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The Tennis Bookshop
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.
The Tennis Gallery Wimbledon
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