Moorilla Hobart International tournament doctor, Dr Steve Reid, has tonight received the Irving Glick Award of Excellence from the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.
The Irving Glick Award of Excellence serves to recognise and honour outstanding contributions and sport medicine excellence on the part of Sony Ericsson WTA Tour tournament physicians.
Amber Donaldson, Director of Sports Sciences and Medicine Programs at the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, presented Dr Reid with the award.
Dr Reid has been the doctor at the Moorilla Hobart International for the past seven years.
“I’m very flattered, it is totally unexpected. It’s an honour and very humbling,” Dr Reid said.
“It’s nice for a small tournament such as the Moorilla Hobart International to be recognised by an organisation as big as the WTA who run tournaments all around the world.”
Dr Reid first got involved in the Moorilla Hobart International when he arrived in Hobart, asked to be part of the team that provided medical care to players during the tournament.
The following year he was asked to coordinate this service and has been doing so ever since.
Outside of the tournament Dr Reid runs a full time sports physician practice in Hobart.
Dr Irving Glick was the Chief Medical Office for the US Open for more than 20 years and made important contributions to tennis medicine and science.
He founded and chaired the Sports Medicine Advisory committee of the USTA, served on the Medical Commission for the ITF, was the science coordinator for Tennis Sports Medicine – Olympics and was the ITF medical representative to the Olympics in Seoul and Barcelona.
Making many outstanding professional contributions to the world of tennis he was inducted into the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the International Tennis Hall of Fame Educations Merit Award.