The 1996 Amway Classic was a women's
tennis
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tournament played on
outdoor hard courts at the
ASB Tennis Centre
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in
Auckland
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in New Zealand that was part of
Tier IV of the
1996 WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis circuit, organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The 1996 WTA Tour included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier I ...
. The tournament was held from 1 January until 6 January 1996. Qualifier
Sandra Cacic
Sandra Cacic (born September 10, 1974) is a retired American tennis player. She is of Croatian American descent and
her Croatian surname is .
Her highest WTA singles ranking is 39th, which she achieved on May 9, 1994. Her career-high in doub ...
won the singles title.
Finals
Singles
Sandra Cacic
Sandra Cacic (born September 10, 1974) is a retired American tennis player. She is of Croatian American descent and
her Croatian surname is .
Her highest WTA singles ranking is 39th, which she achieved on May 9, 1994. Her career-high in doub ...
defeated
Barbara Paulus
Barbara Paulus (born 1 September 1970) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. She began playing on the WTA Tour in 1986 and retired in 2001. During her career, she won a total of seven WTA tournaments (six singles titles, one double ...
6–3, 1–6, 6–4
* It was Cacic's only singles title of her career.
Doubles
Els Callens
Els Callens (born 20 August 1970) is a former professional female tennis player from Belgium.
Callens became professional in January 1990.
Her biggest achievement came in 2000 during the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney where she won the bronze m ...
/
Julie Halard-Decugis
Julie Halard-Decugis (born 10 September 1970) is a French former professional tennis player.
Tennis career
Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France, during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland. She turned profe ...
defeated
Jill Hetherington
Jill Hetherington-Hultquist (born October 27, 1964) is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She played college tennis for the University of Florida, and was women's tennis head coach at the University of Washington until May 2014.
Colle ...
/
Kristine Radford 6–1, 6–0
* It was Callens' only title of the year and the 1st of her career. It was Halard-Decugis' 1st title of the year and the 7th of her career.
See also
*
1996 BellSouth Open – men's tournament
References
External links
ITF tournament edition details
{{1996 WTA Tour
Amway Classic
WTA Auckland Open
AM
ASB
1996 in New Zealand tennis