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Air Pacific Fiji Open 2008
Oceania Tennis are delighted to announce that Air Pacific have renewed their sponsorhip of events in Fiji for 2008. The first sponsored tournament for the year is the Air Pacific Fiji Open. It will be held from 28 May to 1 June.
Following on from last year's very successful centenary Open the 2008 event will feature some 40 events. Organiser John Shannon is hoping the "tournament for all ages" will be even bigger this year on the grass and synthetic grass courts at Denarau Golf and Racquets Club.
Entry forms and further information on the timing of the event and accommodation options can be found in the Senior section of the website under South Pacific Games.
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Pacific Oceania Junior Fed Cup
The Pacific Oceania Junior Fed Cup team beat Philippines 2-1 to finish 11th at the Asia/Oceania Junior Fed Cup competition in Bangkok in May.
The team scored three wins and lost three, all to seeded nations during the week long competition. The final placing is the best performance of a Pacific Oceania team at an ITF teams competition. Australia finished 5th and New Zealand 10th.
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Pacific Oceania Lose 3-2 to Oman
Pacific Oceania lost the vital doubles rubber in five sets on day two of the Davis Cup tie with Oman played in Muscat. Brett Baudinet and Cyril Jacobe took on the highly fancied Oman brother pairing and competed well throughout. They endured the heartbreak of Jacobe serving for the match in the fourth set before Oman edged them out in the fifth to calim the win 76(3) 57 36 76(3) 64
Pacific Oceania will be relegated to Group 3 of Davis Cup for 2009 after losing the first three rubber in the tie with Oman. However they came out and played well in the two dead rubber singles matches on Sunday with Michael leong beating the Oman number one in three sets and then Juan Langton taking the final rubber 61 64. This made the final score a 3-2 to Oman
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Oceania ITF Junior Circuit June
The BNP Paribas New Caledonia ITF Junior Open and Air Pacific South Pacific Open Junior Championships are tournaments on the ITF World Junior Circuit. The New Caledonia tournament will be held in Noumea from 22 to 27 June and the SPOJC will be in Lautoka, Fiji, from 30 June to 5 July. Entry forms and fact sheets for both tournaments are now available in the Junior section of this website.
Entries for New Caledonia are to be sent to gwinter@lagoon.nc and for Fiji to patrick@oceaniatennis.com Please send entries by Friday 30 May.
Special circle airfares are available through Air Calin to enable players to compete in both tournaments. Players from NZL should contact Air Calin in Auckland and players in Australia should contact New Caledonia tournament organiser Gerard Winter who can help with fares from Australia.
The tournaments are folowed by the New Zealand Indoor in Auckland or the two events in Darwin.
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