Written to celebrate 150 years of lawn tennis in Leamington spa. This history explains how Lawn Tennis first came to the town and how it evolved into today’s multi sport club on Guys Cliff Avenue - Leamington Lawn Tennis and Squash Club (LLTSC).

Purchase your own copy of this 300 page book to celebrate the important part Leamington Spa and our club has played in the development of the glorious game of tennis. You may even spot some familiar faces from LLTSC in amongst the pages! The finished book is 19 by 25cm, soft back in full colour.

LLTSC would like to thank Susan Hopcraft for the hard work invested in putting this together and the many other helpers along the way. We would also like to thank Loveitts Estate Agents and Wright Hassall LLP for their financial support to get this produced.

£1 from the sale of each book will go to the LLTSC charity of the year - Welcome to Age UK Coventry & Warwickshire.

Book Review

Leamington Tennis club celebrated its 150th anniversary at the weekend. Coincidently, a book about the Spa town’s association with the game of tennis was launched at the event, attended by some 400 people from all over the county. The author is local solicitor, Susan Hopcraft, and the book “Leamington’s Game” runs to some 300 pages.

The book is outstanding. I can recommend it whole heartedly. It will be of interest to anyone interested in sport. Susan is a lover of tennis, an historian, and a good writer. “Leamington’s Game” is her first book. It has authority, solid information, and much human interest. Not only does the work record the first game of tennis played by four gentlemen at the Manor Hotel around 1874, and the town’s connection with the early history of the sport but also has a good deal of information on local tennis clubs and personalities since 1960.

Peter Bowen