Auckland Tennis

Auckland City — The New Zealand Davis Cup team has been confirmed for one of its toughest clashes for several years.

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Auckland City — There will be some tough matches for top players in the early rounds of the Pascoes The Jewellers New Zealand Tennis Champs starting today at North Harbour as the draws look set to put some challenges in front of those aiming for the reward of wildcards into the ASB Classic in January.

By dave worsley
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Auckland City — Over 100 table tennis players and officials from nations around Oceania and Asia hit the tables later this week and next at the Auckland Table Tennis Stadium in Gillies Ave for the 2012 KVB Kunlun TTNZ New Zealand Junior and Cadet Open.

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Auckland City — It was two-from-two for the Parnell Tennis club as they won both titles in the Scarbro Caro Bowl over the weekend and can now lay claim to having the top teams in interclub in New Zealand.

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Auckland City — Big victories by the top sides in both the men’s and women’s Scarbro Caro Bowl kept the leading teams out in front after four rounds.

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Auckland City — Popular German player and former champion Philipp Kohlschreiber has been confirmed for the 2011 Heineken Open featuring the Panasonic Singles and Doubles.

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Auckland City — Former New Zealand Davis Cup player and the coach of former Wimbledon Men’s singles champion, Michael Stich wants to get people active.

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Auckland City — The second round of Scarbro Caro Bowl tennis had plenty of expectation in the men’s draw with a replay of the 2008 final played in front of a big crowd as Parnell hosted West End and slightly better weather compared to the opening round.

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Auckland City — The 2010 ASB Classic featuring the Kia Motors Singles and Doubles has scored an early coup with the confirmation that the world’s No1 doubles team and yesterday’s US Open doubles finalists, Zimbabwe’s Cara Black and Liezel Huber(United States) have confirmed to play in Auckland in January.

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Auckland City — Gale-force winds weren’t able to stop the progress of Wellington 18-year-old Finn Tearney who had a first round win at the US$15,000 ASB Pro Circuit tennis Futures at North Harbour beating his Australian rival, 763rd ranked Matt Reid in straight sets 6-3 6-4.

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Auckland City — Beaten finalist from the 2008 ASB Classic, Aravane Rezai of France has moved into the main draw of next week’s event after the confirmation of the withdrawal of Ukrainian, Mariya Koryttseva with an ankle complaint.

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Auckland City — A former tennis teenage star has been confirmed for the 2009 ASB Classic featuring the Kia Motors Singles and Doubles.

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Auckland City — A third top-20 player has been confirmed for the 2009 Heineken Open featuring the Sovereign singles and doubles with the announcement that world No18 Nicolas Almagro of Spain will appear in Auckland in January.

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Auckland City — Tickets for the 2009 ASB Classic and Heineken Open are now on sale with demand expected to be high for the two weeks of tennis and the most prestigious sporting events in New Zealand.

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Auckland City — The 2009 ASB Classic featuring new singles and doubles sponsors Kia Motors will be the first tournament in the world to have on-court coaching allowed as part of the new Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Roadmap.

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Auckland City — Tennis Auckland has applied for and been granted a 28-player singles draw for the 2009 Heineken Open featuring the Sovereign singles.

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Auckland City — The summer sport season gets underway this Friday, night (26 September) with the start of the Scarbro Caro Bowl tennis competition which is fiercely competitive and features the top players from New Zealand past, present and future with a few foreign players thrown in too.

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Auckland City — A new era in women’s professional sport in New Zealand has been formed with the announcement that the ASB Classic will be part of the new look 55-tournament Sony Ericsson WTA Tour calendar in 2009 and beyond.

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Auckland City — Once again the ASB Classic has outdone itself with results of a tournament review by organisers and sponsors showing just how successful January’s event was as records were broken in on all counts.

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Auckland City — At first glance, this bill appears to be a mere technical adjustment, a proposal to amend the Auckland Domain Act 1987 in order to update the reference from the Auckland Lawn Tennis Association (Incorporated) to Auckland Tennis Incorporated.

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