Tennis World Championships Open at Wimbledon (1921) | BFI National Archive
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Worple Road staged the first Wimbledon open championships in 1878, but by 1921 the ground was proving too small and the tournament moved to its present site in 1922. This film shows that final tournament in the old ground. We see a number of top players, including Brian Norton, who would lose in the men’s final, and “Mrs [Phyllis] Satterthwaite”. Crowds are large but the style is strange, with women serving underarm and the pace considerably slower than today’s game.
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imagine Nadal time travel to that era.. people would think he's alien
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all i know is if i went back in time...these ppl would still kick my ass on the court the way I play..lol
Nadal would be given a simple wood racket just like they have and his 3000 rpms would drop to 500 and he would have to play tennis just like them, building a point through thought and subtlety rather than winning with advanced tech and PEDs through brute force.
Mrs Craddocks underarm serve, legendary.
We can only imagine her 'technique', if she got on the court, after drinking 2 litres of neat vodka...
Thanks for sharing these rare videos. Very interesting for fans of tennis history.
A piece of Britian's treasured history!!!
We shall never loose this.
lose
The pace has changed. It was a "gentleman " or "gentle" game then. Wonder if they didn't try harder due to etiquette.
Mrs Craddock has a lot of finesse in that underarm serve
Who Said Lendl first modern forehand, that man on first clip had a quite modern swing on forehand
Conversations you may not have heard of on courtside in 1921:
Official : "Um...excuse me, Mr Braithwaite, it is against the spirit of the game to practice wearing a pair of white knickers..."
Spectator : "Good Lord, Mrs CottonMary is wearing a sleevless apparel ! How undignified !"
Umpire : "I have summoned you two contestants to gently remind you that both of you are guilty of the following acts - Mr Shinglecutter, you will desist from wasting precious seconds of the playtime by unnecessarily bouncing the ball on the turf with your free hand before commencement of the serve.
As for you, Mr CatgutTwine, there has been official complaints from the spectators on your exceedingly high decibel levels of, dare I say, grunting at the exact moment of your serve to commence a point of play.
That will be all, Gentlemen. Thank you."
I’m glad that Nole is playing in this era.
I’ve visited and played at the Old Worple road venue! It’s awesome and has an amazing historic feel.
it so weird seeing someone play tennis wearing long pants and rolled up long sleeves. like they just came from the office or something.
Trousers. Pants are underwear.
@@juicybear7696 Dungarees?
show Suzanne Lenglen playing, please...
women served underarm!
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Is it 1921 or 2001?
They didn’t have three line judges at each end
No linespeople?
Playing tennis in pants is crazy
Doesn’t Mrs Craddock realise you can serve overarm?
Doubt Nadal could play with these racquets and ball. Different game then. Best tennis was around my time 70's 80's then in the 1990's technology took over.
Yeah I ldk why people compare eras. Most people think that Nadal or Djokovic playing like they do solely depends on their ability and nothing else, while technology plays a big role in that. Nadal with his modern equipment and technology will surely beat their asses but if Nadal was born in that era and played then he'd be playing just like them.
Sissy like
Why would anyone want to be born before the 1990’s? That must have ben so lame because there was no tiktok