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Warkworth’s Murray Billington has received a national service to tennis award by Tennis NZ Seniors (TNZS) at an event in Christchurch.
Billington has been a part of senior tennis for 35 years, 15 of those spent at the Warkworth-based Lower Northland Senior Tennis Club, either as president, club captain, committee member or running the Annual Open tournament.
On top of that, he was the president of TNZS for an extended term of four years and is credited with improving the fairness of representation on the national committee and selection panel.
His playing record is equally impressive, with 12 individual senior titles and nine titles with the Lower North Island team at the national event. Internationally, he represented New Zealand at the ITF Worlds both in Perth in 2009 and Croatia in 2013.
Though Billington is now unable to play tennis due to a health condition, he still assists the club and is on the committee that organised the 2019 Seniors Tournament that took place last weekend.
He was selected for the award by a panel of eight club officers on the national committee, out of 2500 members in the organisation.
