The evolution of the tennis racket: a collection of 14 lawn tennis rackets dating between circa 1880s-2000, eight wooden framed rackets including a flat-top, a fish-tail, a Hazell's Streamline Blue Star, Dunlop Maxply etc.; a Birmal aluminium racket with piano wire stringing, and five rackets from the modern era including racket styles used by Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe etc.