WTA Auckland Open

WTA Auckland Open
Tournament information
Founded1956 (1956)
LocationAuckland
New Zealand
VenueASB Tennis Centre
CategoryWTA 250
SurfaceHard (Plexicushion) - outdoors
Draw32S / 24Q / 16D
Prize moneyUS$267,082 (2024)
Websiteasbclassic.co.nz
Current champions (2024)
SinglesUnited States Coco Gauff
DoublesKazakhstan Anna Danilina
Slovakia Viktória Hrunčáková

The WTA Auckland Open (currently sponsored by ASB Bank and called the ASB Classic) is a professional women's tennis tournament in Auckland, New Zealand. The tournament is played annually, in the first week of January, at the ASB Tennis Centre in the suburb of Parnell, just east of the Central Business District. It is an International level tournament in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) World Tour. The equivalent men's event, the ATP Auckland Open, is played in the following week, immediately ahead of the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open.

The ASB Classic returned in 2023 after the 2021 and 2022 events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic owing travel restrictions for international visitors to New Zealand.[1][2][3]

Ana Ivanovic of Serbia was the 2014 singles champion
  1. ^ "2021 ASB Classic cancelled". Stuff. 6 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Tennis: ASB Classic cancelled for second straight year". NZ Herald. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  3. ^ "ASB Classic to return to Auckland after 2-year hiatus". 1 News. 7 June 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

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