Australian tennis legend Neale Fraser will attend the 2019 Tasmanian Tennis Awards.<\/p>\n
Fraser won 19 Grand Slam titles during his stellar career – including the Wimbledon singles title in 1960 and consecutive US Open singles titles in 1959-60. He won a career Grand Slam in men’s doubles, collecting 11 major titles in total.<\/p>\n
Fraser became Australia’s Davis Cup captain in 1970 – a position he held for a record 24 years. He guided Australia to four titles during this time.<\/p>\n
Elected into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1984, the 85-year-old Melbourne-based Fraser still remains involved in the game as an ambassador with Tennis Australia.<\/p>\n
Fraser will share stories from his career during the awards presentation evening at the Tonic Bar at Launceston’s Country Club Tasmania on Saturday 31 August.<\/p>\n
“The Tasmanian Tennis Awards are a chance to celebrate the outstanding clubs, schools, individuals, coaches, officials and hard-working volunteers that are the heart of our Tasmanian tennis community,” says Tennis Tasmania General Manager Darren Sturgess.<\/p>\n
“With participation numbers across the state continuing to rise – up 15 per cent year-on-year, we have much to be excited about.\u00a0To have Neale Fraser – a legend of Australian tennis – joining the celebrations makes it extra special. We can’t wait to hear his insights and stories from a career that spans an incredible 70 plus years.”<\/p>\n
A weekend-long celebration of the Tasmanian Tennis Awards also includes the Tennis Tasmania annual general meeting, club workshops and social play opportunities.<\/p>\n
Tickets are still available for the awards presentation evening, with $70 adult tickets including dinner and drink upon arrival. Group bookings made before 16 August go in a draw to win a Hobart International 2020 hospitality package. Book online<\/a> or call (03)\u00a06108 8205 to secure a place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian tennis legend Neale Fraser is the special guest speaker at the 2019 Tasmanian Tennis Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6028,"featured_media":8912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,78,208,73,116],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-awards","tag-launceston","tag-neale-fraser","tag-news","tag-tasmanian-tennis-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","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\/6028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}