Australian Open Competition

UQ Tennis Club Australian Open Competition

Answer a simple question and go into the draw for a great prize.

Question: The trophy for the Australian Open Men's Singles Championship is names after which great Australian Tennis player?

Prize for the first correct entry drawn:
Australian Open gym towel
Jacob's Creek Wine (the official wine of the Australian Open)
Wilson Tennis balls & overgrips
Cadbury Favourites cholcolates

Conditions:

Entrants must be Ordinary, Associate or Junior Members of the UQ Tennis Club for 2014.

Entries must be lodged by e-mail to admin@uqtc.org.au (type the answer as the 'Subject').

Entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Sunday, 26 January.

The names of all the entrants with the correct answer will go into a draw which will be conducted during the BBQ following Sunday Afternoon Social Tennis on 26 January.

The 2014 Membership application form can be downloaded from the Club Website here where entries can also be lodged on-line.

Update (27 January):

The competition winner was Rachel Park.

Rachel correctly answered via e-mail that the trophy for the Australian Open Men's Singles Championship, most recently won by Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka, is named after Sir Norman Brookes.  The Norman Brookes Challenge Cup has been presented to the Men's Singles Champion since 1934.

Sir Norman Brookes ('The Wizard') won the Australian Open Men's Singles Championships in 1911.  In 1907, he was the first non-British player to win the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championships.  In the same year, he teamed with New Zealand's Anthony Wilding to win the Davis Cup for Australasia for the first time.  He played Davis Cup for Australia from 1905 to 1920 and was President of the LTAA (now Tennis Australia) from 1926 to 1955.  He was knighted in 1939.