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Hazells Streamline Agua Blue Star In 1935, former professional player Frank W. Donisthorpe filed a design for a frame featuring a distinctive triple-shaft structure, with a slim main shaft supported by two diagonal shafts extending from the handle to the head. This innovative configuration was intended to reduce air resistance while enhancing the racquet's balance and strength. Professional player Henry 'Bunny' Austin was contracted to use this innovative design and remained

By the late 1930s, Hazell’s introduced what would become the most iconic design of the entire Streamline series: the White Star model. With its clean white lacquer finish and subtle detailing, the racquet embodied visual clarity, structural harmony, and technical refinement.

The Hammer Tauberperle racquet, marked with the Reichsadler and Olympic rings and featuring a swastika on a part of the frame deliberately excluded from our presentation, is a relic of that era. It serves as a reminder of how sport, once intended to unite people across nations and cultures, could be appropriated for political purposes and used in the service of a regime determined to shape international perceptions through spectacle and symbolism.

This early production model of the Hazell’s Streamline represents one of the most daring departures from traditional racquet design in the interwar period. Patented by Frank W. Donisthorpe, the racquet’s distinctive triple-shaft structure embodied a radical aerodynamic vision at a time when tennis technology was still dominated by the classic wooden racquet design.

Jaroslav Drobný was born in Prague on 12 October 1921 and died in London on 13 September 2001. He competed at the highest level in two sports, tennis and ice hockey, and is recorded as an Olympic silver medallist in ice hockey as well as a Grand Slam singles champion in tennis.

Jean Borotra, two‑time Wimbledon champion, his imprisonment at Schloss Itter in Austria, and his presence during the Battle of Schloss Itter in May 1945, one of the final armed engagements of World War II.