis Interlink is a tennis consultancy business dealing in 

most aspects of the game but particularly specialising in 

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Sport England Lottery funding and event management. 

The company is run by Barbara Wancke who has been a 

sports administrator for over 35 years with a well-proven track 

record and a wealth of experience. She was Director of 

Women’s Tennis at the ITF for 10 years, before which she held 

posts at IMG and Dunlop Sports Co Ltd. 

Tennis Interlink has already helped clubs and other 

organisations to secure over £1 million in funding for our 

sport and offers a free consultation on any project before 

quoting for its services. 


Cedar Lodge, Howe Road, 

Watlington, 

Oxfordshire, OX49 5ER 

Phone 01491 612042 

e-mail: info@tennis-today.net 

web: www.tennis-today.net 

Publishers of tennis literature and tennis related websites, 

www.tennis-today.net www.tennisclubnews.co.uk and 

www.juniortennisgb.co.uk 

Additional services include setting up of websites, public 

relations and promotions. 

Tennishead 

Barry House, 20-22 Worple Road, 

London SW19 4DH 

Phone 020 8947 0100 

Email bmarrison@tennishead.net 

Web; tennishead.net 

Contact: Bridget Marrison 

Tennishead is the leading British tennis magazine, published 

six times a year; a website and a revolutionary digital 

magazine (www.tennisheadezine.net). 

Product Range: tennishead is busting with original features, 

player interviews, expert coaching and fitness advice, the 

most comprehensive gear and travel reviews, unique photos 

and videos. All content is produced in the UK by a dynamic 

young team of content producers. 

Services Provided: tennishead runs the official websites for 

British players Anne Keothavong 

(www.annekeothavong.co.uk) and Ross Hutchins 

(www.rosshutchins.net) 


Ground Floor, Breakspear Park, 

Breakspear Way, Hemel Hempstead, 

Herts, HP2 4TZ 

Phone: 01442 345 001 

Email: diana@tennislife.com 

Web: www.tennislife.co.uk 

Tennislife UK Magazine is part of the world’s largest 

independent tennis publishing house which includes Tennislife 

US, Tennislife en espanol, Tennislife KZ (Kzakstan) and


Tennislife Ireland. Now the only tennis magazine published 9 

times a year, Tennislife offers its readers both print and digital 

subscriptions together with a website constantly updated 

throughout the Grand Slams and Masters Series. 

Tennislife distributes 25,000 copies per issue. Tennislife is 

available in WH Smith, independent newsagents and sports 

shops. It is distributed to every tennis club in the UK and 

10,000 copies are produced for, and distributed throughout, 

David Lloyd Leisure Clubs nationwide. Tennislife is the 

official magazine for the David Lloyd Leisure All Stars 

Programme. 

Tennislife offers an independent and unbiased view with 

editorial including international tour, UK Pro watch, 

instruction, health & fitness, travel, product review and more. 

Some of the world’s leading international tennis experts write 

for Tennislife including Nick Bollettieri, Joe Dinoffer, Paul 

Fein, Vince Spadea and Leif Shiras. 

TenniscoachUK (The British Coaches’ Association) 

Neville Lodge, Newbridge Crescent, 

Wolverhampton WV6 0LH 

Phone 01902 0758 500 

Fax 01902 744 435 

Email mailto: enquiries@tenniscoachuk.co.uk 

Web www.tenniscoachuk.com 

Contact Sharon Cooper 

The British Tennis Coaches’ Association (BTCA) trading as 

tenniscoachUK is a professional body for tennis coaches and 

assistants in Britain. 

It is the only independent trade association for coaches in 

Britain, i.e. we do not provide coach certification services and 

so provide impartial advice to coaches and assistants 

irrespective of their qualification or who they are working for. 

tenniscoachUK has almost 3,000 members, including many of 

the leading coaches in Britain and represents coaches with a 

wide variety of qualifications and nationalities. 

tenniscoachUK is run by an National Board and a team of staff 

based at the head office in Wolverhampton. 


330 Third Avenue, 14th Floor, 

New York, NY 10010 USA 

Phone: +1-212-682-6829 

Fax: +1-212-684-6829 

Mobile: +1-212-844-9274 

Email: lhoran@tenniswire.org 

Web: www.TennisWire.org, 

www.WorkInTennis.com, 

www.TennisPuzzles.com, 

and www.HelloTennis.com 

Contact: Liza Horan, Editor and Publisher 

TennisWire Network consists of four websites, an email 

database and social media efforts to inform international 

industry stakeholders, media and enthusiasts about tennis 

products, services and developments in the sport. Brands like 

Wilson, HEAD/Penn, Prince, USPTA and USTA Eastern use 

the super-targeted online platform to gain visibility in the 

marketplace by distributing press releases and more. Through 

a special partnership, TIA UK members qualify for special 

rates for TennisWire “Newsmaker” plans (details on 

www.tiauk.org). 

TennisWire.org provides “industry news from the sources” 

through a searchable database of press releases and company 

profiles, plus exclusive Q&A columns with tennis sponsors, 

leaders and personalities. 

WorkInTennis.com is a career center with employer profiles, 

candidate resumes, job listings, the “I Love My Job!” column, 

and a column (blog.WorkInTennis.com) written by the next 

generation of tennis industry insiders. 

HelloTennis.com is an editorial column featuring news, trends, 

happenings and insight on what’s happening in the industry. 

TennisPuzzles.com offers free tennis-themed games for online 

and offline play. Tennis fans can test their knowledge with our 

Grand Slam editions of crossword, wordoku and wordsearch. 

Sponsorship is available and included custom-tailored 

themes to promote your tennis business. 

TennisWire Bulletin is a monthly email newsletter providing 

news, features, research and opportunities for those who work 

in the sport or are consumed by it as a fan or player. The 

focus is tennis’ growth through business and recreational 

participation. 

TennisWire Media Alert is a weekly email newsletter to verified 

journalists and editors who cover tennis and sports. Each 

Monday it carries top headlines from TennisWire 

“Newsmakers,” media event details, story ideas and more. 

