{"id":19500,"date":"2024-05-08T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19500"},"modified":"2024-05-08T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:41:12","slug":"ebden-and-hunter-take-home-top-wa-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/05\/08\/ebden-and-hunter-take-home-top-wa-honours","title":{"rendered":"Ebden and Hunter Take Home Top WA Honours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boasting both a career best doubles world ranking and producing an amazing season, Matthew Ebden and Storm Hunter were named the 2023 WA Pro Player of the Year at the 2024 Tennis West Awards Night.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Tennis West Awards Night, proudly presented by KC Australia is Tennis West’s prestigious event that celebrated and recognised\u00a0 the outstanding achievements of our state\u2019s junior and senior players, clubs, coaches, schools, volunteers, officials and administrators of our sport.<\/p>\n

In career best form, Matt Ebden<\/strong> achieved one of his best seasons, reaching number 1 in the world doubles ranking with several standout performances throughout the last 18 months.<\/p>\n

In 2023 Ebden won his maiden Master title winning the 2023 Indian Wells and went onto reach the finals of two other Masters 1000 events in Shanghai and Paris Masters events.<\/p>\n

In 2024 Matt won his first Australian Open Doubles title with partner Robin Bopanna which propelled him to world number 1.<\/p>\n

Storm Hunter<\/strong> ended the 2023 season as the World Number 1 in doubles and achieved a career best singles ranking of 114 in the world.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Hunter reached back-to-back quarterfinals at the Australian Open in doubles and won her second WTA 1000 title partnering with Elise Mertens.<\/p>\n

Hunter has had a wonderful singles run qualifying for the main draw at Roland Garros, Wimbledon and making the third round at the 2024 Australian Open.<\/p>\n

At the 2023 WTA Finals Hunter reached the semifinals which propelled her to World Number 1 in Doubles.<\/p>\n

Another highlight of the night included the induction of Casey Dellacqua<\/strong> as the 12th inductee to the Tennis West Hall of Champions in front of her friends and family.<\/p>\n

All photos from the Tennis West Awards Night can be found here.<\/a>\u00a0(Credit Ingofoto if using on social media)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The full list of the 2023\/24 Tennis West Awards winners:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Perth Audio Visual Coaching Excellence \u2013 Development\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Connelly<\/p>\n

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Perth Audio Visual Coaching Excellence \u2013 Performance\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brad Dyer<\/p>\n

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Arthur Marshall Coaching Excellence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Gill<\/p>\n

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KC Australia Volunteer Achievement Award\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steve Burdett<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sportrophy Outstanding Club \u2013 Large\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

UWA Tennis Club<\/p>\n

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Sportrophy Outstanding Club \u2013 Small\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Condingup Tennis Club<\/p>\n

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Excellence in Officiating\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natalie Dellamarta<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dawn Hay Medal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ken McIntosh<\/p>\n

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Healthway Outstanding Competitive Play Event\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023 O3K J125 WA State Open Grass and Junior Hardcourt<\/p>\n

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Outstanding School\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wesley College<\/p>\n

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Outstanding Inclusion Initiative\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tennis 4 All South Mandurah Tennis Club<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

30+ Tennis Senior\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marlene Howes<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Current Electrical \u2013 Service to Tennis\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colin Lorrimar<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Karen Bucens Award\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Riana\u00a0 Tan<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kent Yamazaki Award\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sam Mitchell<\/p>\n

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KC Australia Junior Tennis Star \u2013 Male\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jake Dembo<\/p>\n

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KC Australia Junior Tennis Star \u2013 Female\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alice Stevens<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

State League Male MVP\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Will Hann<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

State League Female MVP\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anja Dokic<\/p>\n

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Hall of Champion\u00a0Inductee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Casey Dellacqua<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pro Player of the Year\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Storm Hunter<\/p>\n

Matt Ebden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boasting both a career best doubles world ranking and producing an amazing season, Matthew Ebden and Storm Hunter were named the 2023 WA Pro Player of the Year at the 2024 Tennis West Awards Night.\u00a0 The Tennis West Awards Night, proudly presented by KC Australia is Tennis West’s prestigious event that celebrated and recognised\u00a0 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19500","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\/19500","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\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}