Women’s Tennis (1910-1919)

Women’s tennis tournament - possibly Wimbledon, London? Various shots of unidentified women tennis players. Women are playing at a tennis club with several adjoining courts. The footage is divided into segments focusing on individual players serving and returning the ball. Ballboys wait at edge of court to chase balls for the players. Some of the shots have other courts in background with people walking around or milling about on the courts, others have a small seating area half full of spectators in background. MS British Royal Navy Admiral Beatty (?) in uniform, talking with a civilian man in a suit, male tennis player in background. FILM ID:2460.2 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the