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Australian Teams and Selectors announced - January 2009Senior and Super-senior teams for the 2009 World Championships have now been announced along with the National Selectors who will take up their responsibilities as of March. Carl Anjou made Life Member of Tennis Seniors Australia - January 2009After many years of service to Australian Tennis Seniors, Carl Anjou has decided it was his time to retire from the secretary role. At the recent AGM in Adelaide, Carl was awarded life membership of the organisation and a new secretary (Tom Hancy) was elected. On behalf of Tennis Seniors, we thank Carl for his many years of service and to wish him all the very best in retirement. We also welcome Tom to the fold and would like to warn him about the size of the shoes he will need to fill. An updated list of office bearers is now available.
Australian Tennis 35+ Seniors Championships - Adelaide, January 2009Another successful Australia Tennis 35+ Seniors has been completed and congratulations must go to South Australia for their superb organisational effort. Robyn Castle has been busy putting together a full wrap-up of the Championships and has collated the results of the Individuals competition of the second week. List of Office Bearers - Dec, 2008Carl Anjou has circulated an updated list of office bearers
of Tennis Seniors Australia and the associated Divisional
offices. Graeme Holloway (TAS President) and Noel Fraser
(NSW) have retired after a number of years of distinguished
service to their Divisional Associations and we would like to
thank them for their contribution. Replacing them, we
welcome the newly elected Presidents, Bill Cromer (TAS) and Enid
Besant-Ryan (NSW), and wish them all the best for the challenges
ahead. Sad things happen in three's - December 2008 We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Yvonne Winter, Reg Summers and Alan Carroll.
Reg Summers was a Life Member of Tennis Seniors Australia and was an inaugural member of the national “Vets” executive in 1970 when the original “Veterans Lawn Tennis Club of Australia” was formed by the late John Young. The first committee was John Young as President, Geoff Brown, Colin Long and Adrian Quist were the Vice-Presidents and Reg Summers elected as the Secretary/Treasurer. Reg remained as secretary until 1981.
Rankings - Tennis Seniors Australia - November 2008Gail Bates has recently updated the rankings lists for both singles and doubles.
Wrap-up of the Worlds in Turkey - Oct, Nov 2008Robyn Castle has filed her final report from the World Championships in Turkey. The World Championships came to a close on Sunday, October 26, with many Australians in the winners’ circle, taking out FIVE Singles and SIX Doubles titles. Carl Anjou also pays tribute to the efforts of our representatives at the Seniors and Super-Seniors World Tennis Championships held in October in Turkey.
More good
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Alison
Ide has finally lost her two-year battle with cancer.
Anyone who has been around Seniors Tennis for any length of time
will have heard of the sprightly but frail 70+ year old from the
ACT. She was a fantastic tennis player, administrator and
person. In the past 30 or so years, she has won numerous
national seniors doubles and mixed doubles titles, has been
Australian Veteran Tennis Player of the Year (1986), been
President of ACT Tennis Veterans/Seniors for many years, been
recognised nationally with an OAM (1997), been an Australian
Tennis Seniors Administrator of the Year (2000), been Secretary
of Australian Tennis Seniors (1998-2003), made a Life Member of
Australian Tennis Seniors (2003), and even as recently as 2006
won a World Doubles title in the 70+ age group.
Yvonne, a beautiful lady, was the
widow of our former Publicity officer, Kevin Winter. For those
wishing to attend, a service will be held at Sydney's Eastern
Suburbs Crematorium, South Chapel on Wednesday January 7 at
2.15pm. Afterwards friends will gather at Bonnie Doon Golf Club
for refreshments. Yvonne loved the place, and it was her choice
of venue for Kevin's gathering. Long-time friend Mavis Bailey
(who will travel from Tasmania) will be delivering the eulogy.
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The
supporters who ‘carried them over the line’, said it was
like a football match with all the cheering and yelling
“Go, Aussies, Go”! And the atmosphere was electric. (I
wish I’d been there!) It was down to a Doubles decider,
and the Aussies had to win the third set. They played
drop shots and lobs with superb control to have the
Americans wondering what to do next.
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More from Robyn Castle in Turkey...
Seniors & Super-Seniors World Team Championships - Oct, 2008
Robyn Castle reports from Turkey on the progress of our teams...
Club Ali Bey in Antalya, Turkey is once again an excellent host for the Tennis Seniors’ Teams’ Championships, and the Aussies are having some good results. At Belek, there are 6 teams – Men’s 50s, 60s and 70s, and Women’s 50s, 55s and 60s.
Also check out the news from the ITF site...
Help wanted - who did win the 50 Mens singles title in 1978?
Gail Bates needs your help in collating historical records from the Australian Seniors Championships since they were first conducted in Hobart in 1977. Over the past two years, in somewhat of a labour of love, Gail has put together a comprehensive booklet that lists winners, finalists, scores and events for every national championship since 1977. The results of her work to date can be downloaded as a pdf file and she is asking for your help to fill in any missing players and results. If anybody can help in any way with corrections or additions, please email Gail on .
Major sponsor for Tennis Seniors
Australia is Technical Tennis P/L distributors of Head tennis
rackets, clothing and tennis balls.
required to open
above files - available free.
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