{"id":16328,"date":"2020-06-26T13:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2020-06-26T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:35:37","slug":"1970-a-pivotal-year-quiz-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2020\/06\/26\/1970-a-pivotal-year-quiz-answers","title":{"rendered":"1970 – A Pivotal Year, Quiz Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently tested your knowledge with a quiz on\u00a0the vibrant and pivotal year of 1970 in the ACT tennis community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below are the answers<\/p>\n

1970.<\/p>\n

Q1\u00a0<\/strong>How many tennis courts and of what surfaces were in the initial National Tennis and Squash Centre complex when it opened in 1970?
\nEighteen \u2013 12 \u2018gravel\u2019 and 6 grass courts<\/em><\/p>\n

Q2<\/strong>. What was the largest club of the eighteen affiliated clubs (registered players) in 1970?
\nNorth Woden with 541 registered players<\/em><\/p>\n

Q3<\/strong>. Which club was the most successful in adult pennants in 1970?
\nTurner with 5 pennants, although North Woden won 7 of the 12 junior pennants.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q4<\/strong>. Which top ranked ACT player won the Public Service Men\u2019s Singles (Broinowski Cup), Men\u2019s ACT Resident Singles and ACT Open Men\u2019s Singles in 1970?
\nBruce Larkham<\/em><\/p>\n

Q5<\/strong>. What were the first tennis Championships held at the new National Tennis and Squash Centre over the October long weekend in 1970, with a record number of entries of 537?
\nThe 1970 ACT Open Tennis Championships<\/em><\/p>\n

Q6<\/strong>. What was granted in 1970 (following an appeal to the Supreme Court) which helped get the NTSC off to a sound financial start?
\nA full liquor licence<\/em><\/p>\n

Q7<\/strong>. Who was the top ranked ACT girl player and Junior Girls Singles Champion in 1970 (she is now an Australian Seniors Representative)?
\nSusan Willis<\/em><\/p>\n

Q8<\/strong>. Who was awarded Life Membership of the ACTLTA at the AGM in December,1970?
\nKen Willis<\/em><\/p>\n

Q9<\/strong>. Who was the top ranked ACT women\u2019s player in 1970 \u2013 winning the ACT Resident Women\u2019s Singles and Doubles (with Alison Ide) and the ACT Open Mixed Doubles (with Geoff Pollard)?
\nPat MacNicol<\/em><\/p>\n

Q10<\/strong>. What are the two famous family names, synonymous with tennis in the local region from the late 1880s, building and living in the \u2018old\u2019 Canberra Inn on the old Yass Road, (across from the NTSC) up until 1974?
\nSchumack and Read. Originally built by Joseph Schumack in 1857 the Read family bought the Inn and used it as their family home called \u2018The Pines\u2019 until 1974. Tennis courts on the property were used by the original Ainslie Club and The Pines Club in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Pines playing in Canberra pennants up until the 1930s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q11<\/strong>. Which future Australian Open winner (also previously coached by Charlie Hollis) won the Under 17 ACT Junior Open Singles in 1970?
\nMark Edmondson<\/em><\/p>\n

Q12<\/strong>. Who were the NTSC architects, one a foundation member of the Centre, who Ken Willis said \u2018saved the Association a small fortune by providing their professional services for free\u2018?
\nBill Batt and Don McLagan<\/em><\/p>\n

Q13<\/strong>. The opening of the NTSC on 12 September,1970 included five Australian tennis \u2018Stars of Yesteryear\u2019. Who were they?
\nDinny Pails, Geoff Brown, Adrian Quist, Neale Fraser and Mal Anderson (noting that Heather Mackay was one of eight squash champions also invited).\u00a0 Quist and Brown are both picture in the photo above.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q14<\/strong>. What was the name of the Shield presented to the winning boys team in the A1 Junior Pennant Competition, and which team won the Shield in 1970?
\nThe Sir Valston Hancock Shield won by North Woden 1. (Sir Valston was a former Sword of Honour Duntroon Graduate and Chief of the Air Staff, located in the new Russell Defence Complex in the 1960s. A keen tennis player he was Patron of the ACTLTA during the mid – 1960s).<\/em><\/p>\n

Q15<\/strong>. What innovation was introduced in Australia by Slazenger in 1970, but not adopted in Canberra for official competition, until 1971?
\nIn September 1970 Slazenger (Aust) Ltd. introduced yellow tennis balls.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently tested your knowledge with a quiz on\u00a0the vibrant and pivotal year of 1970 in the ACT tennis community. Below are the answers 1970. Q1\u00a0How many tennis courts and of what surfaces were in the initial National Tennis and Squash Centre complex when it opened in 1970? Eighteen \u2013 12 \u2018gravel\u2019 and 6 grass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":16331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}