{"id":804856,"date":"2026-10-16T20:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804856\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T20:54:34","slug":"game-set-and-match-how-ladies-tennis-teams-caught-on-in-cumbria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804856\/","title":{"rendered":"Game, set and match: how ladies\u2019 tennis teams caught on in Cumbria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The junior under 18 county tennis team taking part in the inter-county championship in Hull April 1976 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As lawn tennis spread across Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, clubs were established throughout the county, providing opportunities for women to compete at a time when many other sports remained largely male dominated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The Cumbrian Ladies tennis team, 1979 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Traditional clubs such as Kendal Lawn Tennis Club, Silloth-on-Solway Lawn Tennis Club, Eden Lawn Tennis Club in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/local-news\/carlisle-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlisle<\/a> and Keswick and Braithwaite Lawn Tennis Club helped foster women\u2019s participation in the sport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Throughout the 20th century, ladies\u2019 teams became a fixture of club life, competing in county competitions, local leagues and friendly matches.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The 1975 Morton School tennis team (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tennis clubs were often important social centres as well as sporting venues, with women\u2019s teams playing a key role in sustaining membership and organising club championships, tournaments and fundraising events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The junior under 18 county tennis team taking part in the inter-county championship in Hull April 1976 (Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}