HAMILTON — The New Zealand Davis Cup team for the tie against Indonesia in Hamilton this week are in good form for their semifinal Asia/Oceania Group II tie.
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AUCKLAND — 9th FIBA U19 World Championship for Men.
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AUCKLAND — Note: New Zealand play Kazakhstan at 7.30pm Saturday evening at the North Shore Events Centre.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The USA, Croatia, Spain and Puerto Rico claimed wins on the first session of basketball’s FIBA U19 World Championship in Auckland on Thursday.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The FIBA Under 19 Men’s World Championship, starting in Auckland later this week, will have an impact that reaches well beyond basketball fans, thanks to the support of the government.
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AUCKLAND CITY — The LG Mystics found being 12 goals behind at half time just a little too tough against leading side, the Melbourne Vixens in their latest ANZ Championship match at the Trusts Stadium in Auckland.
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AUCKLAND — Sporting heroes and local dignitaries will gather at Alexandra Park in Auckland next Wednesday 24 June to celebrate 1000 New Zealand Olympians.
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AUCKLAND — Waikato teenager Bjorn Seguin will be aiming to continue his unbeaten run in New Zealand as he competes in the US$5,000 Auckland International badminton tournament in Auckland starting today at Gillies Ave, Epsom.
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Kia Motors New Zealand is delighted to announce that New Zealand has been named one of 16 countries to compete in the 2010 Kia Amateur Australian Open.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Around 200 volunteers will gather for briefing at the North Shore Events Centre on Monday 15 June to be part of basketball’s 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men.
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AUCKLAND — Top international badminton returns to Auckland and the Gillies Ave courts with the Auckland International starting Thursday 18 July featuring prizemoney worth US$5,000 and plenty of Indonesias rising stars as well as players from Australia, Mexico and the Czech Republic.
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The LG Northern Mystics were beaten by the Adelaide Thunderbirds in their latest ANZ Championship match in Adelaide over the weekend in what can only be described as an overly-physical encounter.
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AUCKLAND — It took until the dying minutes of the match, but the LG Mystics finished with a win against the Canterbury Tactix 47-46 in the ANZ Championship netball match at the Trusts Stadium in Auckland on Monday night.
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North Island U19 tournament, Wanganui.
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Wellington Paralympic cyclist, Paula Tesoriero has broken her own world record and won two more gold medals at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.
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Wellington’s cycling gold medalist from the Beijing Paralympics, Paula Tesoriero has again proven she is one of the world’s best, winning gold in the 500m time trial at the Paralympic World Cup this morning in Manchester in a time of 43.417 seconds, just shy of her 43.237 world record time in Beijing.
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The Paralympics New Zealand team returned home with plenty of medals and good results from the recent Arafura Games, incorporating the Oceania Paralympic championships in Darwin.
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ROTORUA — The LG Mystics came out defeated in their latest battle in the ANZ Championship as the clash with the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic in Rotorua on Monday night became literally a war on the court with numerous players suffering bruising on both team with a little blood thrown in too.
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A frenetic start to the LG Mystics clash with the Steel kept the large crowd at the Trusts Stadium enthralled but couldn’t give the home team the victory it was aiming for in the ANZ Championship.
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Wanaka resident Jon Turnbull has been confirmed by Paralympics New Zealand as the Chef de Mission for the 2010 Winter Paralympics to be held in Vancouver.
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Teenage Waikato badminton player Bjorn Seguin continued his domination in singles at events around the country, but the more veteran competitors are still holding onto the doubles titles after the latest tournament of the season.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Age hasn’t been a barrier for the players with more experience at the North Harbour Badminton Open with several, so call veterans making finals.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — It was business as usual for the majority of seeds in the opening rounds of the 2009 North Harbour Badminton Open.
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An event which promises to be one of the sporting highlights of the year in New Zealand has taken another major step forward with the announcement of ticket sales for the 2009 U19 FIBA World Championship for Men to be held in Auckland 2-12 July.
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WELLINGTON — It wasn’t pretty, but it was a win as the LG Mystics beat the Central Pulse 61-60 in Wellington in the ANZ Championship on Monday night.
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New Zealand Paralympic shooter Michael Johnson has recorded a three-medal haul from the 2009 IPC Shooting Open Asian Championship at the Jikji Cup in South Korea.
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 A couple of tough decisions by the referees and a couple of loose passes were the difference between the LG Mystics and the New South Wales Swifts on Monday night in Sydney.
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Paralympics New Zealand is pleased to announce the team that will compete at the Arafura Games (incorporating the Oceania Paralympic Championships) in Darwin, Australia 9th - 17th May 2009.
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The full schedule for the 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship to be held in Auckland from July 2-12 has been confirmed in what is going to be a sporting highlight of 2009 in New Zealand.
