LTA Tennis Sussex Awards 2025
LTA Tennis Sussex Awards 2025
Nominations are now OPEN for the LTA Awards 2025 till the 30th November.
The LTA Tennis Awards celebrate the achievements made by outstanding individuals and venues in tennis throughout the past year, from grassroots tennis to elite performance. They present us all with a great opportunity to say “thank you” to those who generously give their time to our sport and open up tennis.
Nominees will be judged at a county level, with winners going through to the regional finals. The slight change this year is that the County Award Winners will be put to a ‘Shortlist Panel’ made up of a combination of LTA colleague, LTA councillors and past winners as relevant for each category.
The ‘Shortlist Panel’ will reduce the list from (maximum) 40 to up to 20. The National Panel will then decide a maximum of 5 National Finalists including one winner and four runners up, in addition identifying a maximum of 5 ‘Excellence Awards and Up to 5 National Finalists are then invited to the National Ceremony in April. Up to 5 ‘Excellence Award’ winners will be invited to a celebration day at an LTA Major Event in June.
Pictured: Ella Belk – Rising Star Award Winner 2024
Categories for The 2025 LTA Awards
There are 13 publicly nominated award categories to choose from, covering both individual and collective recognition.
Writing and Submitting your nomination
You can nominate in as many categories as you wish and you have the option to save your progress should you wish to go back and edit your answers at a later time before submission.
Alternatively you may wish to write a draft of your nomination in Word or similar and paste in when you’re ready to submit.
When you are ready to submit, click the “submit” button at the end of the form.
Lifetime Achievement Award (someone who has volunteered for over 30 years in any capacity in tennis)
Cathie Sabin Volunteer of the Year (someone who volunteers in any capacity in tennis)
Young Person of the Year Award (someone aged 14-24 who volunteers or helps in any capacity in tennis)
Coach of the Year (a coach who works in a “grassroots” venue – club/community level)
Performance Coach of the Year (a coach who works with performance adults or juniors)
Club of the Year (a tennis club of any shape and size)
Tennis Opened up Award (an inclusion award for any individual, programme or project demonstrating inclusion)
Park Venue Award (any park venue delivering tennis)
School of the Year (any primary or secondary school delivering tennis)
University of the Year (any University delivering tennis)
Official of the Year (any level of tennis Official)
Competition of the Year (a competition of any size)
President’s Award (any individual, venue or project deserving of recognition for something exceptional)
We will also be awarding the following Tennis Sussex stand alone Awards
Robert Cushing Award – The award will be given for outstanding contribution to Sussex tennis in any capacity. It may be given to any individual or group, male or female, senior or junior, who has made, in the opinion of the judging panel, an outstanding contribution to tennis in Sussex. This may be through playing, management, administration, or any other form of support. Nominations for the award may be made by any Member as defined in the Articles of Association. All members should be reminded annually by the Board of the award and their scope to make nominations.
Sheppard Cup Girl – 14U Sportsmanship – The Sheppard cups are for players showing sportsmanship conduct with grit and determination for 11 to 14 years of age.
Sheppard Cup Boy – 14U Sportsmanship – The Sheppard cups are for players showing sportsmanship conduct with grit and determination for 11 to 14 years of age.
Howard Robins Girl 14U to 18U Sportsmanship – The Howard Robins awards are for a player nomination showing sportsmanship conduct for 14 to 18 years of age during 2024.
Howard Robins Boy 14U to 18U Sportsmanship – The Howard Robins awards are for a player nomination showing sportsmanship conduct for 14 to 18 years of age during 2024.
Junior/Adult Team of the Year – A Team that have made a significant impact or achieved significant results over the past year. This award recognises a team that have successfully utilised the skills of all members of the team in order to exceed the teams expectations.
Team/Senior Captain of the Year – Criteria coming soon
Padel Award – Criteria coming soon
Player of the Year “This award recognises outstanding achievement by any Sussex player – professional or amateur adult player. This award was first awarded in 2023 and will only be awarded should there be a worthy winner in a year.” The judging panel will reserve the right to recognise up to two winners in any given year due to exceptional circumstances
Junior Player of the Year Award (Boy & Girl) – “The Junior player (Male or Female) of the Year Award recognises young tennis players who both impress with their results on court and embody the principles of leadership and sportsmanship off-court. The judging panel will reserve the right to recognise up to two winners in any given year due to exceptional circumstances
Pat McNamara Award – A player that contributes to the team by supporting, helping, working to support all players and aspects of the 18U County Cup. Perhaps using social media. Looking after welfare of fellow team players. Showing, enthusiasm, hard work plus cheering all team players on when not playing. This is Award voted for a girl from the 18U County Cup by team players and team coach captains.
Brian Edwards Award – This award is given to a player that contributes to the team by supporting, helping, working to support all players and aspects of the 18U county cup, perhaps using social media. Looking after welfare of fellow team players. Showing, enthusiasm, hard work plus cheering all team players on when not playing. This Award is voted by team players and team coach captains.
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LTA Tennis Sussex Awards 2025
The event will be free to attend.
