Tennis: Hank Lloyd receives SCTA Curt Condon Spirit Award

Hank Lloyd, a longtime Orange County tennis professional who has run the Costa Mesa Tennis Center since 1999, recently received the Curt Condon Spirit Award by the Southern California Tennis Assn.

Given to an individual who has gone above and beyond in their promotion of tennis, the award was presented at the SCTA’s Annual Meeting in the Straus Clubhouse at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on the UCLA campus, just west of Pauley Pavilion.

“You have set by virtue of your exemplary conduct, leadership and expertise while coaching, directing tournaments and organizing events has earned you this substantial honor,” Trevor Kronemann, the SCTA’s director of junior tennis, wrote Lloyd in a letter informing him of the honor. “Your favorable example has provided today’s players with an environment in which they can compete and excel.

“I am thrilled beyond belief to receive this award,” said Lloyd, who grew up in Fullerton and spent 1977 and 1978 on the Pro Circuit tour after graduating from San Jose State University. “Curt Condon was a best friend and a great human being. So this is very special to me to be acknowledged with his spirit for life and tennis in everyone he touched.”

Condon was a Long Beach State tennis star and longtime San Diego teaching professional. He won the SCTA Special Services award four times and in 2007, the Spirit Award was named after him, a year before he passed away from a brain tumor.

— From staff reports