"belle" - the most beautiful, charming, or engaging woman or girl among a number: the belle of the ball.

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This 1910 postcard of a belle with red had and matching sash portrays Victorian tennis styles of days gone bye.   The same postcard was available at least as early as 1907 and reflects the aristocratic belle de tennis entering into the 20th century.

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The the turn of the century, the 21st century, the most internationally renowned (and internet searched) belle de tennis was Anna Kournikova

Here, in 2000, Anna graces the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly (GQ) with the subtitle "Don't Call Me Lolita"

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1922 American Woman magazine

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 This 1882 lawn tennis artwork is entitled  "The Tennis Belle":

(click for a larger picture)

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femme de fashion also fits this category, as historically fashion and beauty have been portrayed as pretty much synonymous where tennis is concerned.

The Ladies Home Journalcover from 1900 exemplifies the fashion of the time for attending a tennis event.  Things are quite a bit more relaxed and less formal today, wouldn't you say?

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"Beauty, Safeguard it" - 1926 Palmolive

Coca-Cola class - the pictures from these ads speak for themselves for fashionable belle's in tennis (click for a larger image):

1923 & 1950s.

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Here are two more tennis beauties from F. Earl Christy, both pubished by Reinthal & Newman Pubs N.Y.

This one is titled: ""The girl I like to play with"

This post card matches the book cover of The Heart of Gold, 1890.  L. T. Meade, born in Ireland in 1854, was a prolific author who authored over 300 novels.   

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"Three Queens"

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