Twitter.com/TennisWire is a stream of postings on news and 

items of interest for those covering, watching or working in 

the game. 

Facebook page and “TennisWire Friends” group: Staying 

connected to you and your audience of industry insiders, 

media and tennis enthusiasts. 

The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust 

c/o Sport Wins, PO Box 238, Tadworth, KT20 5WT 

Tel 01737 831707 

Email: danmaskell@sportwins.co.uk 

Website: www.danmaskelltennistrust.org.uk 

Contact: Gilly English, Fundraiser/Administrator 

The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust was set up as part of the Tennis 

Foundation’s commitment to make tennis accessible to 

everyone. The Trust has recently acquired its own charitable 

status and is now an independent charity. 

Its aims are to raise money to help disabled people to play 

tennis in three main areas:- wheelchair tennis, deaf tennis and 

tennis for people with learning disabilities. 

The Trust is named after the late Dan Maskell, the BBC TV 

commentator known affectionately as ‘the voice of 

Wimbledon’. 

Dan had a special empathy with disabled players and was 

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awarded an OBE in 1945 for his work as the RAF’s first 

rehabilitation Officer. 

The Trust’s role is to be a charitable provider of tennis 

wheelchairs and associated equipment/coaching bags as well 

as being the grant-aiding body for disability groups, 

associations, club programmes and individuals for any 

disability 

The Golf Show Group Ltd 

Forge Fields, Underriver, Sevenoaks, 

Kent TN15 0SB 

Tel: 01732 836100 

Fax: 01732 838034 

Email: colin@golfshowco.com 

Web: www.londontennisshow.com 

Contact: Colin Brunton, Managing Director 

The Golf Show Group has successfully organized Golf Shows 

over the past five years at both the ExCel Exhibition Centre in 

London and the NEC in Birmingham. Following their success, 

the company, in conjunction with the TIA UK, is adding the 

London Tennis Show to the ExCel edition of the London Golf 

Show to highlight tennis products and services to both 

general consumers and the trade. 


Watermeadow Lane, London SW6 2RR 

Phone 020 7751 9443 

Web www.harbourclub.co.uk 

Generally acknowledged as the finest Club in London, ranking 

amongst the best in the world, the Harbour Club offers 

members an unrivalled selection of facilities and services. 

The beauty of the Harbour Club, and what makes it so special 

compared to any other club in town, is that it complements 

every individual and family lifestyle, offering space, an 

unrivalled selection of facilities and services and style. 

Whatever you want from a club; somewhere to exercise or 

swim, play competitive or social tennis, or a place to spend 

time with your family, the Harbour Club fits the bill perfectly. 

And by having everything in one place, it’s so much easier to 

juggle hectic personal and professional lives, which is why 

members spend so much time here! 


Palliser Road, West Kensington, London W14 9EQ 

Phone 020 7386 3400 

Fax 020 7386 8295 

Web www.queensclub.co.uk 

Home of the AEGON Championships, The Queen’s Club 

boasts 28 outdoor Lawn Tennis courts, of which 12 are 

arguably the finest grass courts in the world, 8 indoor Lawn 

Tennis courts, 2 Real Tennis courts, 2 Rackets courts, 3 

Squash courts and the latest addition - a new gymnasium. 

The Club also offers excellent hospitality facilities, including 

an elegant Restaurant, Cafe, Real Tennis Museum, and 

President’s Room - all located within the Members’ 

Clubhouse. 

The Riverside Health & Racquets Club 

Ducks Hill Road, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2DR 

Phone 01923 848 000 

Fax 01923 840 166 

Web www.esporta.com 

The Riverside Club is the Northwood home of Esporta. 


PO Box 25746, Wimbledon, 

London SW20 0WG 

Phone: 0753 857 6470 

Email silvertennis@btinternet.com 

Web www.silvertenniscollection.com 

Contact: Robert Fuller 

Specialist dealer in tennis jewellery, gifts and antiquities. 

Supplier of tennis trophies and awards plus trophy restoration 

and engraving service. Can provide Exhibitions on the History 

of Tennis. 

Product Range: Tennis Jewellery, gifts, trophies, corporate 

gifts, exhibitions of tennis history with rare original 

memorabilia 1850-1970 

Services Provided: Trophy restoration and engraving 

The Smash! 

2 Nursery Cottages, Off Watford Road, 

St Albans, 

Herts AL1 2AQ 

Phone 00968 2468 2924 

Fax 00968 2469 7609 

Email jaymzlincoln@yahoo.co 

The Smash!” is a fictional novel by James Harbridge, a 

litigation lawyer who is a partner in an international law firm 

in Muscat, Oman as well as an accomplished author. 

The book takes off at the Wimbledon tennis championships 

which are in turmoil with the murder of the men’s number 1 

player. The many suspects include a bad boy Bollywood film 

star, a maverick sports agent, a corrupt umpire, but perhaps 

most importantly, some top stars of women’s tennis as well. 

Tabloid journalist Terry Proudley, a nondescript dreamer, joins 

forces with glamorous policewoman Verita Sassi to track 

down the culprit, never guessing that the quest for justice will 

take them to the south of France, then India...and beyond. 

So who is the murderer? And who will win the coveted 

women’s Wimbledon title? Find out in “The Smash”! 

Published by Pen Press Publishers Ltd (July 1, 2008 / ISBN- 

10: 1906206775 / ISBN-13: 978-1906206772), “The Smash!” 

is available from amazon.co.uk and most quality bookstores. 

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Oaklands Farm Cottage, 

West Lavington, 

Midhurst, West Sussex GU29 0EJ 

Phone: 01730 816 116 

Email: alan@tennisbookshop.com 

Web: www.tennisbookshop.com 

Contact: Alan Chalmers 

Trading quality literature related to racket sports. The Tennis 

Bookshop was established in September 1988 by Alan 

Chalmers as a specialist catalogue dealer in printed matter 

related to Lawn Tennis, Real/Court Tennis, Rackets/Racquets, 

and Squash Rackets, there being at the time no other 

specialist dealers in these fields, though most other sports 

were well covered. 

