{"id":8640,"date":"2025-08-11T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:54:09","slug":"evonne-goolagong-cawley-national-indigenous-tennis-carnival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2025\/08\/11\/evonne-goolagong-cawley-national-indigenous-tennis-carnival-2025","title":{"rendered":"Evonne Goolagong Cawley Inspires the Next Generation of First Nations Tennis Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley with her Evonne Goolagong Foundation has again worked with Tennis Australia and Tennis NT to make the National Indigenous Tennis Carnival &#8220;NITC&#8221; a unique sporting event in Australia and globally.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that makes this event really special is that is brings together tennis at 3 levels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>beginners &amp; intermediate players in the team-based <strong>Hot Shots stream<\/strong>;<\/li>\n<li>emerging players in the team-based <strong>Future Stars stream;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>the top First Nations players nationally, <strong>Showdown stream.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>National Indigenous Tennis Carnival 2025 results <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>18-and-under singles championships <\/strong><br \/>\nGirls: [2] Lola Grigor (Vic) d Laylah Shawcross (Qld) 6-1 6-1<br \/>\nBoys: [1] Quincy Khan (NSW) d [2] Isaac Elson (NSW) 1-6 6-4 [10-4]<\/p>\n<p><strong>14-and-under singles championships <\/strong><br \/>\nGirls: [1] Hazel Wright (NSW<strong>) <\/strong>d [2] Namallarri Mckenzie (SA) 6-2 6-0<br \/>\nBoys: [1] Will Brooks-Gay (Vic) d Oakley Baylis (NSW) 6-1 6-2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadly Award winners <\/strong>\u2013 recognises participants from each state and territory for their teamwork and behaviour<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jayde Mitchell (ACT)<\/li>\n<li>Hazel Wright (NSW)<\/li>\n<li>Luca Toby (Qld)<\/li>\n<li>Jamain Agius (SA)<\/li>\n<li>Tori Direen (Tas)<\/li>\n<li>Brock Mitchell (Vic)<\/li>\n<li>Jackson Phillips (WA)<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Groves (NT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Roger Cawley Supervisors Award <\/strong>\u2013 recognises team managers who supervise, support and coach the kids<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sara Mohammed (WA)<\/li>\n<li>Djamika Ganambarr (NT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Evonne Goolagong Cawley Medal of Excellence <\/strong>\u2013 individual award personally chosen by Evonne Goolagong Cawley<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isaac Elson (NSW)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ash Barty Cup <\/strong>\u2013 team-based award for the overall winning team based on performance<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queensland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hot Shots Tennis champions <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>East Arnhem (NT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Futures Stars champions <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New South Wales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Evonne Goolagong Cawley with her Evonne Goolagong Foundation has again worked with Tennis Australia and Tennis NT to make the National Indigenous Tennis Carnival &#8220;NITC&#8221; a unique sporting event in Australia and globally. One of the things that makes this event really special is that is brings together tennis at 3 levels: beginners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6380,"featured_media":8661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}