Tennis Australia is collaborating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander preventative well being program Lethal Selections for a second yr in an initiative to empower Indigenous Australians to make wholesome decisions.

Lethal Selections encourages members to get energetic, eat healthily, give up smoking/vaping and join with their native Group Managed Well being Service for a 715 Well being Verify.

Group members who full a well being examine obtain a specifically designed Tennis Australia, Australian Open and Lethal Selections shirt and go within the draw to win an final AO expertise, together with flights and lodging to Melbourne, tickets to the AO on First Nations Day (Wednesday 17 January), a meet and greet with tennis legends, an on-court hit on one of many arenas, and Rod Laver Enviornment tickets.

“We’re delighted to collaborate with the unbelievable workforce at Lethal Selections for a second yr to advertise wholesome decisions in First Nations communities,” Tennis Australia Head of Inclusion and Range Kerry Tavrou stated.

“Final yr’s partnership proved extremely profitable with greater than two thousand signature shirts handed out following well being checks. We hope to construct on final yr’s program and encourage a good better uptake this yr.

“We’re very excited to supply one other final AO expertise on First Nations Day for winners of the Tennis Australia and Lethal Selections competitors. This yr the winners had a success on-court with Ash Barty and met Evonne Goolagong Cawley, which is an expertise I’m positive none of them will ever overlook.”

The partnership shall be supported and promoted in Victoria by Lethal Selections’ longstanding companion, the Victorian Aboriginal Well being Service (VAHS), which delivers education schemes and well being promotion initiatives throughout Melbourne.

“We noticed through the first yr of the Tennis Australia and Lethal Selections partnership how enthusiastically group responded to the joint well being promotion. Importantly, this translated into well being checks to kickstart the New Yr for VAHS and the quite a few different community-controlled well being service areas throughout the nation,” stated VAHS CEO Michael Graham.

“Well being checks contain a complete medical overview to examine on a person’s general well being and handle any potential areas of concern that would contribute to the event of power sickness into the longer term.

“So, it actually is likely one of the most vital preventative well being instruments out there and we thank Tennis Australia, by means of the Lethal Selections program, for helping our ongoing efforts in closing the well being and life expectancy hole amongst our Mob.

“We have now a brand new suite of Tennis Australia Lethal Selections shirts out there in-clinic, that includes the wonderful artworks of native Indigenous artist Bitja (Dixon Patten), which is able to once more draw a number of curiosity which in the end means more healthy, happier households and communities.”