The Miss VB Digital Tennis Museum

Blue photo album with flick-up pages full of Wimbledon and a few other tennis match tickets.

‘A Wimbledon Star Draws Her Rivals’ by Helen Wills. A4 print of female tennis player in 1927, by Helen Wills, a once tennis star. Helen Wills was an outstanding American tennis player who was the top female competitor in the world for eight years (1927–33 and 1935). Wills began playing tennis when she was 13 and won her first major title, the U.S. girls’ championship, in 1921. She repeated as national girls’ champion in 1922 and won her first women’s singles title in 1923 at the age of 17. With powerful overheads and serves, combined with extraordinary control, Wills soon dominated women’s tennis; from 1926 until 1932 she did not lose a set in singles play. She was a seven-time U.S. champion (1923–25, 1927–29, and 1931) and eight-time Wimbledon winner (1927–30, 1932–33, 1935, and 1938) in singles competition. From 1923 to 1939, she captured 4 French singles titles and 12 U.S., Wimbledon, and French doubles championships. In 10 Wightman Cup appearances, she won 18 of 20 singles matches. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, she earned two gold medals. Known as “Little Miss Poker Face” for her stoic demeanour, Wills engaged in a fierce rivalry with the gregarious U.S. player Helen Hull Jacobs. Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Wills. 

Brass Coronation commemorative plate bowl coin, 1953, given to player Miss Joyce Coles, card inside explaining what it's for with players name hand written on the card.