{"id":2412,"date":"2011-12-14T12:51:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T02:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2011-12-14T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T02:51:55","slug":"burnie-international-is-voted-best-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2011\/12\/14\/burnie-international-is-voted-best-again","title":{"rendered":"Burnie International is voted best again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article and photo courtesy of The Advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

THE McDonalds Burnie International has won the Tennis Australia Most Outstanding Tournament award for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n

The award was announced at the annual Newcombe Medal and Tennis Australia awards gala in Melbourne on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The Burnie tournament was judged the best ahead of other finalists, the Cliffs Esperance Tennis International (WA) and the Love N Deuce North Shore Open (NSW).<\/p>\n


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TOP HONOUR: Burnie McDonalds International tennis tournament board member Rob Vernon and chairman Anthony Johnstone celebrate back-to-back wins for the Tennis Australia Most Outstanding Tournament award for the second year in a row. Picture: Katrina Dodd.<\/p><\/div>\n

The main award of the night, the Newcombe Medal was won by Samantha Stosur for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n

Junior Wimbledon champions Ashley Barty and Luke Saville were named junior players of the year, with both a strong chance to play in next year’s Burnie International.<\/p>\n

Burnie’s award was accepted by Burnie Tennis Club international committee chairman Anthony Johnstone and board member Rob Vernon.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty special for Burnie and for the Burnie Tennis Club when you are sitting in a room with 700 of tennis’ finest and called out as the best in the nation – especially when it’s for the second year in a row,” Johnstone said.<\/p>\n

Johnstone paid tribute to the work of the BTC board, international committee and club volunteers.<\/p>\n

“From ball boys to courtesy car drivers and everyone in between, they deserve this kind of reward for their efforts,” he said.<\/p>\n

Johnstone said a good example of the volunteer brigade at the BTC were the people who had the task of cleaning the courts ahead of the international.<\/p>\n

“This can take a couple of members around four hours to do a couple of courts and we have 16 of them to be done,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We once got a quote for someone to come in and do it and it works out our volunteers save the club $12,000 each year completing just this one task.”<\/p>\n

Tennis Tasmania CEO and former Burnie tournament director Mark Handley said the Burnie event continued to set the benchmark for other tournaments around Australia to aspire to.<\/p>\n

“The club does a wonderful job at delivering the event and promoting the sport,” Handley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Article and photo courtesy of The Advocate. THE McDonalds Burnie International has won the Tennis Australia Most Outstanding Tournament award for the second year in a row. The award was announced at the annual Newcombe Medal and Tennis Australia awards gala in Melbourne on Monday night. The Burnie tournament was judged the best ahead of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5905,"featured_media":2414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","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\/2412","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\/5905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}