Since then, several others have set up similar businesses, but 

the Tennis Bookshop makes a strong claim to be the world’s 

leading dealer. 

Alan Chalmers played squash rackets and lawn tennis for 30 

years, and real tennis for the last 20 years. He has also 

organised many tennis and squash tournaments from club up 

to international level, and written the internet ball-by-ball 

reports on several of the recent world real tennis 

championship eliminator matches. 

Over the past three decades he has also worked on the Centre 

Court at Wimbledon overseeing the arrangements for the 

writing journalists and the competitors, and in that time 

amassed hundreds of journalists as friends and 

acquaintances. 

The Tennis Bookshop philosophy is that only very good 

condition books are acceptable to customers, and even now, 

stocks no titles published after 1935 that are not in their 

original dust-wrappers. 

Business is promoted by the issue of over 65 quarterly 

Newsletters, each of six pages which are mailed to customers 

in around sixty countries as well as via use of the internet and 

e-mails that now constitute about 75% of orders. 

Product Range: A very wide range of literature on real/court 

tennis, lawn tennis, rackets/racquets, and squash rackets. 

Titles traded range in date from 1500 to 2009. 

Services Provided: Valuations, collections purchased, 

exhibitions staged at major UK tennis events. 


112 Arthur Road, Wimbledon Park, 

London SW19 8AA 

Phone: 020 8715 8866 

Fax 020 8715 8877 

Email tennis@thetennisgallery.co.uk 

Web www.thetennisgallery.co.uk 

Contact: Richard Jones 

The Tennis Gallery Wimbledon is the number one destination 

for tennis lovers. Located in Wimbledon Park, SW19, the 

gallery is within walking distance of the All England Lawn 

Tennis Club and the world famous Centre Court. Here you can 

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browse all the latest tennis books, DVDs and magazines from 

around the world along with our stunning collection of tennis 

art, photographs and posters. We also have a range of Tennis 

Gallery Wimbledon local souvenirs including T-shirts, caps, 

mugs, keyrings, calendars and the famous Green Bag from 

the Home of Tennis. Our mailing list of over 8000 tennis fans 

is an influential consumer group, and our regular 

communications include the twice-yearly magazine What’s 

New In Tennis and the monthly Letter From SW19. 

Our unique tennis archive contains thousands of tennis 

books, films, programmes and magazines which form the 

basis of the services we provide to the media. We also design 

and build tennis exhibitions for corporate clients worldwide. 

We are situated right next to Wimbledon Park station (District 

Line), and we are open from 10am to 5pm, Tuesday to 

Saturday, all year round, with extended hours during 

Wimbledon fortnight. 

Product Range: Tennis books, DVDs, art, photographs, 

player and tournament posters, calendars, diaries, greeting 

cards, Christmas cards, notecards, postcards, jewellery and 

gifts. 

Services Provided: We organise tennis exhibitions for 

corporate clients, and provide wall decoration for tennis 

clubs. We also provide media research services, and props 

for films and TV. 

TIA UK Insurance 

Managed for the TIA UK by Trident Insurance 

Advanced House, 374-376 High Road, Ilford, 

Essex 1G1 1QP 

Phone: 0800 012 1899 

Fax: 020 8911 1444 

Email: enquiries@tiauk-insurance.co.uk 

TIA UK Insurance was set up to offer members, together with 

their family and friends, insurance cover for their businesses 

as well as for their domestic needs. 

A valuable and practical benefit to members when reviewing 

all their insurance needs, the TIA UK Insurance facility is also 

extended to readers of The Tennis Book. 

Advanced Insurance Centres Limited (trading as Trident) and 

Tasker & Partners Limited are two independent Brokers who 

have access to a panel of Insurers and Underwriting 

Syndicates, which comparison sites cannot possibly compete 

with. Why? Because they know their clients value 

independence as it gives unrivalled access to competitive 

rates both ‘on screen’ and, more importantly, off screen 

quotations. 

Neither firm has any obligation to any Insurer unless that 

Insurer offers the most competitive rates and cover. 

Both brokers are Authorised and Regulated by the Financial 

Services Authority; they are members of the Financial 

Services Compensation Scheme, and are under the 

jurisdiction of the Financial Ombudsman Service. 

There are no offshore call centres and the staff are thoroughly 

and regularly assessed to ensure the best levels of service

delivery and a user-friendly and understandable consultation 

to meet all your Insurance needs. 

Call Freephone 0800 012 1899 and quote “The Tennis Book 

2010” for your free insurance consultation. 

TRIOplus Tennis 

Suite 107, Capital Business Centre, 

22 Carlton Road, South Croydon, 

CR2 0BS 

Tel: 020 8398 3232 

Email: psandilands@trioplusonline.co.uk 

Web: www.trioplusonline.co.uk 

Contact: Phillip Sandilands 

TrioPlus Tennis is the UK’s market leader for tennis consultancy 

services, with over 25 years of tennis experience in the 

business planning, design and procurement of clubs and tennis 

venues. Services include club audits and operations; facility 

design and procurement; club start-ups, mergers and relocations; 

feasibility studies; funding applications; strategic 

planning; benchmarking and research; development and 

training and tennis road shows. We are uniquely qualified and 

positioned in the industry, bringing objective expertise and 

solutions that add value to the client, drawing on the extensive 

experience of Phillip Sandilands (former LTA Director of 

National Facilities), his co-Directors and Associates. 

Will To Win Ltd 

Head Office: Regents Park Tennis Centre, 

York Bridge, Inner Circle, London, NW1 4NU 

Phone 020 7224 1625 

Email: info@willtowin.co.uk 

Web: www.willtowin.co.uk 

Contact: Steve Riley 

Construction of Public Tennis Centres & Public Facility 

Management 

Development of Programmes and Community Club Links. 

Pro Shop in all Sites 

Over 30 Coaches and 50 tennis courts – UK leader in Private 

Product Range: Coaching, Courts, Rackets, Footwear, 

Holidays 

Services Provided: Facility Development and Management 

See late entries on page 46 

TENNIS BOOK 2011 

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Directory of TRS Certified Stringers 

Directory of TRS Stringers 

The Tennis Racquet Specialist Scheme is 

an education and certification programme 

for retailers and associated teaching pros 

benefitting the buying public. 

