{"id":235,"date":"2015-08-20T10:58:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:11:36","slug":"victorianspiritoftennis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/recognition\/victorianspiritoftennis","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Spirit of Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Formerly known as the Victorian Centenary of Tennis Award, renamed the Victorian Spirit of Tennis in 2011, this award recognises a person who has made a significant and valuable contribution to the advancement or popularity of the sport in any field, such as journalism, media, tournament management, general management at a national or state level, international management, supporting, coaching or playing. The recipient must have been born in Victoria or lived the majority of their life as a Victorian resident.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Honour Roll<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nRecipients<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1980<\/td>\nFrank Sedgman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nNeale Fraser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1982<\/td>\nBrian Tobin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/td>\nJim Entink<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1984<\/td>\nJudy Dalton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985<\/td>\nMargaret Court<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1986<\/td>\nPaul McNamee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1987<\/td>\nPat Cash<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1988<\/td>\nColin McDonald<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1989<\/td>\nPeter McNamara<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\nDr John Fraser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/td>\nAlan Trengove<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nKevin Howard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993<\/td>\nAnne Minter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nIan Occleshaw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nNicole Bradtke<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nGeoff Kerr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>\nAllan Stone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nBeverley Rae<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>\nJack May<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000<\/td>\nKevin Bolton OAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\nTony Ryan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/td>\nJim Reid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nPeter Bellenger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nMax Atkins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nJim Sheppard<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nEric Campbell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nWayne Arthurs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nHamish MacMillan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nFran Graham<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nBrian Grace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011\/12<\/td>\nIan Barclay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012\/13<\/td>\nColin Stubs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013\/14<\/td>\nDaniela Di Toro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014\/15<\/td>\nPatricia Gilchrist & Carol Pearce<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015\/16<\/td>\nCedric Mason<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016\/17<\/td>\nJohn Cain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017\/18<\/td>\nThe Peers Family
Bill, Elizabeth, John & Sally<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018\/19<\/td>\nNorm Cahill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019\/20<\/td>\nNOT AWARDED<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020\/21<\/td>\nMaurice Gleeson OAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021\/22<\/td>\nDylan Alcott OAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022\/23<\/td>\nJulie Fidler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023\/24<\/td>\nSusie Norton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/25<\/td>\nSusie Grumley<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024\/25<\/td>\nJohn McCurdy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Formerly known as the Victorian Centenary of Tennis Award, renamed the Victorian Spirit of Tennis in 2011, this award recognises a person who has made a significant and valuable contribution to the advancement or popularity of the sport in any field, such as journalism, media, tournament management, general management at a national or state level, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":0,"parent":213,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-modules.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/235\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}