Kirsty Chapman and Emma Ford were great friends and tennis partners and although they went to different schools they vowed to stick together to try to save their tennis club from closure.
When wealthy Mrs Richmond lost all her money, Wanda Simmons left the orphanage to help the woman who had wanted to adopt her. Mrs Richmond took a job in the Sports’ Department of a Jorge store but she became very angry when Wanda saw her demonstrating a tennis stroke to a customer.
Trudy Maxwell has been a popular tennis player, but now she has adopted the persona “Terrible Trudy”, the bad girl of tennis. She is trying to win as much money as possible to help her bankrupt father pay off his debts and thinks a bad girl reputation will attract more people to her matches and earn her more money. Her plan is working, but the price is loneliness and unpopularity.
Mrs Martin is helping tennis player Tracy Tudor to become the Golden Girl of Britain again after she is injured in a car crash. But Tracy does not know Mrs Martin had caused the crash in the first place.
Miss Bell, the headmistress of St Frys, is determined to win sporting fame for the school, and appoints Anita Bassett sports captain. But Miss Bell goes overboard on her tactics to train her sports teams and even resorts to cheating, and this causes problems for Anita.
Helen a shepherdess had rebelled against her family’s strict way of life in the hills, and had run away to Medwold. There she was befriended by the coach of the local tennis club, Miss Grayson, who saw Helen as a potential tennis champion, and entered her for the club, tournament. But when Dianne, one of Helen’s opponents, threatened to tell Helen’s family where she was, Helen deliberately lost the semi-final and decided to move on.
Helen from the Hills– Judy: #819 (20 September 1975) – #829 (29 November 1975)
Jane Taggart had been coached by her guardian, Rachel Strong, known as “the Coach”, who had filled the girl’s life with tennis even to the extent of chaining her to her racket. When Jane joined a professional tennis “circus” run by Jack Miller, he and his wife decided to arrange a party for Jane, but a jealous rival player, Pauline Fox, told Jane that if she went to the party there would be more to follow, eating into the time she would have for practising and playing tennis.
Elaine Morgan, robbed of a great chance of winning the ladies’ singles at Wimbledon,by a leg injury, vows to find another Welsh girl whom she can train to win this coveted title. The girl she chooses is Linda Rees. The training takes years of patience and hard work, but now Linda is playing at Wimbledon with an outside chance of winning. Worried by trouble in the village where she lives, Linda performs poorly in her first match, but a telegram that tells her the trouble has been cleared up boosts her spirits.
We’ll Win Wimbledon for Wales – Judy: #396 (12 August 1967) – #403 (30 September 1967)
Sue Budge – known as Budgie – is a rising star in professional tennis who ends up going on international tournaments.
Plot:
Penny Farrell is a rising tennis star as the result of her partnership with T Jones. But there is something strange about T Jones, who seems to have powers of precognition.