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The New Zealand Northern No1 team has won the title for Australasian under-17 badminton supremacy with a victory over the Victoria Rebels in the June Bevan tournament in Ballarat.
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WELLINGTON — Southland’s Anna Rankin waited a long time, but finally gained her first ever national badminton title after winning the women’s singles at the New Zealand U23 National Championships held in Wellington.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Auckland players have sent out an early indicator of form for the season by dominating the inaugural New Zealand under 23 badminton championships held in Wellington.
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It wasn’t the start the LG Mystics wanted as they lost in the first match of the season to the last year's runners-up Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic at Trusts Stadium in front of a capacity crowd.
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AUCKLAND — Reigning Oceania Poomsae (patterns) Taekwondo champions Ara Cho and Peter Woon, both from the Ace club in Auckland won the top divisions of the women’s and men’s individual titles on the second and final day of the TNZ New Zealand Open in Auckland.
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WELLINGTON — Kiwi No2 Dan King-Turner has won the singles title at the US$15,000 tennis Futures in Wellington, his first Futures title in New Zealand and his fourth overall.
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AUCKLAND — New Zealand taekwondo Olympian Robin Cheong, a seventh placed finisher at the Beijing Olympics, was a shock semifinal loser at the Taekwondo New Zealand Open at Avondale College in Auckland over the weekend.
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WELLINGTON CITY — New Zealand tennis No2 Dan King-Turner has put on one of his better performances to reach the final of the US$15,000 ASB Pro Circuit tennis Futures in Wellington.
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WELLINGTON CITY — Dan King-Turner and GD Jones won their second doubles final of the US$15,000 ASB Pro Circuit tennis Futures with a 6-2 6-4 over fellow Kiwi Marcus Daniell and Australian Joel Lindner in horrendous conditions at the Renouf Tennis Centre in Wellington where tree branches were being blown down.
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WELLINGTON CITY — New Zealand tennis No2 Dan King-Turner has won his way into the semifinals of the US$15,000 ASB Pro Circuit tennis Futures in Wellington with an upset victory over top seed and 193rd ranked Carsten Ball of Australia.
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WELLINGTON — The Kiwi men continued their run at the US$15,000 tennis Futures in Wellington with both Dan King-Turner and Rubin Statham going to three sets to eventually make the quarterfinals For King-Turner and Statham to go another round and make the weekend’s play they will need big efforts in the ASB sponsored event.
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WELLINGTON CITY — New Zealand’s top two men’s players had straight set wins into the second round of the Futures tennis tournament in Wellington but several other Kiwis struggled to finish off their matches when they had the advantage in a match..
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New Zealand may have found a new star in tennis with recently turned 16-year-old Katherine Westbury gaining a win over a seeded player in the opening match of the Wellington tennis Futures tournament.
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WELLINGTON — New Zealand players will have to contend with their opponents and some potentially inclement weather at week three of the Futures international tennis events which starts at Wellington’s Renouf Tennis Centre tomorrow (Tuesday).
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HAMILTON — The run of Dan King-Turner came to a sudden halt in the semifinals of the tennis Futures in Hamilton as Japan’s Tatsuma Ito became the Kiwi destroyer scoring his fourth consecutive victory over New Zealand players in a row.
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HAMILTON — New Zealand No2 Dan King-Turner has kept local hopes alive after a strong win in the quarterfinals of the US$15,000 Pro Circuit tennis Futures in Hamilton.
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HAMILTON — Two New Zealanders have made the quarterfinals the Pro Circuit tennis Futures in Hamilton with very different journeys to the last eight.
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HAMILTON — It wasn’t easy but two New Zealand players took the long road to make the second round of singles at the ASB Pro Circuit tennis Futures in Hamilton.
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HAMILTON — There are plenty of opportunities for local players on day one of the Hamilton leg of the ASB Pro Circuit tennis Futures with five Kiwis lining up for first round singles matches.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The lower seeds had it all over their higher ranked opponents in the finals of week one of the ASB Pro Circuit at Albany with Australian Rameez Junaid and Hong Kong’s Ling Zhang winning their respective men’s and women’s finals.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — Two Australians will meet in the mens final of the ASB Pro Circuit Tennis Futures at Albany Tennis Park, North Harbour after they were forced to move their semifinals indoors as a result of persistent rain.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — New Zealand’s run in singles at the ASB Pro Circuit came to a sudden end in the quarterfinals of the US$15,000 men’s draw with Kiwi No1 Rubin Statham the tournament fifth seed at the event in Albany, North Harbour losing to the fourth seed Artem Sitak of Russia in amongst numerous rain delays.
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NORTH SHORE CITY — The New Zealand combination of Dan King-Turner and GD Jones won their fourth Futures doubles title together after a straight set win against their Chinese opponents at the US$15,000 ASB Pro Circuit at Albany Tennis Park, North Harbour.
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