When tennis balls were still white and landscapers (rather than diesel machinery) were depended upon to make tennis courts; it was also a time when the abilities of a skilled tailor were required for tennis clothes. These court-side stylists would not simply monitor the drape of tennis trousers but they would anticipate the unspoken needs of their tennis dandies - and in so doing, the tennis blazer was born.
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Click here to read about the first steel tennis racket.
