Sunbury’s Jin Woodman’s rise up the tennis ranks has seen him again recognised the Tennis Victoria awards night.
Woodman, who trains at the Hume Tennis and Community Centre, was named Tennis Victoria’s most outstanding athlete with a disability.
The teenager, who was also up for the top award of Victorian player of the year,
It’s a second straight Tennis Victoria award having won the male junior athlete of the year award last year.
The 16-year-old has risen to number three in the junior singles ITF rankings and number nine quad singles as of September.
Earlier this year, Woodman was supposed to go to Korea and Japan to compete, but suffered an injury to his femur which forced him to take a break from tennis.
Having returned to the court at the US Open, where he avenged his 2025 Australian Open defeat to Ahmet Kaplan from Turkey, defeating the number four seed to reach the US Open quad singles quarterfinals.
Bundoora’s Ava Beck won the junior female athlete of the year award for a second straight year.
She was just five when she picked up a tennis racket at Bundoora Tennis Club and never looked back.
After reaching a career high junior ranking of 103 in October last year, she continued to build and reached a career high ranking of 82 during the nomination period.
The 17-year-old claimed singles titles at the J200 Miki and J100 Canberra before adding the 2025 J100 Mornington crown to her record.
She also competed at the 2025 Australian Open juniors, reaching the round of 64 in singles and the round of 32 in doubles.
In doubles, Beck’s success includes titles at the J300 Beaulieu-sur-Mer, J100 Canberra and J100 Mornington in 2025, as well as the J200 Sydney and J100 Canberra in 2024.
