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Young tennis hopeful Jo Louis is at a coaching session in Torquay
Sport 1980 5 mins
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Professional tennis player Jo Louis trains with her coach and father at Torquay Tennis Club. Young female players often make the transition to becoming professional from fourteen to eighteen when they start playing more adult tournaments on the International Tennis Federation circuit. Jo went on to manage the Exmouth Tennis and Leisure Centre and represent Great Britain on the Senior Tour.
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The South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA) is the regional film archive for the South West of England. Established in 1993, SWFTA's core collection comprises of the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and TSW (Television South West). The archive also cares for a significant number of donated film collections, both amateur and professional, dating back to the early 1900s.
