{"id":18619,"date":"2018-03-29T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=18619"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:30:31","slug":"tennis-community-in-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2018\/03\/29\/tennis-community-in-mourning","title":{"rendered":"Tennis community in mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The district tennis community is in mourning after the sudden death of Cohuna stalwart, Greg Rodwell on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Rodwell, 64, collapsed a short time after his Division One\u00a0team won the Northern District Lawn Tennis Association premiership at Barham. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.<\/span><\/p>\n

His wife, Mary, another committed tennis player and official, was also a member of the premiership team.<\/span><\/p>\n

NDLTA chairman, Wayne Hall led tributes, saying that tennis was one of Mr Rodwell’s great loves.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Greg has always played with his heart on his sleeve and Saturday was no different,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“He was out there playing Division One\u00a0for Cohuna and assisted them in winning the grand final and the prestigious Division One flag.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Rodwell was involved in three hard-fought men’s doubles matches, winning all three, before losing a mixed doubles game as Cohuna went on to win by 11 games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He was a Cohuna resident for 28 years. He and his wife, Mary have operated a financial consultancy firm, G.C. and M.L. Rodwell’s Consultancy, for the past 25 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A passionate tennis player, Mr Rodwell had been involved with both the Cohuna Lawn Tennis Club and the Northern District Lawn Tennis Association since residing in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was a board member of each association, and was secretary and president of both for multiple terms, as well as being a board member for both, and he was a key organiser of the Easter tournament at Cohuna for 19 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Rodwell was also a Victorian Country Tennis Association representative, referee, and committee member.<\/span><\/p>\n

He represented Cohuna and Pyramid Hill in Division One inter-town tournaments, inter-regional tournaments, and won Victorian Country Week tennis tournaments.<\/span><\/p>\n

He won 12 premierships in Division One\u00a0and he has been the club singles champion nine times.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also represented Cohuna at NDTLA championships and won singles, doubles and mixed titles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Rodwell was awarded life membership of the Cohuna Lawn Tennis Club in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other projects included running the Cohuna junior tournament. Training young tennis players was a particular joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

He shared his experience and knowledge as a junior players coach every Saturday morning from 1992 until last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

His daughter, Michelle said yesterday that he gained immense satisfaction from seeing young talent develop and helping them move up in their tennis careers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Rodwell could be relied upon for anything that needed doing around the club and organised working bees to ensure everything was up to scratch, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

A proud and loving grandfather of five, Mr Rodwell was able to see his eldest grandson start playing competition tennis this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Rodwell is survived by his wife Mary, and their three children, Travis, Michelle and step-son Darren.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Article written by JessieAnne Gartlan of the\u00a0Gannawarra Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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