{"id":33824,"date":"2023-09-26T05:15:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=33824"},"modified":"2023-10-17T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:22:18","slug":"victorian-tennis-awards-finalists-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/09\/26\/victorian-tennis-awards-finalists-for-2023","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Tennis Awards Finalists for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tennis Victoria are proud to announce the finalists for the\u00a02023 Victorian Tennis Awards, to be held at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club on Tuesday 17 October 2023.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis Victoria CEO, Adam Crameri<\/strong>\u00a0is looking forward to recognising the incredible efforts of the Victorian tennis community across the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell done to all of the 2023 finalists for the Victorian Tennis Awards. We take great pride in celebrating and recognising the achievements of the Victorian Tennis Community each year, and the calibre of this years finalists is outstanding. Congratulations to all finalists and we look forward to celebrating you all in October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the Victorian Tennis Awards are eligible to be nominated (in some categories) for the Australian Tennis Awards (the Newcombe Medal).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Victorian Spirit of Tennis Award<\/strong>\u00a0will also be announced on the night.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Congratulations to the 2023 finalists:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>After a nominations process, selection panels then chose the finalists across the following 13 award categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Club or Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fawkner Tennis Club<\/li>\n<li>Hume Tennis &amp; Community Centre<\/li>\n<li>Viewbank Tennis Club<\/li>\n<li>Yarrawonga Lawn Tennis Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Coaching Excellence \u2013 Club or Centre\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Connelly &#8211; Complete Tennis Services<\/li>\n<li>Tina Keown &#8211; Victorian Tennis Academy<\/li>\n<li>Vicky Lee &#8211; Slamin Tennis and Fitness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Coaching Excellence \u2013 Development\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron Leeder-Chard &#8211; ALC Tennis Academy<\/li>\n<li>Adrian Lombardi &#8211; Millenium Tennis Academy<\/li>\n<li>Marc Sophoulis &#8211; Melbourne International Tennis School<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Volunteer Achievement<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelle Camilleri (Hillside TC)<\/li>\n<li>Hayden Eastwood (Castlemaine LTC)<\/li>\n<li>Jason Tournier (Bannockburn TC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Supporting Tennis \u2013 Local Government Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mornington Peninsula Shire<\/li>\n<li>Wellington Shire Council<\/li>\n<li>Wyndham City Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>99th Annual Easter Tournament Shepparton<\/li>\n<li>2023 Open 3K ALCTA Easter Open<\/li>\n<li>Australian Seniors Individual Championships<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding School\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christ the Priest Catholic PS<\/li>\n<li>Lalor Secondary College<\/li>\n<li>Maribyrnong College<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Inclusion Initiative\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advantage Autism &#8211; The Au-Tastic Tennis Program (Doncaster TC)<\/li>\n<li>All Abilities Program (Ferntree Gully TC)<\/li>\n<li>South Gisborne TC All Abilities Tennis Challenge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding 30+ Tennis Master\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glenn Busby<\/li>\n<li>Rosemary Everett<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Hill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heath Davidson<\/li>\n<li>Ross Patterson<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Vadnjal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Junior Athlete of the Year \u2013 Male\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Jovanovski<\/li>\n<li>Lachlan King<\/li>\n<li>Jenson Yokota-Ho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Junior Athlete of the Year \u2013 Female\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isabella Crossman<\/li>\n<li>Roisin Gilheany<\/li>\n<li>Steffi Webb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Excellence in Officiating<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Akshat Chopra<\/li>\n<li>Quincy Davis<\/li>\n<li>Max Fisher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Event Information:<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>2023 Victorian Tennis Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Tuesday 17 October<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a07:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club<\/p>\n<p>Purchase a ticket via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com.au\/e\/2023-victorian-tennis-awards-tickets-698769697977\">Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis Victoria are proud to announce the finalists for the 2023 Victorian Tennis Awards, to be held at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club on Tuesday 17 October 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6373,"featured_media":33919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}