{"id":21667,"date":"2020-12-03T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=21667"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:07:08","slug":"a-fitting-farewell-for-two-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2020\/12\/03\/a-fitting-farewell-for-two-greats","title":{"rendered":"A fitting farewell for two greats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday 14 November, a testimonial dinner was held for <strong>Angus Thomson OAM<\/strong> and<strong> Jan Walczak<\/strong>, two of SA\u2019s most respected officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were pleased that many people got to attend the dinner at the Caledonian Hotel, North Adelaide to celebrate the amazing work of both Angus and Jan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will be sorely missed and we thank them for their unwavering service to the game of tennis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Angus Thomson OAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Life\nmember of Tennis SA<\/li><li>Official\nfor 16 years: Court Supervisor, Referee and Educator<\/li><li>Aged\n88 years old when worked for the last time as an official<\/li><li>Tennis\njourney began a long time ago (I should have asked Angus exactly when, no-one\nelse can verify the year!)<\/li><li>Angus\nquickly became one of SA\u2019s leading coaches and coached and Tournament Directed\nfor many, many years<\/li><li>Transitioned\nfrom coaching into officiating and maintained Tournament Directing until 2018<\/li><li>A\ndraws and scheduling guru and a natural at using Tournament Planner!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jan Walczak<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Official for 19 years: Line Umpire, Court Supervisor, Educator, Mentor and ITF Referee<\/li><li>Line Umpire at AO Finals including on Service Line<\/li><li>Trained many officials in SA and NT<\/li><li>Involved in tennis since 1953 including player, coach, school tennis coach\/chaperone, internationally ranked on ITF seniors tour<\/li><li>Extremely respected and liked by players ranging from junior beginners up to highly ranked professionals<\/li><li>Regular joke teller to kids and adults alike<\/li><li>After finishing line umpiring continued to Referee\/officiate at schools events in a voluntary capacity<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 14 November, a testimonial dinner was held for Angus Thomson OWM and Jan Walczak, two of SA\u2019s most respected officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6238,"featured_media":21673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}