HOBART, Australia - Tennis may be an individual sport on the court, but it takes a dedicated and experienced team working behind the scenes to fuel the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour performance machine. Each tournament is equipped with a full health and sports medicine unit to meet the needs of athletes throughout the event and one of these integral teammates of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour is the tournament physician.
To recognize and honor sports medicine excellence and contributions by a tournament physician that are outstanding and exemplary, the Irving Glick Award of Excellence was established in 2000.
Glick was the Chief Medical Officer for the US Open for over 20 years, and made important contributions to tennis medicine and science. During his career, Glick founded and chaired the Sports Medicine Advisory Committee of the USTA, served on the Medical Commission for the ITF and was the science coordinator for Tennis Sports Medicine - Olympics. He was the ITF medical representative to the Olympics in Seoul and Barcelona and he also served as orthopedic consultant to the US Merchant Marine Academy.
Glick made many outstanding professional contributions to the world of tennis, being inducted into the USTA Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame, and he was the recipient of the International Tennis Hall of Fame Educational Merit Award.
The Dr. Glick Award was first presented to Glick at a ceremony at the Sony Ericsson Championships on November 8, 2000. Since that time it has served to recognize and honor outstanding contributions and sport medicine excellence on the part of tournament physicians.
Each year at the end of the tennis season, the members of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour's Sport Sciences & Medicine Department review the outstanding contributions of the tournament physicians and present this award to the physician who demonstrates the high standards Glick set in the world of tennis. Sadly, the world lost Glick in April of 2009 but his legacy lives on through the impression he made in tennis and medicine.
The Tour and its athletes are pleased to recognize Dr. Steve Reid as the 2009 recipient of the Irving Glick Award of Excellence. For the past seven years, Reid has not only provided the highest quality medical care to the athletes at the Moorilla Hobart International here in Hobart, but also demonstrated genuine care and concern for the well being of the players. Reid is a Sports and Tennis Medicine expert, highly respected in Hobart and throughout the world.
