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Wimbledon has been forced to remove an image of the poster from its Twitter account. The dress worn by Tennis Girl, along with two posters and a tennis racquet (pictured above),\u00a0went on sale<\/a> at Fieldings Auctioneers in Stourbridge, West Midlands, last year.
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The controversial poster forms part of the Powerful Posters show at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum.<\/p>\n

The club yesterday posted an image of the Tennis Girl poster to its Twitter account, which has nearly 1.5 million followers.<\/p>\n

But the move drew criticism, with one Twitter user writing: \u2018The poster doesn\u2019t show the history of tennis, the girl isn\u2019t a tennis player, you are just publicising sexualisation of females.\u2019<\/p>\n

The club later withdrew the photo saying: \u2018We apologise for offence caused by the Athena Tennis Girl poster. It is a controversial piece of poster history but we do not endorse it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Captured by Martin Elliott on a Birmingham University tennis court in 1976 \u2013 using a Nikon F1 camera and Kodak film \u2013 the image attained iconic status when it was made into an Athena poster, selling more than two million copies worldwide.<\/p>\n

At the time, Martin was an unknown 29-year-old commercial photographer.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Amateur Photographer<\/em><\/a>, in 2007,\u00a0Martin said: \u2018Technically, it\u2019s a good picture, but I had the luck of the devil with the way it turned out.’<\/p>\n

Martin died in 2010, aged 63.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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