Allan Crawford Kendall (29 September 1928 — 17 December 2013) was an Australian broadcaster and
tennis
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player.
Kendall, born in the New South Wales town of
Orange
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*Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis''
** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower
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, was a nephew of tennis player
Jack Crawford. His father, Victor, ended up running a tennis club in Albury where the then
Margaret Smith (Court) trained.
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
Rex Noel Hartwig (2 September 1929 – 30 December 2022) was an Australian tennis player.
Early life
Rex Hartwig was born on 2 September 1929 in Culcairn, New South Wales. Both parents played tennis, and at age 10, Hartwig won a local tournam ...
in 1947.
Kendall received blues in lawn tennis, squash and table tennis while studying at the
University of Sydney
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.
During the 1950s and 1960s he competed on the international tennis tour.
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
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Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
...
.
When the show premiered on the ABC in 1966 he was the inaugural producer.