{"id":34722,"date":"2026-06-11T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=34722"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:30:31","slug":"finalists-announced-for-the-2026-tennis-sa-awards-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2026\/06\/11\/finalists-announced-for-the-2026-tennis-sa-awards-night","title":{"rendered":"Finalists Announced for the 2026 Tennis SA Awards Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Held on Saturday 4 July at the Adelaide Convention Centre \u2013 Panorama Ballroom, the Tennis SA Awards Night will celebrate and recognise players, coaches, clubs, communities, volunteers and officials for their service to the sport in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trybooking.com%2FDMEJS&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccharlotte.taft%40tennis.com.au%7C4c847154f7394e95377808dec6bc2f05%7C61aa9c8da7734a7c84701dd8062e404a%7C0%7C0%7C639166708699641111%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DQeZ9%2BwB6LqZ%2BlMJWqe%2FrBnaq5xzB%2F7gZlc7GintY3s%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Book your tickets now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations to our finalists for 2026:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding 30+ Tennis Senior<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Richards<\/li>\n<li>Gail Cannon<\/li>\n<li>Gloria Dennis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Inclusion Initiative<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Craig Palfrey Wheelchair Tennis Program<\/li>\n<li>SA BLV Tennis Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethan Cook<\/li>\n<li>Mark Haskett<\/li>\n<li>Reuban Fairbank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Excellence in Officiating<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roger Gonzalez<\/li>\n<li>Casey Jackson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Club-based Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Playford Internal League<\/li>\n<li>Littlehampton Tennis Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucindale 60<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Easter Tournament<\/li>\n<li>JDS CBC Seacliff #1<\/li>\n<li>025 03K J124 CBC Green Just 4 Tennis New Years Open<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding School<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prescott Primary School<\/li>\n<li>Maitland Lutheran School<\/li>\n<li>Prince Alfred College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Coach \u2013 Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Craig Palfrey<\/li>\n<li>Stefan &amp; Saskia Rice-Schaffler (Joint nomination)<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Boots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Coach \u2013 Rural<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sam Clayson<\/li>\n<li>Nadia Kruger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Volunteer Achievement Award \u2013 City\/Hills<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma Jones<\/li>\n<li>Kym Morgan &amp; Liz Hearn (joint nomination)<\/li>\n<li>Barbara Le Cornu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Volunteer Achievement Award \u2013 Rural<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kate Wandel<\/li>\n<li>Jessica Sammons<\/li>\n<li>Micaela Baker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Tennis Club \u2013 City\/Hills<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tea Tree Gully Tennis Club<\/li>\n<li>Enfield Tennis Club<\/li>\n<li>Sturt Lawn Tennis Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Tennis Club \u2013 Rural<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mt Gambier Tennis Club<\/li>\n<li>Blyth Tennis Club<\/li>\n<li>Strathalbyn Tennis Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners of the following awards will also be announced on the night:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Coach \u2013 Development<\/p>\n<p>Doris Boyce Medal (best and fairest female tennis player)<\/p>\n<p>Ray Burr Medal (best and fairest male tennis player)<\/p>\n<p>Gwen Thiele Memorial Trophy (best 18\/u female tennis player)<\/p>\n<p>Don Turnbull Trophy (best 18\/u male tennis player)<\/p>\n<p>Most Outstanding Council or Government Department<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tennis SA State League and Metro League premiership winners and award winners will be presented on the night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: Saturday 4 July 2026<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre l The Panaroma Ballroom<\/p>\n<p>Time: 6:00 pm arrivals, 6:30 pm start<\/p>\n<p>Dress: Formal<\/p>\n<p>Tickets include three course meal, four-hour beverage package and entertainment<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Single ticket \u2013 $140<\/p>\n<p>Table of 10 \u2013 $1300 per table of 10<\/p>\n<p>Under 18 single ticket \u2013 $110<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tennis.com.au%2Fsa%2Fnews-and-events%2Fevents%2Ftennis-sa-awards&amp;data=05%7C02%7Ccharlotte.taft%40tennis.com.au%7C4c847154f7394e95377808dec6bc2f05%7C61aa9c8da7734a7c84701dd8062e404a%7C0%7C0%7C639166708699661416%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=3pxp3dr1mLOF48KCu1O%2FjHjKemytZeMVPe32a54m4p4%3D&amp;reserved=0\">CLICK HERE<\/a>\u00a0for more information about the 2026 Tennis SA Awards<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held on Saturday 4 July at the Adelaide Convention Centre \u2013 Panorama Ballroom, the Tennis SA Awards Night will celebrate and recognise players, coaches, clubs, communities, volunteers and officials for their service to the sport in South Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722","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\/6443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}