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Trump,

Follow this closely and the tournament director, Karl Budge, does an outstanding job attracting the field he does, that’s reflected in the quality that was there this year... he’s probably already working on next year.

Apparently players like coming here, it’s NZ for God’s sake :),  it’s a great lead in to the Aussie Open, it ain’t for the $$$.

Cheers

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1 hour ago, CosmicBlackie said:

Trump,

Follow this closely and the tournament director, Karl Budge, does an outstanding job attracting the field he does, that’s reflected in the quality that was there this year... he’s probably already working on next year.

Apparently players like coming here, it’s NZ for God’s sake :),  it’s a great lead in to the Aussie Open, it ain’t for the $$$.

Cheers

Agree with you there and TNZ do a great job considering the prizemoney and Venue. But with the ATP Cup (Ranking Points) attracting all the big name men’s players and a push to include a Women’s version next year, it’s going to make it tougher for TNZ to attract anyone from the top 10. Then there’s the Brisbane International going from strength to strength, especially since the magnificent Pat Rafter Arena was built. 

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Hello Trump.

Your post is interesting but do bear in mind TNZ (Tennis New Zealand) have Nothing to do with the ASB Woman's or Men's tournament. They are both run exclusively by Auckland Tennis who are independent of NZ Tennis. Auckland Tennis pay a small affiliation fee to New Zealand Tennis and that is it.

Interesting enough The Australia Tennis Open is run by Tennis Australia , a very big corporation with the stated theme of returning all profit , (and its a truly remarkable profit too) to the benefit of Australian Tennis across all the Commonwealth of Australia.

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By TNZ I was generalizing a little. You are correct of course. But I was merely referring to the overall picture and how it’s going to be difficult to attract the top players with the lead ups to the Aust Open. That’s the main game with $AUD70million prizemoney and ranking credits to boot. 

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Hello Mr Doomed. Serena is indeed very expensive but the others very cheap because they have come to love NZ and Auckland. Its quite a classy show and they enjoy it a lot. If we (NZ) do things well, and always with class, the world will come. You are right, we will never match the millions and millions on offer overseas but we have a chance--just need passion , intelligence, class , vision AND hard work.

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