TRS Certified Stringers are the recognised experts in this field 

and a real asset to British tennis. 

Consumers are able to seek out TRS Certified Stringers from 

the directory below as well as on the TIA UK website at 

www.tiauk.org in the certain knowledge that they will receive the 

best available advice and service on their tennis racquet 

equipment. 

Workshops conducted by the European Racquet Stringers 

Association teach the best methods of modern racquet stringing 

and servicing and participants are subsequently tested by 

Master Racquet Technicians using the ERSA certification 

system that is the universally accepted standard around the 

world. 

This results in better advice and service for the consumer and 

ensures greater knowledge in tennis equipment and on-going 

maintenance costs is available through fully accredited 

specialist sports retailers and stringers. 

In all, a better deal for the British tennis enthusiast and the 

sports retailer, whether located in a shop or a club. 

Details on up-and-coming Workshops are available on 

www.tiauk.org and www.ersa-stringers.com . 

The directory lists qualified stringers according to the 

following criteria: 

TRS Master – Master Racquet Technician, the highest 

qualification in the field that enables holders of this certificate 

to string player racquets on the ATP and WTA Tours, to teach 

and to test apprentice stringers. 

TRS Certified Stringer – Expert stringers with up-to-date 

knowledge on modern methods and technologies 

ERSA Stringer – Standard stringers working towards TRS 

certification 

Apprentice – Learners of the trade working towards basic 

ERSA certification 

Jonathan Aran 

Prorestrings 

4 Cotton Meadow, Northampton NN5 5PP 

Phone 07752 755 804 

Email jonathan@prorestrings.co.uk 

Website www.prorestrings.co.uk 

Ronnie Bell 

Carlisle Squash Shop 

14 Simmerson Drive Carlisle CA1 3HZ 

Mauguin Benoit 

Court No 1 

20 rue Saint-Denis, 95160 MONTMORENCY, France 

Phone 00-33 1 39 89 43 38 

Mobile 00-33 6 10 49 42 42 

Email benoitmauguin@wanadoo.fr 

Ian Bicknell 

PWP Sportbase - Letchworth Tennis Centre 

Muddy Lane, Letchworth, Herts SG6 3TB 

Email ianbicknell@aol.com 

Peter Blance 

13 Trenchknowe, Edinburgh, Scotland EH10 7HL 

Email peter.blance@blueyonder.co.uk 

Stephen Bone 

Batchwood Tennis Centre 

Batchwood Drive, St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 5AX 

Len Borrett 

9 Moorlands Close, Brockenhurst, Hampshire SO4 27QS 

Pippa Britton 

Stonehill Road, Ottershew, Surrey KT6 0EL 

Pete Butcher (TRS Certified Stringer) 

15 The Fairway, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 3DZ 

Phone 01923 828 102 / 07860 270 527 

Email petebutcher4@googlemail.com 

Duncan Callan 

137 Osbourne Road North, Portgswood, Southampton, 

Hampshire SO17 2FH 

Email duncan@callansports.co.uk 

Sam Chan (TRS Master) 

10 Hartshill Close, Hillingdon, Middlesex UB10 9LH 

Email samchan@protourstringer.co.uk 

Denzil Chapman 

9 Woodlands Close, Holmer Green, High Wycombe, 

Buckinghamshire HP15 8GQ 

Email denzilchapman@yahoo.com 

Peter Cloud 

T/A Stamepede Stringing 

5 Falkenham Road, Kirton, Suffolk IP10 0NP 

Phone 01394 448 348 

Email peter@pcemail.co.uk 

Len Cooper 

Cresent LTC 

100 Church Way, Pagham, West Sussex PO21 4QX 

Adam Cornick 

69 Houghton Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU5 5AB 

Email adamgoes@hotmail.com 

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Richard Cox 

54 The Chestnuts, Crosshouses, Shrewsbury 

Shropshire SY5 6JM 

Phone 01743 762216 Mobile 07518 261794 

Email rcox28@tiscali.co.uk 

Roger Dalton (TRS Master) 

Benfleet Cottage, Oakshade Road, Oxshott, Surrey KT22 0LF 

Phone: 01372 842 285 Mobile: 07775 995 396 

Email: rdalton@cwcom.net 

Nigel Deane 

Deane Sports Bath Street, Cheddar, Somerset BS27 3AA 

Email nigel@deanesports.co.uk 

Robert Douglas 

77 Camanacho Crescent, An-Aird, Fort William PH33 6XL 

Keith England (ERSA Stringer) 

47 Morley Avenue, Wood Green, London N22 6LY 

Phone 020 8881 2362 

Email keitheng.nakmen3@talktalk.net 

Ben Fawcett (ERSA Stringer) 

Sutton, Surrey 

Phone 020 8642 1600 

Mobile 07769 423679 

Email df003v3926@blueyonder.co.uk 

Adam Field 

33 Willingdon Drive, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN22 0BT 

Email adamstennis@tiscali.co.uk 

Michael Fillingham (TRS Certified Stringer) 

11A Cockshutt Avenue, Beauchief, Sheffield, 

South Yorkshire S8 7DU 

Phone: 0114 2748 439 / 07985 374 148 

Email: mkf@talktalk.net 

Thomas Freeman 

22 Beauchamp Road, East Moseley, Surrey KT8 0PA 

Email toftheboff@hotmail.com 

Tim Freer 

38 The Paddock, Dawlish, Devon EX7 0ET 

Email tim.freer@btinternet.com 

Arzu Gabb 

Tennis Together Ashmanor School 

Manor Road, Tongham, North Guildford GU12 6QH 

Email arzugabb@yahoo.com 

Viv Ganz 

45 Summerland Avenue, Newton, Swansea SA3 4RX 

Dave Gartside 

North Wales Restrings 

34 Compton Way, Abergele, Conwy, Wales LL22 7BL 

Email david@northwalesrestrings.co.uk 

Israel Gefen 

Gefen Sports 

6 Okehampton Road, Kensal Rise, London NW10 3ED 

Email sales@gefensports.co.uk 

Rubin Gomez 

5 Oakwood Drive, Gowerton, Swansea SA4 3DJ 

Phone 01792 873 764 

Mark and Karen Goodman (TRS Masters) 

