Australia, 19 December 2023 | Leigh Rogers
It has been an distinctive 12 months in Australian tennis, with lots of our athletes shining brightly on the world’s stage.
Storm Hunter was a standout performer, changing into the primary Australian in 17 years to high the WTA Tour doubles rankings at 12 months’s finish.
The 29-year-old Hunter is amongst a outstanding 17 athletes prone to finish a memorable 12 months at world No.1 of their respective divisions.
There are 9 Australians set to conclude 2023 as world No.1 on the ITF Masters Tour, together with 70-year-old Sally Van Rensburg and 72-year-old Andrew Rae.
An additional 4 Australians will end as year-end No.1s within the Worldwide Blind Tennis Affiliation rankings, whereas three Australians high the Virtus rankings for athletes with an mental impairment.
| Australian year-end No.1s | |
| Participant | Division |
| Storm Hunter (WA) | WTA Tour girls’s doubles |
| Brendon Lee Moore (NSW) | ITF Masters 35+ males’s singles |
| Morgan Younger (Vic) | ITF Masters 50+ combined doubles |
| Garry Nadebaum (SA) | ITF Masters 55+ males’s doubles |
| Kerryn Cyprien (Qld) | ITF Masters 55+ combined doubles |
| David Evans (Qld) | ITF Masters 55+ combined doubles |
| Ros Balodis (ACT) | ITF Masters 65+ girls’s singles ITF Masters 65+ combined doubles |
| Glenn Busby (Vic) | ITF Masters 65+ males’s singles ITF Masters 65+ males’s doubles |
| Sally Van Rensburg (Vic) | ITF Masters 70+ girls’s doubles |
| Andrew Rae (Vic) | ITF Masters 70+ males’s doubles |
| Courtney Webeck (NSW) | IBTA B2 girls |
| Michael Leigh (NSW) | IBTA B3 males |
| Grace Hobbs (NSW) | IBTA B4 girls |
| Ross Patterson (Vic) | IBTA B4 males |
| Archie Graham (Qld) | Virtus II-1 males’s singles |
| Timothy Gould (Qld) | Virtus II-2 males’s singles |
| Hunter Thompson (Qld) | Virtus II-3 males’s singles |
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