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This footage from the Nine Network shows the first set of the 1970 Women's Singles Championship match between Australia's Margaret Court and American tennis star, Billie Jean King.
Court won the...
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This newsreel segment from 1933 profiles Australian Jack Crawford, the world No. 1 men’s tennis player that year.
He won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon but fell short of being the...
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Players wear roller skates in a mixed doubles tennis match played in Melbourne in this newsreel clip from 1940.
Please note this clip is silent. The NFSA holds the picture negative only for this...
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This newsreel clip shows Junior Hardcourt Champion Tony Roche in a practice game with professional champion Lew Hoad.
Roche went on to make the Wimbledon final once, in 1968, where he was defeated by...
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This clip by the Australian News and Information Bureau shows young Australians being coached and competing to become the tennis stars of tomorrow.
James Outram Anderson, winner of three Australian...
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Host Roger Climpson honours Frank Sedgman on an episode of This Is Your Life in 1979. This clip includes an appearance by his wife Jean and footage of his winning Wimbledon in 1952.
From 1948 to 1952...
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This Is Your Life honours Australian tennis champion, John Newcombe.
In this clip, host Roger Climpson introduces two other tennis greats who pay tribute to Newcombe, Australian Ken Rosewall and...
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This clip is from Bicentennial Minutes, a series of 60-second snapshots of Australian history produced in 1988 to mark 200 years since the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney in 1788.
This episode...
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Boris Becker may have been the two-time Wimbledon defending champion but it was 22-year-old Pat Cash who won the men's single championship in straight sets against Ivan Lendl, 7-6; 6-2; 7-5.
Cash was...
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The Australian Commonwealth Film Unit made several short public service films using sporting stars to promote road safety. This clip has tennis great Harry Hopman warning people to stay focused when...