{"id":58970,"date":"2025-08-11T02:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58970\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T02:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T02:27:19","slug":"team-nsw-shine-at-the-2025-national-indigenous-tennis-carnival-11-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58970\/","title":{"rendered":"Team NSW shine at the 2025 National Indigenous Tennis Carnival | 11 August, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 August 2025 | Tennis NSW<\/p>\n

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More than 160 First Nations youth participants from across the country gathered in Darwin last week for the sixth edition of the National Indigenous Tennis Carnival (NITC). Held on Larrakia Country at the Darwin International Tennis Centre, the four-day celebration ran from 6-9 August, bringing together tennis, culture, health, education and community.<\/p>\n

Evonne Goolagong Cawley, a fourteen-time Grand Slam champion and proud Wiradjuri woman, officially opened the event on Wednesday 6 August, alongside Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley. Sixteen First Nations players traveled from NSW to join 16 teams representing every state and territory. Among them were 12 communities from the Northern Territory, including Dhalinybuy, Milyakburra, and Gangan, some of the most remote areas in the country.<\/p>\n

Following on from the NSW Talent Camp event held in Lake Macquarie earlier this year, the carnival combined competition with a range of cultural and wellbeing activities off the court, including mural and pillar painting, string making, spear throwing, weaving, wellbeing sessions and employment opportunities.<\/p>\n

NSW players competed in both the Future Stars and Showdown events, contributing to a week that highlighted the heart of Tennis Australia\u2019s Indigenous tennis pathway. The carnival provided a powerful opportunity for young people to build friendships and celebrate their heritage through tennis. Bringing culture to life, participants were also treated to a surprise performance from acclaimed First Nations rapper Barkaa.<\/p>\n

Goolagong Cawley personally awarded 17-year-old Isaac Elson (NSW) the Evonne Goolagong Cawley Medal of Excellence, praising his well-deserved recognition for leadership, sportsmanship and positive attitude displayed both on and off the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning that award is something special \u2013 I don\u2019t have words to say. It\u2019s just an awesome feeling. I\u2019ve worked very hard, and I\u2019m really appreciative of Evonne and Roger and everyone who has helped me along this path and has guided me to the positive side of everything.\u201d Isaac said.<\/p>\n

NSW RESULTS:<\/p>\n

18U Boys Singles Championships:\u00a0Quincy Kahn (NSW) defeated Isaac Elson (NSW) 1-6 6-4 [10-4]
\n14U Girls Singles Championships:\u00a0Hazel Wright (NSW) defeated Namallarri Mckenzie (SA) 6-2 6-0
\n14U Boys Singles Championships:\u00a0Will Brooks-Gay (Vic) defeated Oakley Baylis (NSW) 6-1 6-2
\nNSW Deadly Award winner:\u00a0Hazel Wright (NSW)
\nEvonne Goolagong Cawley Medal of Excellence:\u00a0Isaac Elson (NSW)
\nFutures Stars champions:\u00a0NSW<\/p>\n

NSW TEAM:<\/p>\n

Noah Baylis
\nOakley Baylis
\nRyan Budda-Deen
\nLouis De Beger
\nIsaac Elson
\nMahala Hitchings
\nMaddison Honeyman
\nJacob Issaoui Slade
\nQuincy Khan
\nCarla Mazzella
\nClay Nicholls
\nAlessandra Ostojic
\nRuby Pade
\nAyva Quigg
\nLula Ross Rawlings
\nHazel Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11 August 2025 | Tennis NSW More than 160 First Nations youth participants from across the country gathered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-58970","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\/58970","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=58970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}