#british tennis

[murdomaclachlan]

LTA: we want to make tennis more accessible and encourage more young and disadvantaged people to play!

Also LTA: takes over local tennis courts that used to be free for anyone to go along at any time and enforces a rigid booking system and charges people to book

Surely this will encourage the kids to play!

[huariqueje]

Night Court 3 - Laurence Jones , 2017.

British, b. 1991 -

Acrylic and ink on linen , 80 x 100 cm. 31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.

[princesscatherineblog]

Catherine Duchess of Cambridge at Wimbledon for the Men's Singles final between Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Roger Federer of Switzerland during Day thirteen of The Championships - Wimbledon 2019 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2019 in London, England

[bluespring864]

Jack Draper reaches his first Slam quarterfinal at the 2024 US Open

[thepastisalreadywritten]

💜🫶💜

[world-of-wales]

THE BALL GIRL 🎾

The Princess of Wales and Roger Federer featured together in a short film about the Ball Boys and Girls at Wimbledon and the training recieved by them || 25 JUNE 2023

[world-of-celebs]

Emma Watson at the 2023 US Open Tennis Championships on September 05, 2023 in New York City.

[weepingwidar]

Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy (British, 1999) - Premium Slam (2023)

[hrhzaratindall]

Zara and Mike Tindall at the Federer: twelve final days special screening

[muirneach]

but this is true murray behaviour tbh

[huariqueje]

Night Court - Laurence Jones , 2015.

British, b. 1991 -

Acrylic and acrylic ink on linen ,   108 x 120 cm. 42 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.

[bellezzamortale]

"#...rafans who for the most part had. ahem #some strong opinions on juan carlos ferrero" oooh can you say more pls im curious

oh it's really just exactly what you think it would be, lmao.

idk if you were on tennis twitter during the peak big 4 era, but if you weren't the one thing you've got to know is that it's nothing like the cute little tennis tumblr community. on here we all love out faves and if we have players we don't like, we mostly keep it to ourselves.

meanwhile 2010s tennis twitter? was insanely tribal. it was a battle field where most fans of the big 3 thought of themselves as footsoldiers in the war effort of establishing their fave as the GOAT.

rafans, fedfans and nolefam have been on the warpath since forever. in the 2010s when roger was still at the peak of his powers some fedfans hated rafa so much i once saw one of them refer to him as "sewer slime". lots of fans are completely convinced all the other big players are dopers and only their personal favourite is clean, and that the other players are faking their injuries and only their personal favourite is really hurt, etc etc.

so of course when juanki took little jabs at rafa every once in a blue moon in interviews, how many hardcore rafans were saying "aw he's had a rough go at it with injuries for years, and rafa is a young upstart who came in and totally stole his spotlight, i can see how that could be upsetting, lets give the man a bit of grace"? uh. not a lot 😭😂

so my introduction to the man was basically only rafans making snide comments about him being jealous and a bad sport, because he was already retired for a couple of years when i joined twitter so i never got to saw him play live.

the strangest part of it all was that i distinctly remember a couple of rafa fans (i could probably count them on one hand though) who just... distrusted ferru by association? because if ferru was so close with someone who clearly didn't like rafa, then surely ferru himself had to bear a grudge against rafa and was just hiding it really well!!! they were constantly on the lookout for the most minor infraction, i got unfollowed by like 5 people over a completely harmless joke ferru made after the 2015 rio open final that people adamantly took out of context.

good times! everyone was completely off their rocker and i wouldn't have missed it for the world 😌

[princesscatherineblog]

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at the LTA's National Tennis Centre on September 24, 2021 in London, England.

[bluespring864]

Interviewer: “You have decided to take part in the mixed doubles with a certain Andy Murray.”

Emma: “Yeah, I mean… My doubles record isn’t exactly the longest or most vast, but – I couldn’t say no. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, it’s a dream of mine since I was a young girl, since watching the Olympics. Andy’s a hero to all of us. So for me It’s a real gift and it’s a real honour that he asked me […] and I’m just super excited to be on the mixed doubles court and hopefully learn a thing or two about coming to the net or something [laughs].”

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte At Wimbledon 2024 — Day 14

Catherine, Princess of Wales, and Princess Charlotte attend day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on 14 July 2024 in London, England.

📸: Karwai Tang / WireImage

[world-of-wales]

The Princess of Wales and Roger Federer featured together in a short film about the Ball Boys and Girls at Wimbledon and the training recieved by them || 25 JUNE 2023