Phone: 0870 080 2949 

Email: info@topspintennis.co.uk 

Websites: http://www.topspintennis.co.uk/ ; 

http://www.tennisstrings.co.uk/ ; 

http://www.badmintonstrings.co.uk/ and 

http://www.squashstrings.co.uk/ 

TOP SPIN TENNIS SHOPS AT: - 

Hills Road Sports and Tennis Centre 

Purbeck Road, Cambridge CB3 8PF 

Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club 

Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0EQ 

Huntingdon Tennis Club 

King George V Playing Fields 

St. Peters Road, Huntingdon 

Cambs. PE29 7DA 

Robert Grainger 

28 Robin Close, Woodland Rise, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 5NG 

Email icklebob@hotmail.com 

Steven Graves 

Gravity Stringing 51 Parc Godrevy, Newquay, Cornwall TR7 1TY 

Phone 07796 413 548 

Email steve@gravitystringing.co.uk 

Website www.gravitystringing.co.uk 

David Greaves 

5 Egdon Road, Luton, Bedfordshire LU2 TAZ 

Email dmgreaves@ntlworld.com 

John Haggis (TRS Master) 

5 Hillbury Close, Warlingham, Surrey CR6 9TN 

Email john@johnhaggis.com 

Website www.johnhaggis.com 

David R Hall TRS Certified Stringer 

Racket Stringing 

5 Sheriffs Way, Clacton on Sea, Essex CO15 4ET 

Phone 01255 425 943 Mobile 07810 224 429 

Email david@racketringing.biz 

Website www.racketstringing.biz 

Mike Harding (TRS Certified Stringer) 

52 Oaklands Avenue, West Wickham, Kent BR4 9LF 

Phone 07956 406 699 

Email mike@mikeharding.freeserve.co.uk / 

mikeharding@fsmail.net 

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Roger Henry (TRS Master) 

17 Old Court Manor, Clougmills, Antrim, Northern Ireland 

BT44 9LW 

Phone 07989 480650 

Email roger@racketsolutions.com 

Website www.racketsolutions.com 

Charles Hill 

36 Norton Road, Bournemouth BH4 2PY 

Email CHill@bournemouth.ac.uk 

Richard Holmes (TRS Master) 

16 Manadarin Place, Grove, Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 0QH 

Phone 01235 762 368 

Mobile 07866 967 837 

Email richardholmes704@hotmail.com 

Website www.rh-stringing.co.uk 

Tom Hornett (ERSA Stringer) 

22 Frith Wood Lane, Billericay, Essex CM12 9PJ 

Phone 01277 650 580 

Email a.hornett@btinternet.com 

Shirley Houghton (TRS Certified Stringer) 

K C Racquets & Fitness c/o David Lloyd Leisure 

Pride Park, Derby, Derbyshsire DE3 0DQ 

Phone 01332 205 202 

Email carolyn.coxon@ntlworld.com 

David Howe 

191 Grove Lane, Hale, Cheshire WA15 8LU 

Email david.howe24@btinternet.com 

Ian Hoy 

String-Shop.co.uk 

189 Hadley Road, Leegomery, Telford TF1 6QF 

Email ian@string-shop.co.uk 

Andy Huffer Racquet Master 

38 Market Street, Fordham, Ely, Cabus CB7 5LQ 

Email andy.huffer@dial.pipex.com 

Mark Hyde 

Lisburn Racquet Club 

28 Colne Road, Barnoldswick, Lancashire BB18 5QU 

Email suemark@hyde570.fsnet.co.uk 

Neville Hyde 

9 Farndale Crescent, Darlington, Durham DL3 9AP 

Phone 07968 300 204 

Email nevillehyde@hotmail.com 

David Ince 

28 Bigwood Avenue, Hove, Sussex BN3 6FQ 

Giedrius Kabanuskas 



Email info@TENNIStogether.com 

Alan Kemp 

39 Copperfield Gardens, Brentwood, Essex CM1 44UB 

Email lisa_reeves@tiscali.co.uk 

Peter La Broy 

7 Queen Street, Bud, Cornwall EX23 8AY 

Email peterlabroy@aol.com 

Steve Landon 



Email tennisfreak@oink.co.uk 

Mark Lawrence 

Wycombe Badminton Centre 

Crest Road, High Wycombe, Bucks HP11 1UA 

Email Mwl060560@aol.com 

Ian Lever 

Flat 1, Wentworth, 2 Crichel Mount Road, Poole, 

Dorset BH14 8LT 

Mark Lever 

Racqueteers 

Flat 1, Wentworth 2, Crichel Mount Road, Poole, 

Dorset BH14 8LT 

Email racqueteers@yahoo.co.uk 

Stewart Lister Coach 

Basement Flat, 164 Upper Lewes Road, Brighton, 

Sussex BN2 3FB 

Phone 01273 248 958 

Email stewartlister@hotmail.co.uk 

John Little 

Rapid Racquet Restrings 

18 Leominster Road, Sunderland, Tyne-&-Wear SR2 9HG 

Email pauline.little4@ntlworld.com 

Timothy Lockett 

Total Performance Racquets 

47 Uttoxeter Road, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire ST3 1NY 

Email timothy@surtloch21.fsnet.co.uk 

Alistair Love 

170 Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, Kent BR6 0OT 

Email alistairtennis@btinternet.com 

Michael Lunt 

39 Swanpool Road, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 5AY 

Email michaellunt3@hotmail.com 

Lisa Lyddon 

Corfe Lodge Road, Broadstone, Dorset BH18 9NF 

Email lisalyddon@sky.com 

Paul Manning 

Serious about Sport 

Mayfield, The Street, Preston St Mary, Suffolk CO10 9NE 

Email paul@sasonline.net 

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Penny Marchant 

Marchmend, 138 Sutton Park Road, Kidderminster, 

Worcestershire DY11 6JQ 

Email marchy@blueyonder.co.uk 

Alastair Masterton (ERSA Stringer) 

