Australian Tennis Awards 2024: Players hit the blue carpet | 9 December, 2024 | All News | News and Features | News and Events

Stars of Aussie tennis walked the blue carpet at this year’s 2024 Newcombe Medal awards at Melbourne’s Crown Casino.

Amid posing for photographs and media interviews, they spoke with tennis.com.au. These are among the highlights:

Sam Stosur, former Newcombe Medallist and Billie Jean King Cup captain

Who do you most look forward to catching up with or running into at the awards night: “I think the people you don’t see that much, so you come to something like this and you always run into someone you haven’t seen for a long time, have a great catch-up and I think it’s probably the people you don’t see too much. Having said that, I love seeing my friends and everyone else here as well, but I think it’s one of those bump-in opportunities where ‘Oh I haven’t seen you for a few months’. It’s lovely.”

Matt Ebden, Newcombe Medal nominee and Olympic gold medallist

You’ve had an extraordinary year and you have your Olympic gold medal here with you. What would you love to achieve in 2025? “The Grand Slams are obviously huge, the Masters, but we want to win the Davis Cup for Australia. We haven’t quite achieved that these last few years. We’ve been so close so that’s the biggest one.”

John Peers, Newcombe Medal nominee and Olympic gold medallist

Is there a player or player, past or present, you most look forward to catching up with tonight? “To be fair it’s all the guys I don’t get to see who don’t travel as much anymore. I saw Lucz [Peter Luczak]. I hadn’t seen him since the start of the years a few of the past players – Wayne Arthurs, Frommy [Richard Fromberg], Todd [Woodbridge] if he’s around. A lot of these guys we don’t get to see as much as we used to.”