Update: 12th May from Tennis Victoria

Vale Len Pratt

It is with great sadness that Waverley Tennis advise all our players and club officials of the passing of our dear colleague and friend, Len Pratt, last Easter Sunday evening, 12 April 2020.

• Len joined Waverley Tennis in 1980 when his wife Peg (deceased) was a Junior Records Secretary.
• He joined the Committee of Management (COM) in 2002 as Senior Winter Competition Records Secretary and continued as Records Secretary for one of either Junior or Senior seasons from 2002 to 2010.
• From 2011 Len continued as a COM member and was the Mid-Week Mens Records Secretary and helped in many other activities.
• Len was also the editor and producer of the Association Newsletter "Waverley Informer" since the first issue in 1994. Starting with a simple one-page document he continued improving it to the fine multipage glossy publication it is today.
• Len was the Association photographer.
• Both Len and Peg were Life Members of Waverley Tennis.

Len was a longstanding member of the Waverley Tennis COM, was the Mid-Week Men's Record Secretary and the editor and publisher of the Waverley Tennis newsletter, the Waverley Informer, until early this year, when he was hospitalised for several weeks before moving to aftercare at Estia Health in Ringwood.

Len was very jovial and bright to the end and was still fully in communication with his much-loved family and the world in general, "I have Facebook, Foxtel, Netflix and now Facetime."

Len welcomed everyone, regardless of ability, to the world of tennis, and his qualities were fairness, inclusiveness, teamwork and passion within the world of tennis.

Len's passion for tennis was not just to Waverley Tennis and the Doveton Tennis Club, but also to the Melbourne Churches Tennis Association and his beloved All Saints East Malvern Tennis Club (now Glendearg All Saints Tennis Club).

Len's late wife, Peg was also a great contributor and we have now lost two special Waverley team members. We were lucky to have had their contribution in so many ways for so long.

Len's contribution to all these tennis clubs and organisations has been monumental and his drive and inspiration will be sorely missed by all those who had the privilege to meet him. We have lost a great warrior for tennis.

Waverley Tennis and the Committee of Management are much saddened by losing such a great friend and supporter, as, no doubt, are we all.

Our sympathies are with Len's family, his children, grand children and great-grand children.

(Len also loved the colour red, hence the shirt, and the theme.)