A five-year rally: Nationwide Indigenous Tennis Carnival celebrates group and tennis | 25 July, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Preparations for the fifth version of the Nationwide Indigenous Tennis Carnival (NITC) are ramping up, with the occasion happening 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. Seven communities from the Northern Territory together with distant areas Nhulunbuy, Utopia and Massive Rivers Area may have gamers competing, in what guarantees to be one other extraordinary celebration uniting younger First Nations folks by way of a love of tennis.

Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion and proud Wiradjuri lady Evonne Goolagong Cawley is wanting ahead to collaborating on the NITC once more this 12 months.

“This wonderful occasion is probably the most important 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 like a lot – whether or not discovering it for the primary time or having the chance to develop and enhance their expertise,” Goolagong Cawley stated.

“It’s unbelievable 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 schooling are all so essential to me. I can’t wait to return to the occasion once more this 12 months.”

Together with offering a incredible tennis expertise for each completed gamers and people new to the game, this 12 months the off-court focus of the NITC is on well being, wellbeing and careers.

Sport is a robust driver to advertise and enhance well being and schooling outcomes for First Nations folks, and tennis, famend for being a sport for all ages and enhancing social connections, is completely positioned.

The NITC match 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.

A variety of cultural and wellbeing actions will happen off the court docket, together with conventional weaving, spear throwing, portray, free well being checks and far more.

“On the NITC, First Nations children from each state and territory throughout Australia join by way of group, tradition, wellbeing, schooling, and naturally tennis,” Tennis NT CEO Tania Tandora stated.

“These occasions are an instance of the nice 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 folks collaborating in 17 lead-in occasions round Australia in latest months, a participation enhance of virtually 300 from 2023.