Exhibition “The Levitsky ‘Light-Painting’ Studio”, Hermitage Museum, St Petersberg

An early photograph produced by the Levitsky Studio was included in the exhibition “The Levitsky ‘Light-Painting’ Studio, Early Russian Photography in the Collection of the State Hermitage Museum (10 January 2015 – 17 January, 2016) “Group portrait of Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich, Duke Nikolai of Leuchtenberg, Otto von Richter, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich and an […]

The Neptune Book of Tennis & Rackets by James Bruce

A wonderful new updated edition of the J.T. Faber Book of Tennis and Rackets has been published.  This second update (and third version of this book, first published in 1980 (and 2001) by Lord Aberdare), contains a wealth of new information curated by Jamie Bruce with excellent updated histories of clubs, tournament records and new […]

Cees de Bondt’s Blog

Cees de Bondt has created a new Blog on the Dutch Real Tennis site. There are 15 installments to date based on his research since 2005 on one of the most beautiful and intriguing paintings in the history of tennis.  Please click here to view the Blog.  “As tennis historian (author of Royal Tennis in Renaissance […]

The 2014 World Championship on YouTube

The 2014 World Championship was held at the Royal Melbourne Club 6-11 May where Rob Fahey defended his title for the 12th time beating the Challenger Camden Riviere.  The tennis was expertly covered by FuzzyTV and hosted live on YouTube. Follow the links for the three days of tennis: Tuesday 6 May Day 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Q_D1kZvhI Thursday […]

Michael P. Garnett TENNIS – REFLECTIONS IN TIME

Announcing a new book by Mike Garnett to be published in March 2014! This latest production by Mike Garnett completes the trilogy of tennis history that commenced in 2004 with A Tennis Miscellany, then 2010 with Tennis Anecdotes and Sketches. Revealed here for the first time is information (and many illustrations) of long forgotten tennis courts […]