Allan Kendall
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Full name | Allan Crawford Kendall |
---|---|
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
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "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.