A great gift for the tennis fan, a personalised history book of the Wimbledon Championships since 1913 using actual news stories of the time.
The world famous Wimbledon tennis championships started in the 1880's and are now the best known tennis championships in the world.
Starting from 1913 the books cover the history of this prestigious event through actual newspaper reports, to capture the winners and losers and the highs and lows through the years.
Read about the tennis greats from the past and present from Tony Wilding’s 4th Wimbledon win in 1913, Lacoste in the 1920s, Fred Perry’s win in 1934, Hoad and Gibson in the 50s, through to more modern greats such as Laver, Billie Jean King, Connors, Borg, Navratilova, McEnroe, Becker, Graf, Sampras and many more.
The biggest and best of Tennis over the last century. It also includes Andy Murray's hard-fought victory over World No. 1 Novak Djokovic to end a 77 year wait for a British champion.
Bound in a hard cover the book includes a personalised certificate label on the opening page to make it a very special gift. For a small additional cost a name can also be embossed in gold onto the front cover
Available in a choice of two covers, leatherette in brown or real leather in black. There is an extra charge of £20.00 for the luxury leather cover.
Pages from newspapers after 2006 can be shown in full colour. This is an extra option for the leatherette cover but is included in the price of the leather bound books.
The front cover can have the name of choice (22 characters) and the certificate label includes a name (22 characters) and a message (5 rows, 30 characters per row).
made from:
Hard bound cover in leatherette or real leather.
dimensions:
38 x 31cm
product code:
395253