{"id":12487,"date":"2025-09-24T11:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=12487"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:20:15","slug":"tasmanian-tennis-community-shines-at-2025-awards-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2025\/09\/24\/tasmanian-tennis-community-shines-at-2025-awards-night","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Tennis Community Shines at 2025 Awards Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p data-start=\"127\" data-end=\"314\">The Tasmanian tennis community came together on Saturday 20 September for a night of celebration, recognising excellence both on and off the court at the annual Tasmanian Tennis Awards.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"552\">Hosted at the stunning Glen Albyn Estate in Hobart, the event welcomed a record crowd of 145 guests. A highlight of the evening was the attendance of special guest Daria Saville, whose presence added to the excitement of the occasion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"723\">The night celebrated the achievements of players, coaches, clubs, schools, volunteers and officials who have made significant contributions to tennis across the state.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"725\" data-end=\"808\">Congratulations were extended to all finalists and winners across the categories:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"1519\">\n<li data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"862\">\n<p data-start=\"812\" data-end=\"862\"><strong data-start=\"812\" data-end=\"837\">Most Outstanding Club<\/strong> \u2013 Kingston Tennis Club<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"907\">\n<p data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"907\"><strong data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"892\">Coach Excellence (Club)<\/strong> \u2013 Pip Martin<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"963\">\n<p data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"963\"><strong data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"944\">Coach Excellence (Development)<\/strong> \u2013 Jason Fletcher<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"964\" data-end=\"1030\">\n<p data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"1030\"><strong data-start=\"966\" data-end=\"1011\">Most Outstanding Player with a Disability<\/strong> \u2013 Ross Patterson<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1031\" data-end=\"1093\">\n<p data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1093\"><strong data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1059\">Most Outstanding Event<\/strong> \u2013 North vs North West Challenge<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1164\">\n<p data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1164\"><strong data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1137\">Most Outstanding Inclusion Initiative<\/strong> \u2013 Hobart Out Tennis Club<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1165\" data-end=\"1223\">\n<p data-start=\"1167\" data-end=\"1223\"><strong data-start=\"1167\" data-end=\"1203\">Junior Athlete of the Year (Boy)<\/strong> \u2013 Charlie Marsden<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1300\">\n<p data-start=\"1226\" data-end=\"1300\"><strong data-start=\"1226\" data-end=\"1263\">Junior Athlete of the Year (Girl)<\/strong> \u2013 Alicia Dale and Escher Case-Boag<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1301\" data-end=\"1348\">\n<p data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1348\"><strong data-start=\"1303\" data-end=\"1332\">Excellence in Officiating<\/strong> \u2013 Sam Gleeson<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1408\">\n<p data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1408\"><strong data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1378\">Most Outstanding School<\/strong> \u2013 Launceston Church Grammar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1460\">\n<p data-start=\"1411\" data-end=\"1460\"><strong data-start=\"1411\" data-end=\"1442\">Most Outstanding Senior 30+<\/strong> \u2013 Stephen Dance<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1461\" data-end=\"1519\">\n<p data-start=\"1463\" data-end=\"1519\"><strong data-start=\"1463\" data-end=\"1494\">Volunteer Achievement Award<\/strong> \u2013 Helen Courtney-Pratt<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A full list of finalists can here found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2025\/09\/15\/12483\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tasmanian tennis community came together on Saturday 20 September for a night of celebration, recognising excellence both on and off the court at the annual Tasmanian Tennis Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6412,"featured_media":12488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}