Evonne Goolagong Cawley will be part of 184 younger Indigenous tennis gamers from throughout Australia on the fifth annual Nationwide Indigenous Tennis Carnival in Darwin.
Darwin, NT, 7 August 2024 | tennis.com.au
Preparations for the fifth version of the Nationwide Indigenous Tennis Carnival (NITC) are ramping up, with the occasion going down on the Darwin Worldwide Tennis Centre from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 August.
The NITC 2024 will carry collectively 184 younger Indigenous tennis gamers from all corners of the nation. Gamers from seven Northern Territory communities – together with distant areas Nhulunbuy, Utopia and Massive Rivers Area – will compete in what guarantees to be one other extraordinary celebration uniting younger First Nations individuals via a love of tennis.
Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion and proud Wiradjuri lady Evonne Goolagong Cawley is trying ahead to collaborating on the NITC once more this yr.
“This superb occasion is essentially the most vital gathering of Indigenous tennis gamers in our nation, and will probably be nice to see children of all ages having fun with the game I really like a lot – whether or not discovering it for the primary time or having the chance to develop and enhance their abilities,” Goolagong Cawley mentioned.
“It’s unimaginable to see how tennis can have such a optimistic impression on communities. The celebration of tradition, enhancing the well being and wellbeing of everybody concerned and selling training are all so necessary to me. I can’t wait to come back to the occasion once more this yr.”
Together with offering a improbable tennis expertise for each completed gamers and people new to the game, the off-court focus of the NITC this yr is on well being, wellbeing and careers.
Sport is a robust driver to advertise and enhance well being and training outcomes for First Nations individuals, and tennis, famend for being a sport for all ages and enhancing social connections, is completely positioned.
The NITC event options two streams of play, one for efficiency together with a aggressive showdown, and one for participation that includes Sizzling Pictures Tennis and Future Stars for newbie and intermediate gamers.
Play begins on Thursday 8 August with winners topped for the 14/U and 18/U Showdowns on Sunday.
A spread of cultural and wellbeing actions will happen off the court docket, together with conventional weaving, spear throwing, portray, free well being checks and rather more.
“On the NITC, First Nations children from each state and territory throughout Australia join via group, tradition, wellbeing, training, and naturally tennis,” Tennis NT CEO Tania Tandora mentioned.
“These occasions are an instance of the great that sport can do, and the way everybody advantages from investing locally and offering alternatives to play, be taught and develop.”
The occasion in Darwin is the end result of months of exercise throughout the nation, with greater than 1000 younger First Nations individuals collaborating in 17 lead-in occasions round Australia in latest months, a participation enhance of virtually 300 from 2023.
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