{"id":27431,"date":"2025-10-17T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=27431"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:43:25","slug":"congratulations-to-our-2025-tennis-nsw-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/congratulations-to-our-2025-tennis-nsw-award-winners","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our 2025 Tennis NSW Award winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night, Tennis NSW hosted the 2025 Tennis NSW Awards ceremony, recognising and celebrating the outstanding contributions of members and stakeholders across the NSW tennis community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grand Slam champions Casey Dellacqua and John Fitzgerald co-hosted this special evening, joined by Paralympic legend David Hall as our Guest of Honour. Together, these three tennis greats took part in a live Q&amp;A, reflecting on the 25th anniversary of David\u2019s historic gold medal win at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. David also shared insights from his newly released autobiography,\u00a0Superbeast,\u00a0a raw and inspiring story of resilience, triumph, and life beyond the court.<\/p>\n<p>We also took a moment to celebrate the incredible achievements of our NSW tennis community throughout 2025. From inspiring grassroots moments to outstanding performances on the world stage, this year truly had it all. Watch the 2025 Highlights Video to relive these unforgettable moments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025 Highlights Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U82lWQyWaf8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our 2025 Tennis NSW Award winners!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2025 AWARD WINNERS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NSW Player of the Year |\u202f<strong>Alex de Minaur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Junior Athlete of the Year \u2013 Female |\u202f<strong>Renee Alame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Junior Athlete of the Year \u2013 Male |\u202f<strong>Cruz Hewitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Young Athlete with a Disability | <strong>Savannah Auvva<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability |\u202f<strong>Anderson Parker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding 30+ Tennis Master |<strong>\u202fLeanne Swaysland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Young Volunteer Achievement |<strong>\u202fKai Ryan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Achievement |\u202f<strong>Kirsty Cole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding School\u202f| <strong>Forbes Public School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Tournament |\u202f<strong>2024 Premier $10k Manly Seaside<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coaching Excellence \u2013 Club |\u202f<strong>Dane Propoggia, Voyager Concord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coaching Excellence \u2013 Development |\u202f<strong>Shaun Hibbert Tennis Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excellence in Venue Operations |<strong>\u202fEvolve Tennis Academy\u202f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Fletcher Award \u2013 Excellence in Officiating |\u202f<strong>Margaret Sheean<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spirit of Officiating Award |\u202f<strong>Ian Tennant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Growth Initiative | <strong>Narromine Tennis Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Tennis Club or Venue \u2013 Country |\u202f<strong>Alstonville Tennis &amp; Pickleball Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Tennis Club or Venue \u2013 Metro | <strong>Collaroy Tennis Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tony Podesta Most Outstanding Inclusion Initiative | <strong>Bathurst Tennis Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim O\u2019Neill Service to Tennis |\u202f<strong>Lesley Pascoe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations once again to all of our outstanding Award recipients and finalists. Your dedication, hard work, and contributions over the past 12 months have made a lasting impact on the NSW tennis community \u2013 thank you!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-27371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2025\/09\/2025-Award-Sponosrs_EDM-Tile-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2025\/09\/2025-Award-Sponosrs_EDM-Tile-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2025\/09\/2025-Award-Sponosrs_EDM-Tile-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2025\/09\/2025-Award-Sponosrs_EDM-Tile.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, Tennis NSW hosted the 2025 Tennis NSW Awards ceremony, recognising and celebrating the outstanding contributions of members and stakeholders across the NSW tennis community.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6323,"featured_media":27438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}