Northwood, Middlesex HA6 1TG 

Mobile 07903 766 303 

Email alastairmasterton@live.co.uk 

Tom Mayes (TRS Certified Stringer) 

LTA, National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane, 

Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ 

Email Tom.Mayes@lta.org.uk 

Suzie Maynard-Mould (TRS Certified Stringer) 

Priory Sports The Edgbaston Priory Club 

Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2UZ 

Phone: 0121 440 8752 

Mobile: 07957 305 180 

Tony McAtamney 

Sweatband.com 

42 Clipstone Street, London W1W 5DE 

Phone 020 70366308 

Mobile 07759 831960 

Email tmcatamney@sweatband.com 

Simon McCarthy 

10 Farm Road, Esher, Surrey KT8 8AZ 

Phone 01372 468297 

Mobile 07847 503328 

Email simonjmccarrthy@hotmail.co.uk 

Nick McCollin 

17 St Bartholomews, Monkston, Milton Keynes MK10 9FJ 

Email nickmccollin@hotmail.com 

Rab McGill 

9 Craigcrook Park, Edinburgh, Scotland EH4 3PL 

Email rab@rabjen.com 

Robert Metcalf 



Email info@TENNIStogether.com 

Nicholas Morris (ERSA Stringer) 

14 Langley Road, Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, West Midlands 

WV3 7LM 

Phone 01902 764 617 

Mobile 07811 119 608 

Email nicko212@hotmail.com 

Maurice Mosdell 

20 Godiva Crescent, Bourne PE10 9QU 

Email MEMosdell@aol.com 

W D J Mould 

Priory Sports 

Sir Harry’s Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2UL 

Graham Moyle 

75 Baron Court, Werrington, Peterborough PE4 7ZF 

Email graham.moyle1@btinternet.com 

David Munt (TRS Master) 

46 Heathfield, Loddon Vale, Basingstoke, Hants RG22 4PA 

Phone 07841 532 878 

Email: david@racquets-mate.co.uk 

Website: www.racquets-mate.co.uk 

Lee Myers 

LTA, National Tennis Centre, 100 Priory Lane 

Roehampton, London SW15 5JQ 

Email Lee.Myers@lta.org.uk 

Damian Neiras 

174 Clonemore Street, Southfields, London SW18 5HB 

Email damianneiras@hotmail.com 

Paul Newman 

32 Vernier Crescent, Medbourne, Milton Keynes MK5 6FD 

Email paul.newman72@btopenworld.com 

Amiko Ogawa (TRS Certified Stringer) 

Sycamores, Loxwood Road, Alfold, Surrey GU6 8HG 

Phone 01403 753056 / 07963 054846 

Email ami1968@hotmail.co.jp 

Ben Page (TRS Certified Stringer) 

47 College Drive, Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 8SD 

Phone 01895 675 876 / 07515 334 856 

Email benpage@wintennis.com 

Stan Parry 

4 Harewood Gardens, Croydon, Surrey CR2 9BG 

Email scmparry@blueyonder.co.uk 

Rachel Partington 

2 Leinster Avenue, East Sheen, London SW14 7JP 

Phone 020 8878 1300 

Mobile 07973 173931 

Email rachelpartington@hotmail.co.uk 

Pritesh Pattni 

Racketeers 136 Townley Gardens, Aston, Birmingham B6 6LR 

Email priteshp1@btinternet.com 

Mike Perkins (ERSA Stringer) 

Sports & Fashions (Huntingdon) Ltd 

51 High Street, Huntingdon PE29 3AQ 

Phone 01480 454541 

Email sportsandfashions@xln.co.uk 

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Jamie Pethick (TRS Certified Stringer) 

218 Hurst Road, Sidcup, Kent DA15 9AN 

Phone: 07745 191 438 

Email: bathracketsolutions@hotmail.com or 

jamie.pethick@btinternet.com 

Liam Phillips (apprentice) 

Bradfield College 48 Southend Road, Southend Bradfield, 

Reading, Berkshire RG7 

Phone 0282 440 7828 / 07824 467 228 

Email liam-phillips@hotmail.co.uk 

Gabor Tibor Pos 

3300 EGER, Mikes Kelemen uit 44, EGER, Hungary 

Phone 00-3670 944 5228 

Email pos.gabor@chello.hu 

Barrie Poole 

String-A-Long 

13 Gigmill Way, Norton, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 3HN 

Ed Pooley 

All Strung Up 

11 Belmont Close, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton SO45 4NL 

Email edd.pooley@talktalk.net 

Gareth Richman (ERSA Stringer) 

24 Heathfield South, Twickenham TW2 7SS 

Mobile 07932 661 317 

Email gmrpix@mail.com 

Geraint Richards 

28 Clos Nant Ddu, Pontprennau, Cardiff CF23 8LF 

Email gjr861966@aol.com 

Chuck Ridyard (TRS Certified Stringer) 

Private Stringing Service 

Woodcote, Orchard Lane, Ashford, Kent TN25 4DX 

Phone 07713 502 652 

Email chuckwrsl@aol.com 

Simon Robbins 

String-A-Long 13 Gigmill Way, Norton, Stourbridge, 

West Midlands DY8 3HN 

Email simon_robbins100@hotmail.com 

Evelyn Roberts 

82 Palmiera Road, Bexleyheath, Kent DA7 4UX 

Email a1racquets@tiscali.co.uk 

Charlie Salter 

V-Tennis Virgin Active 

36 Bromyard Avenue, Acton, London W3 7AU 

Justin Sandever 

Racqueteers 

Flat 3, 11 McKinley Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH4 8AG 

Email justinsandever@hotmail.com 

Chris Sanlon (TRS Certified Stringer) 

62 Montgomery Chase, Belfast BT6 9GQ 

Phone 07751 469 765 

Email chris@boatclubtennisacademy.com 

Website www.cjstennis.com 

Voytek Sarama 

2 Dunlin Rise, Guildford, Surrey GU4 7DX 

Phone 01483 536 998 

Email vstennis@ntlworld.com 

Richard Seymour 

7 Woodcote Park Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7EY 

Email seymoursports@btconnect.com 

Mohammed Shafiq (ERSA Stringer) 

