ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the changes for women in tennis within the context of the sport's broader democratisation, and examines the sport's impact on women's emancipation more generally. It also examines the internal changes within the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and their affiliated clubs as they attempted to deal with these and other issues related to the provision of opportunities and talent development in the mid-1920s. In the early 1920s, inter-club competitions for women in many counties were either not in existence or poorly organised. The British authorities were mostly concerned with ensuring that Wimbledon's female players appeared with utmost respectability. At the end of 1922, after the British defaulted to Spain in the Davis Cup second round because they could not field a sufficiently strong team, a mutiny was staged within the LTA administration by an activist group calling itself the Lawn Tennis Reform Committee (LTRC).
