{"id":6272,"date":"2010-12-13T14:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T04:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/?p=414"},"modified":"2010-12-13T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T04:15:32","slug":"burnie-international-receives-2010-most-outstanding-tournament-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/news\/2010\/12\/13\/burnie-international-receives-2010-most-outstanding-tournament-award","title":{"rendered":"Burnie International Receives 2010 Most Outstanding Tournament Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Burnie International<\/strong> has received the 2010 Most Outstanding Tournament Award<\/strong> at the\u00a0 inaugural black tie Newcombe Medal, Australian Tennis Awards<\/strong> in Melbourne last Friday night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The other finalists in this Award category were Cliffs Esperance International <\/strong>(WA) and Cairns International Pro Tour <\/strong>(QLD).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthony Johnstone<\/strong> of the Burnie International had the honour of accepting the Australian Tennis Award from tennis great and CEO of the International Group of the ATP, Brad Drewett.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is great recognition of all the hard work the club has put in over the past 10 years,\u201d Johnstone said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been running a Futures tournament for a few years and then we put on Challenger tournament, which we\u2019ve been running for the past seven to eight years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Award will give recognition to the volunteers and the hard work they have put in.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nominations for this prestigious award were received over a three week period from 15 October 2010 to 5 November 2010, with finalists, and the eventual winner, selected through rigorous process with specific eligibility and selection criteria.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Newcombe Medal is the premier award on a night that recognises service to tennis at all levels – club, coaches, players, volunteers, community and officials.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The inaugural Newcombe Medal<\/strong> was presented to Australia\u2019s most outstanding elite player, Samantha Stosur<\/strong>, current world No. 6, in recognition of the achievements of Australian tennis legend John Newcombe<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is a great honour,\u201d Stosur said.\u00a0 \u201cIt is a really good initiative of Tennis Australia to put a night like this together for everyone to celebrate our sport. So to be the first winner of the Newcombe Medal is very special.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTennis is such a huge part of our culture in Australia, we\u2019ve obviously got a great history and we\u2019re trying to continue that now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can only have that with clubs around the nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think for them to get the recognition for doing their best – putting in new courts, updating facilities, and having members and getting people out there playing is fantastic and getting recognition for that will help them strive and do more and do whatever they can.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The winners for the 14 Award categories are as follows:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coaching Excellence \u2013 Club
\n<\/em>Brett Lennard<\/strong>, ACT\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coaching Excellence \u2013 High Performance
\n<\/em>David Taylor<\/strong>, NSW\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coaching Excellence \u2013 MLC Tennis Hot Shots
\n<\/em>Matthew Bull<\/strong>, WA\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Excellence in Officiating
\n<\/em>Kerrilyn Cramer<\/strong>, Vic\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Junior Athlete of the Year (Female)
\n<\/em>Ashleigh Barty<\/strong>, QLD\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Junior Athlete of the Year (Male)
\n<\/em>Bernard Tomic<\/strong>, QLD\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most Outstanding 35+ Tennis Senior
\n<\/em>Andrew Rae<\/strong>, Vic\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability
\n<\/em>Daniela di Toro<\/strong>, Vic\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most Outstanding Club
\n<\/em>Gove Peninsula Tennis Club<\/strong>, NT\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most Outstanding Tennis Community
\n<\/em>Kendall Tennis Club<\/strong>, NSW\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most Outstanding Tournament
\n<\/em>Burnie International<\/strong>, TAS\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Volunteer Achievement Award
\n<\/em>Ross and Allen Smythe<\/strong>, QLD <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Spirit of Tennis Award
\n<\/em>Peter Luczak<\/strong>, Vic\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newcombe Medal
\n<\/em>Samantha Stosur, <\/strong>QLD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Burnie International has received the 2010 Most Outstanding Tournament Award at the\u00a0 inaugural black tie Newcombe Medal, Australian Tennis Awards in Melbourne last Friday night.\u00a0\u00a0 The other finalists in this Award category were Cliffs Esperance International (WA) and Cairns International Pro Tour (QLD).\u00a0\u00a0 Anthony Johnstone of the Burnie International had the honour of accepting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272","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=6272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}