By Violet Li<\/p>\n
Tooradin Tennis Club has named its pavilion after one of its dedicated life members, Bobby Genoni.<\/p>\n
Ms Genoni has been a part of the club for over 60 years, serving on the committee and contributing to countless community activities.<\/p>\n
Trained in her early years by Australian tennis legend Frank Sedgman, she\u2019s played over 1000 competition matches for the club and is still playing at the age of 84.<\/p>\n
Her leadership is also etched into the club\u2019s honour board, where she is listed as president in 2005-06 and secretary in 1978-81 and 1997-98. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a great person to have around the club because, obviously, she\u2019s got a lot of knowledge and a lot of history about the place, but she\u2019s also a wonderful person,\u201d Club president Graeme Symons said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s got a smile on her face all the time, and she\u2019s great to be around, and we\u2019re just really lucky to have her.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the special occasion, Mr Symons looked back on the history of the club.<\/p>\n
The club was founded in 1947, and Ms Genoni got involved about ten years later.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that the club was probably a little more active competition-wise in the 1980s and 1990s,\u201d Mr Symons said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we have quite a strong junior program here. That\u2019s a little bit to do with the development around Tooradin, and there are new estates, so you get younger kids and young families.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still social tennis happening during the week for the Midweek Ladies, which has been ongoing for a really long time. It started in the 1970s. Bobby\u2019s been a player for that whole time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got all kinds of standards of people who play every year. We\u2019ve had a couple of people who have got involved because their kids are doing juniors, and they\u2019ve thought I would mind playing to this as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Symons said the club remains a good social place for people in the community to meet. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a game that anyone can play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Violet Li Tooradin Tennis Club has named its pavilion after one of its dedicated life members, Bobby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-143923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}