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Air Pacific/Adidas Fiji Open and Veterans events
The Air Pacific/Adidas Fiji Open and Veterans Championship was held at the Denarau Golf and Racquets Club in Fiji from 26 to 30 May. New Caledonia players dominated the open events winning the singles and doubles titles.
Players from New Zealand took out many of the veterans age group events with former NZL Davis Cup lpayers David Mustard and Bruce Derlin prominent.
For details of the major open events read on.
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Goodman Fielder ITF POJC Finals
The Goodman Fielder ITF Pacific Oceania Junior Championships are underway at the Goodman Fielder International Regional Tennis Centre in Lautoka.
The photo shows some of the players at the opening ceremony on Monday 26 July. Among them are 12/u players who are competing for the first time. Four boys and four girls in the 18/u age group will receive wildcards into next week's Air Pacific Oceania Closed Junior Championships.
Results will be available each evening in the Junior section under POJC. Day four results have been uploaded.
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Pacific Oceania beat Malaysia 3-2
Michael Leong won his third straight match of the tie taking the first reverse singles to bring victory to Pacific Oceania in their Group 2 playoff tie in Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia substituted their number one player with Ariez Elyaas Deen Heshaam who competed well despite his lack of experience.
Leong won 61 60 61 but it took almost two hours to see off the determined Malaysian.
Cyril Jacobe lost the final rubber against the Malaysian number 2 player 75 76(2).
Meanwhile New Zealand completed a 3-2 win over Pakistan to take them into the final of Asia/Oceania Group 2 to be played in September.
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Air Pacific South Pacific Open Junior Championships
The Air Pacific South Pacific Open Junior Championships concluded at the Goodman Fielder International Regional Tennis Centre in Lautoka on Sunday 4 July.
The singles finals were both straightforward matches for the higher seeds. Emily Fanning (NZL), at right of picture had a comprehensive win over Anaeve Pain (CAL) 60 61. Nick Kyrgios (AUS), seeded three and at the left in the photo scored an excellent win over Dekel Bar (ISR) 63 61.
The doubles finals were completed yesterday with the boys won by Alex Hamilton of New Zealand and Ji Hoon Heo from Northern Mariana Islands. The girls doubles was a triumph for the New Zealand pairing of Emily Fanning and Heidi Stewart who outclassed the Pacific pair of Anaeve Pain and Steffi Carruthers for the loss of only one game.
Results can be found in the juniors section of the website.
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