Allan Kendall
Full name | Allan Crawford Kendall |
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Country (sports) | Australia |
Born | (1928-09-29)29 September 1928 Orange, New South Wales |
Died | 17 December 2013(2013-12-17) (aged 85) Sydney, New South Wales |
Singles | |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | 2R (1950) |
French Open | 2R (1959) |
Wimbledon | 2R (1959) |
Allan Crawford Kendall (29 September 1928 — 17 December 2013) was an Australian broadcaster and tennis player.[1]
Kendall, born in the New South Wales town of Orange, was a nephew of tennis player Jack Crawford.[2] His father, Victor, ended up running a tennis club in Albury where the then Margaret Smith (Court) trained.[1]
Attending Scots College in Sydney from 1943, Kendall was the 1946 NSW schoolboys singles champion. He was a junior doubles champion at the Australian Championships with Rex Hartwig in 1947.[1]
Kendall received blues in lawn tennis, squash and table tennis while studying at the University of Sydney.[1]
During the 1950s and 1960s he competed on the international tennis tour.[1]
Kendall, who got involved in the arts during university, founded the Australian version of BBC children's television show Play School. He got the idea after a visit to BBC studios in 1964 and retired from tennis to begin working for the ABC.[1] When the show premiered on the ABC in 1966 he was the inaugural producer.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Allan Kendall: Ace at tennis was smash on children's TV". Sydney Morning Herald. 30 January 2014.
- ^ "Allan Kendall Astounds Critics". Border Morning Mail. 17 January 1945. p. 5 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "TELEVISION Week of good interviewing". The Canberra Times. 22 July 1966. p. 13 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
- Allan Kendall at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Allan Kendall at IMDb
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