Boasting a career best doubles world ranking and producing an amazing season, Matthew Ebden was named the 2022 WA Pro Player of the Year at the 2022 Tennis West Awards Gala held at Optus Stadium on Friday 7 October.<\/p>\n
Matthew is enjoying his highest ranking in doubles at the world No. 24. Matthew\u2019s standout performances throughout the year included a runnier up at the 2022 Australian Open and winning Wimbledon with partner Matt Purcell. Matthew also enjoyed playing in the Wimbledon mixed doubles final with Sam Stosur and making the quester finals in both the the French Open and US Open. On the ATP scene, Matthew took out two tiles at the US Men\u2019s Clay Court Championships and Winston- Salem Open.<\/p>\n
The Tennis West Awards Night, proudly presented by KC Australia us Tennis West\u2019s prestigious event that celebrates tennis in Western Australia and recognises the outstanding achievements of our state\u2019s junior and senior players, officials, coaches, administrators and volunteers. Guests on the night were also treated to a very special guest as Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley was in attendance and address the guests to provide insight on the season ahead and how tennis is thriving throughout Australia.<\/p>\n
Tennis West CEO Brett Patten<\/strong>\u00a0says the WA Tennis Awards Night is a wonderful opportunity to recognise and celebrate the sport\u2019s hard-working clubs, volunteers, coaches and players, congratulating all nominees and award winners on their achievements throughout the year.<\/p>\n \u2018Tennis in WA continues to go from strength to strength, and this wouldn\u2019t be possible without the dedication of our clubs, coaches, officials, volunteers, partner schools, local governments and players who remain committed to creating thriving tennis communities right across the state,\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThe rewards of these combined efforts are then realised through increased grassroots participation, accessible and welcoming tennis clubs, top-performing juniors who rank amongst the country\u2019s best and WA\u2019s professional players who continue to do us proud on the WTA and ATP tours,\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cNone of this is possible without the contribution of everyone involved, and our awards night ensures these wonderful individuals are celebrated and recognised accordingly,\u201d Patten said.<\/p>\n The dynamic duo of Talia Gibson and Taylah Preston took out the KC Australia Junior Player of the Year award. Both are ranked as the No. 1 female player in Australia for their respected birth years and both have had outstanding seasons.<\/p>\n Talia Gibson won 15 consecutiv3 matches to secure victory in three 15k titles in the USA and in Australia.<\/p>\n Taylah Preston has a career high world junior ranking of world No. 10 and has participated in all four Grand Slams this season.<\/p>\n Included in the Award Night formalities were three more Hall of Champions. The 2022 inductees included Gary Penberthty, Jill Bignell and Mary Collins.<\/p>\n The full list of 2022 Tennis West Awards Gala Winners<\/p>\n Karen Bucens Award<\/strong> Kent Yamazaki Award<\/strong> KC Australia Junior Tennis Star Award<\/strong> WA Pro Player of the Year<\/strong> Arthur Marshall Coaching Excellence \u2013 Club Award<\/strong> PAV Coaching Excellence \u2013 Development<\/strong> Concept Marketing Coaching Excellence- Performance<\/strong> Empire Insurance Excellence in Officiating Award<\/strong> Sportrophy Most Outstanding Club \u2013 Small<\/strong> Sportrophy Most Outstanding Club- Large<\/strong> 2021\/22 State League Champions- Men\u2019s<\/strong> 2021\/22 State League Champions- Women\u2019s<\/strong> 2021\/22 State League MVP- Men\u2019s<\/strong> 2021\/22 State League MVP- Women\u2019s<\/strong> Current Electrical Most Outstanding Media Coverage<\/strong> Most outstanding Senior (30+)<\/strong> Most Outstanding Event<\/strong> Volunteer Achievement<\/strong> Most Outstanding Inclusion<\/strong> Most Outstanding School<\/strong> Service to Tennis Award<\/strong> Dawn Hay Medal<\/strong> Tennis West would like to thank the ongoing support of our wonderful awards partners- KC Australia, Perth Audio Visual (PAV), Concept Marketing, Sportrophy Midland, Empire Insurance Group, Current Electrical Services, Good Property Services, Linneys, Tyrepower, Showscreens and Sonic Healhcare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew Ebden was named the 2022 WA Pro Player of the Year at the 2022 Tennis West Awards Gala held at Optus Stadium on Friday 7 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6343,"featured_media":18000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTalia Edgar<\/p>\n
\nJake Dembo<\/p>\n
\nTalia Gibson and Taylah Preston<\/p>\n
\nMatthew Ebden<\/p>\n
\nMatt Bull, East Fremantle Lawn Tennis Club<\/p>\n
\nPhilipp Lamprecht, Europe Tennis Academy<\/p>\n
\nBrad Dyer, Greenwood Tennis Club<\/p>\n
\nGlen Crosbie<\/p>\n
\nTom Price Tennis Club<\/p>\n
\nBlue Gum Park Tennis Club<\/p>\n
\nHensman Park Tennis Club<\/p>\n
\nHensman Park Tennis Club<\/p>\n
\nAustin Vos, Hensman Park Tennis Club<\/p>\n
\nElla Nurkic<\/p>\n
\nThe West Australian Newspaper<\/p>\n
\nPaul Moss<\/p>\n
\nTennis South West- Busselton Toyota Junior Tour<\/p>\n
\nDarryl Downing and Sonia Addis<\/p>\n
\nBlind and Low Vision Tennis<\/p>\n
\nJohn Forrest Secondary College<\/p>\n
\nLes Bairstow<\/p>\n
\nKen McIntosh<\/p>\n