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Milton Courts (now Frew Park) was a tennis venue located in
Milton
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** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...
,
Brisbane
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,
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
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, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
,
Australia
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. The complex consisted of 19
hard court
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s and four
grass court
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Although grass c ...
s. The main arena seated 7,000 people and opened in 1915.
Robert Dickson Alison Frew was the president of the
Queensland Lawn Tennis Association (later
Tennis Queensland
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ...
) from 1910 to 1930. He was the driving force behind the creation of the tennis centre.
![The Stefan Racquet - Frew Park, Milton, circa 1999](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/The_Stefan_Racquet_-_Frew_Park%2C_Milton%2C_circa_1999.jpg)
It hosted eight
Australian Open/Championships, including the first tournament where professionals were allowed in 1969. In addition, it staged three
Davis Cup
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finals, in
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
,
1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...
, and
1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
.
English
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rock band
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performed at the venue during their
1973 Pacific Tour on 14 February 1973.
The venue closed in 1999 because of heavy financial losses by
Tennis Queensland
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. The land was sold in 2002 and the complex demolished.
In 2014, the site was redeveloped by the
Brisbane City Council
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as Frew Park, a combined park and tennis centre. Frew Park was opened on 29 November 2014 and is named after Robert Frew.
Frew Park is made up of Roy Emerson Tennis Courts, Wendy Turnbull Green, Fay Muller Rebound Wall and is also home of the Stefan Tennis Racket. It is a key part of the Brisbane Tennis Trail.
![The Stefan Racquet - Frew Park, Milton, circa 2014](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/The_Stefan_Racquet_-_Frew_Park%2C_Milton%2C_circa_2014.jpg)
Brisbane hairdresser
Stefan Ackerie
Stefan Ackerie (born 1941), usually known by the mononym Stefan, is a businessman who owns a chain of hairdressing salons in Brisbane, Australia.
Early life
He was born in 1941 in Batroun, Lebanon. His family migrated when he was 15 to Adelaide, ...
had rescued his tennis racquet icon (based on the
Aldila
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Aldila manufactures OEM sha ...
brand) that was originally over the Milton Tennis Centre when it was demolished (he had sponsored the Queensland Tennis Open competition at that site) and 15 years later in June 2014 had it re-erected over the
Frew Park
Milton Courts (now Frew Park) was a tennis venue located in Milton, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The complex consisted of 19 hard courts and four grass courts. The main arena seated 7,000 people and opened in 1915. Robert Dickson Alison Frew ...
.
References
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Stadium information
Tennis venues in Australia
Sports venues in Brisbane
Milton, Queensland
Parks in Brisbane
1958 Davis Cup
1962 Davis Cup
1967 Davis Cup
Defunct sports venues in Australia
Demolished buildings and structures in Brisbane
Sports venues demolished in 2002
Demolished sports venues
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