| Allan Kendall | |
| Fullname: | Allan Crawford Kendall |
| Birth Date: | 29 September 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Orange, New South Wales |
| Death Place: | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Australianopenresult: | 2R (1950) |
| Frenchopenresult: | 2R (1959) |
| Wimbledonresult: | 2R (1959) |
Allan Crawford Kendall (29 September 1928 — 17 December 2013) was an Australian broadcaster and tennis player.[1]
Kendall, born in the New South Wales town of Orange, was a nephew of tennis player Jack Crawford.[2] His father, Victor, ended up running a tennis club in Albury where the then Margaret Smith (Court) trained.[1]
Attending Scots College in Sydney from 1943, Kendall was the 1946 NSW schoolboys singles champion. He was a junior doubles champion at the Australian Championships with Rex Hartwig in 1947.[1]
Kendall received blues in lawn tennis, squash and table tennis while studying at the University of Sydney.[1]
During the 1950s and 1960s he competed on the international tennis tour.[1]
Kendall, who got involved in the arts during university, founded the Australian version of BBC children's television show Play School. He got the idea after a visit to BBC studios in 1964 and retired from tennis to begin working for the ABC.[1] When the show premiered on the ABC in 1966 he was the inaugural producer.[3]