Racket Sports 

77 Harehills Road, Leeds, Yorkshire LS8 5HS 

Phone / Fax 0113 235 0811 

Email racketsports786@hotmail.com 

Rajesh Sharma 

49 Woodhill Crescent, Kenton Harrow, Middlesex HA3 0LU 

Email rajeshsharma@onetel.com 

Carolyn Simons-Coxon 

K C Racquets and Fitness C/O David Lloyd Leisure 

98 Broadway, Pride Park Way, Off Riverside Road, Derby, 

Derbyshire DE22 1BP 

Phone: 01332 205 202 

Fax: 01332 205 033 

E-mail: carolsimons@aol.com 

Gavin Simpson 

Moseley Hall, Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 8RB 

Email gavinsimpson@supanet.com 

Richard Sinton 

10 St James Avenue, Gawsworth, Macclesfield, 

Cheshire SK11 9RY 

Email r.sinton@talktalk.net 

Paul Skipp 

20 Wentworth Drive, Horndean, Waterlooville, Hants PO8 9PR 

Email paulskipp@theracketstringer.co.uk 

David Smith 

DA Sports Ltd 50 Springfield Close, Ongar, Essex CM5 0BB 

Email dasports@hotmail.com 

Marc Smith (TRS Master) 

Marc’s Racket Service 

8 Marguerite Grove, Lenzie, Glasgow G66 4HD 

Phone 0141-776-6519 

Email marcsracket@tiscali.co.uk 

Paul Smith 

Paul Smith Stringing Services 

4 Whipton Village Road, Whipton, Exeter EX4 8AR 

Email paulsmith@racketup.co.uk 

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John E South 

1 Bramshaw Rise, New Malden, Surrey KT3 5JT 

Email jesouth@blueyonder.co.uk 

Brian Snapes 

17 Albany Park Road, Kingston, Surrey KT2 5SW 

Email snapes@blueyonder.co.uk 

Roger Staple (TRS Certified Stringer) 

R S Racquet Stringing 

63 Holt Wood Avenue, Aylesford, Kent ME20 7QQ 

Phone: 01622 718 235 

Mobile: 07941 430 020 

E-mail: roger.staple@softpres.org 

Avril Steele 

Sportskit, Unit 3, The Meadow Centre 

Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 1DE 

Email info@dale-sport.co.uk 

Dave Stepney 

The Manor Prep School, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 6NL 

Phone 01235 522 737 

Email dave.stepney@o2.co.uk 

Trevor Sturrock 

The Cottage, Church Road, Wareham, King’s Lynn, 

Norfolk PE33 9AP 

Email tc.sturrock@btinternet.com 

Jeremy Taylor 

Tennis Coach, Bradfield College 

5 Lucas Close, Yately, Hants GU46 6JD 

Phone 0118 644 600 / 01252 640 059 

Email keith_pop@hotmail.com 

Thomas Therrien (TRS Certified Stringer) 

Proteam Tennis. Northfields, Bath BA1 5TN 

Phone 01225 852274 / 07973 672693 

Email tom@proteam-tennis.co.uk 

Ollie Toms 

The Grove Lawn Tennis Club 

East Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1NB 

Phone 01799 540833 

Mobile 07917 652014 

Email Ollie004@aol.com 

John Trickey 

11 Cramer Street, Stafford ST17 4BX 

Email stafford.schooloftennis@ntlworld.com 

Colin Triplow (TRS Master) 

73 Caling Croft, New Ash Green, Kent DA3 8PY 

Phone 01474 873 160 

Email colin@colinthestringer.com 

Website www.colinthestringer.com 

Dawn R Vaughan 

Fir Tree Cottage, Tilford Street, Tilford, Surrey GU10 2BN 

Email dawnyvaughan@aol.com 

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David Wallis 

Marlet House, Back Lane, Ampleforth, York YO62 4DE 

Jim Warner (TRS Certified Stringer) 

Clubshop David Lloyd Leisure 

27 Scott Drive, Newport Pagnell, Bucks MK16 8PW 

Phone 01908 618 377 

Charmaire Webb 

Flat 7, Seaview Court, Poole, Hampshire PO12 2UD 

Pete Wilcox 

Thorfinns, Rackenford, Tiverton, Devon EX16 8ER 

Email petewill31@hotmail.com 

Kevin Williams (TRS Certified Stringer) 

J.T. Sport & Leisure 

The Square, Wickham, Fareham, Hants PO17 5JT 

Phone 01329 833833 

Email info@jtsports.co.uk 

Tim Willis 

Southwest Restrings 

27 Bunting Close, Newton Abbott, Devon TQ12 6BU 

Email tim.willis27@virgin.net 

Darren Withey 

Titan Sports Ltd 

The Nook, 101 Chalkshire Road, Butlers Cross, 

Buckinghamshire HP17 0TJ 

Email darren.squash@btopenworld.com 

Gemma Wiltshire 

21 Lawdy Link, Upper Hale, Farnham, Surrey GU9 0BS 

Email headgem@yahoo.co.uk 

Lee Wolvey 

5 Ellington Drive, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG22 4EZ 

Email lee.wolvey@virgin.net 

Ian Wood (TRS Certified Stringer) 

Ian Wood Sports The Northumberland Club 

North Jesmond Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, 

Tyne & Wear N62 3JU 

Phone: 0191 281 2701 

Fax: 0191 281 2701 

Mobile: 07931 543 777 

E-mail: sales@ianwoodsports.com 

Geoff Woodcock 

The Racket Shop 

248C Shinfield Road, Reading RG2 8EY 

Email geoff@racketshop.co.uk 

Alison Woods 

36 Belfast Road, Lisburn, BT27 4AS 

Email alisonwoods@amserve.com 

Errol Zafer 

184 Park Road, Crouch End, London N8 8JT 

Email ZAFERVICT@aol.com

History 

Remembering the creator of a unique event 

Wimbledon is taken for granted by the millions who follow 

tennis. It also applies to those who don’t follow the sport for the 

name is synonymous with the game. In fact, it is the game in 

many people’s eyes! 

