Tribute to Alison Ide

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.

A remarkable lady, Alison just loved her tennis and was still having the odd hit in recent times despite her illness. A tribute to Alison from Anne Haycock, one her close tennis friends, appears on the ACT Tennis Seniors web site.