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The WTA Tour heads to Auckland, New Zealand for the ASB Classic, an International Level tournament that happens staring the second of January, 2012. This tournament will be played outdoors on hard surface, with $220,000 up for grabs and a singles draw of 32 and a doubles draw of 16. Last year, Gret Arn won the singles title while Kveta Peschke and Katarina Krebotnik took the doubles title. The next tournament on the calendar is the Apia International Sydney, held in Australia starting the 8^th of January.

 

 

Those that will be playing in this tournament include Flavia Pennetta, Julia Goerges, Pen Shuai, Marina Erakovic and Yanina Wickmayer as well as Sabine Lisicki, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Christina McHale. Greta Arn, last year's Singles champion will be in attendance as well along with Sara Errani, Roberta Vinci, Rebecca Marino and Alexandra Dulgheru. Sign up at the banners on this page and you can get access to live streaming tennis online, from anywhere in the world. All you have to do is click on the links on this page to get started.

 

Posted: 2nd January 2011

 

The WTA Tour opens the 2011 season with the combined men and women's Brisbane International, but immediately following that will be the WTA's Auckland stop called the ASB Classic. A premier level tournament called the Medibank International Sydney happens next in Australia, and then of course, the Australian Open is this month as well. Click on the links on this page if you want access to live tennis all year long, including this tournament, in high quality streaming video from your computer no matter where you were in the world.

 

 

The ASB Classic is an international tournament that joins the huge variety of events that the WTA is holding in January to kick off the new season of the WTA Tour. It happens in Auckland, New Zealand, and it runs from the second of January to the ninth. This is an outdoors tournament that will be played on hard courts and the prize purse for this event is $220,000. The singles main draw will be thirty two and the doubles draw is sixteen. Last year, Yanina Wickmayer was able to procure the singles title and Cara Black and Liezel Huber were champions for the doubles.

 

 

Maria Sharapova is the top seed for the ASB Classic. She is a three time grand slam champion and is one of two former number ones that will be in attendance. Also appearing are Dinara Safina and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Kimiko Date-Krumm is a former top ten player that will be playing this tournament and Yanina Wickmayer, Alona Bondarenko and Anabel Medina Garrigues will be playing as well. Click the links on this page to watch the ASB Classic live from your computer no matter where you are in the world.

 

Posted: 3rd January 2010

 

We kick off the 2010 year for professional tennis tournaments with a WTA event from Auckland, New Zealand, and is an international level tournament with a prize purse that matches the Brisbane International, $220,000. The singles draw is 32 and the doubles draw is 16. The tournament is called the ASB Classic and it happens from January 4^th through the 9^th. Get your membership at the banners on this page and watch the tournament live from the court, right from your PC or Laptop, starting on Monday, January 4^th.

 

 

Top seed for this tournament is Flavia Pennetta who is famous for beginning the first top ten player for Italy. She has a total of eight titles in the WTA Singles, and has won against the likes of Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams and Jelena Jankovic. She has 3.2 million dollars in career prize money so far. The number two seed is Na Li, another firster for her nation of China, becoming the first Chinese player in the top 30 in 2006. Li only has two WTA titles but has a total of nineteen International Tennis Federation titles.

 

 

Yanina Wickmayer is the third seed in this tournament, and this Belgian has 2 WTA titles and 9 ITF titles. Fourth is Francesca Schiavone from Italy. The fifth seed in the ASB Classic is Virginia Razzano, sixth is Russian player Elena Vesnina and the seventh seed of the top eight is Aravane Rezai from France. The last seed is Anabel Medina Garrigues from Spain. Don't miss this tournament, get your membership at the links on this page and you can watch live from your computer in high quality video streams starting on January 4^th.

 

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