Delving into the history of Wimbledon, or The Championships 

to use its official title, one discovers that the first ball was struck 

on Monday 9th July 1877 on what was a sunny day, writes 

Henry Wancke. 

The venue was the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club 

situated on Worple Road, Wimbledon, by the side of the London 

and South Western Railway, the original site of what we now 

basically know as the AELTC or All England Club based in 

Church Road whence they moved to in 1922. 

The Championships have been played ever since except for the 

war years of 1915-18 and 1940-45 but who actually came up 

with the idea of establishing the event which has become the 

bye-word of the sport? 

The man behind the 1877 staging of the inaugural tournament 

was Henry Jones, a doctor who under the pen name of 

‘Cavendish’ had become an authority on all ‘games’ of the time. 

But there was more to it than just organizing an event. These 

days we have all sorts of templates which can be followed and 

plenty of organizations who can provide assistance. 

Back then Dr Jones was working with a blank sheet of paper, no 

rules, no scoring system, no standard balls and no standard 

court. As far as the populace was concerned, tennis was just a 

Victorian pastime which went under the name of “Sphairistike” 

and played simply on their lawns. In fact a novelty game 

introduced by Major Wingfield to the public at large three years 

earlier and taken up by the Club in 1875. 

So, once the idea of a tournament was established, many 

aspects taken for granted nowadays, had to be agreed and Dr 

Jones was the man who decided and his decisions have shaped 

the sport to this day.. 

The main difference between today’s game and those of Dr 

Jones’ time can be seen in the size and shape of the net. In 1877 

the net was five feet high at the posts and three feet three inches 

in the middle, later modified to 3 feet 6 inches and 3 feet. The 

service line was also five foot further from the net and while an 

hour-glass court shape was used on the Victorian lawns, Dr 

Jones squared it off and settled on a length of 26 yards long and 

9 yards wide for the tournament, a decision which has remained 

constant to this day. 

His biggest decision was to introduce the scoring system which 

again has not been changed since then. The only addition being 

the tie-break which was first introduced in the USA in 1970 and 

adopted by Wimbledon the following year. 

Considering the game was only a few years old it wasn’t 

surprising that rackets scoring was favoured by most of the 

players with only the server scoring and the first to 15 being the 

winner. 

However Dr Jones went against the general trend and opted to 

adopt the scoring system as used by the ancient game of tennis 

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rather than rackets which is why we are now accustomed to the 

15-love etc., one of the much loved idiosyncrasies of the game! 

Then he had to decide how to run the tournament and so 

introduced the knock-out draw by following the practice of other 

games of the time, especially croquet which had been an 

integral part of the Club since its foundation in 1868. 

For the record, a field of 22 Gentlemen competed in that first 

Championships from which Spencer William Gore emerged 

victorious defeating William Marshall easily. While the knockout 

draw is still played today, in those days it was customary for a 

Challenge Round to be the Final. This was played for the first 

time the following year allowing the reigning champion to wait 

for a challenger to emerge from the All-Comers draw. This 

practice was dropped in 1922 when the Club moved to its 

current site. 

That first tournament, despite its novelty, was deemed a success 

attracting around 200 spectators, each paying one shilling, to 

watch the final! A far cry from what we now know as Wimbledon 

and while I am sure Dr Henry Jones never visualized his 

tournament would grow and become such a huge international 

event, we can but thank him for sowing the seeds for the 

greatest tennis event in the world. 

At the time he created a unique event and it remains that to this 

day. 

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Svetlana Kuznetsova and Marin Cilic, is also the 

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Tennis Trade Membership 

If tennis is your business, membership of the TIA UK is essential 

Membership is open to specialist manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, trading 

companies, businesses and other interested parties with an active business interest in tennis. 

Individual TRS Certified Stringers are becoming the acknowledged experts in the field of 

racquet technology and a real asset to British tennis. 

By joining the TIA UK, your business will: 

• Appear in future editions of The Tennis Book 

• Appear in the Member Directory on the TIA UK website, visited by over 75,000 people a year 

• Receive concessionary rates at The London Golf and Tennis Show at ExCel, home Davis 

Cup ties and other professional tournaments 

• Gain access to The Tennis Shop to sell your products at events and/or the Info Zone 

through which to disseminate your information 

• Gain access to TIA Insurance and TennisWire Network public relations services 

• Receive a Wimbledon photo ID ground pass for access throughout The Championships 

Company Memberships: 

□ Partner Member @ £1,600 [tennis turnover + £500,000] 

□ Tier I Member @ £670 [tennis turnover + £200,000] 

□ Second Brand @ £360 

□ Overseas Trade Member @£700 / €790 / $1,125 

Individual Memberships: 

□ Associate Member (non-voting) @ £160 

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Tennis Trade Membership 

If tennis is your business, membership of the TIA UK is essential 

Membership is open to specialist manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, trading 

companies, businesses and other interested parties with an active business interest in tennis. 

Individual TRS Certified Stringers are becoming the acknowledged experts in the field of 

racquet technology and a real asset to British tennis. 

By joining the TIA UK, your business will: 

• Appear in future editions of The Tennis Book 

• Appear in the Member Directory on the TIA UK website, visited by over 75,000 people a year 

• Receive concessionary rates at The London Golf and Tennis Show at ExCel, home Davis 

Cup ties and other professional tournaments 

• Gain access to The Tennis Shop to sell your products at events and/or the Info Zone 

through which to disseminate your information 

• Gain access to TIA Insurance and TennisWire Network public relations services 

• Receive a Wimbledon photo ID ground pass for access throughout The Championships 

Company Memberships: 

□ Partner Member @ £1,600 [tennis turnover + £500,000] 

□ Tier I Member @ £670 [tennis turnover + £200,000] 

□ Second Brand @ £360 

□ Overseas Trade Member @£700 / €790 / $1,125 

Individual Memberships: 

□ Associate Member (non-voting) @ £160 

□ TRS Certified Stringer @ £75 

□ TRS Non-voting Member @ £30 

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