adelina76
Regular Member
Today (13th September) marks the beginning of the Wisden and Slazenger tournament, which are the NZ nationals for teams. This means its inter-provincial, e.g Auckland vs Wellington or Auckland vs Christchurch and so forth. The Wisden Cup is what the Division 1 players (comprising of most NZ national players vie to win, including the recent WC Bronze medalists, Sarah Runesten-Petersen and Daniel Shirley). Slazenger Cup is what the Division 2 players from each province try to bring home. The format works like this:
There's 16 games. 4 MS, 4 LS, 2MD, 2 LD and 4 XD. If games tied up at 8-all then it's countback on sets, and points (if sets are still tied).
I'm playing in the Slazenger Cup for Auckland and it will be my last tournament before heading overseas, so I'm quite excited about it, so I thought I would like to share this with you guys. After months of off court, body conditioning training and hours of shadow footwork, drills and backhand clears (hate that!), finally it's showtime! First up, Auckland is playing Canterbury, my old province, so that's going to be interesting. On paper, we should win, but it's going to be a struggle with Canterbury's line-up featuring 2 imported players - one's an ex state player from China (rumoured to give the top Canterbury guys a hiding in singles! *gulp*
) and the second is a lady from Japan, also very good!
Anyhow, win or lose, hopefully it'll be a fun tournament! I'll be playing the no.2 singles and either no.1 doubles or potentially no.3 or no.4 mix doubles. Wish me luck guys, coz I know I'm going to need it to play consistently well for 4 days in a row, oh my poor old body is going to be sore! :crying:
Cheeky KiWi - aDeLiNa
There's 16 games. 4 MS, 4 LS, 2MD, 2 LD and 4 XD. If games tied up at 8-all then it's countback on sets, and points (if sets are still tied).
I'm playing in the Slazenger Cup for Auckland and it will be my last tournament before heading overseas, so I'm quite excited about it, so I thought I would like to share this with you guys. After months of off court, body conditioning training and hours of shadow footwork, drills and backhand clears (hate that!), finally it's showtime! First up, Auckland is playing Canterbury, my old province, so that's going to be interesting. On paper, we should win, but it's going to be a struggle with Canterbury's line-up featuring 2 imported players - one's an ex state player from China (rumoured to give the top Canterbury guys a hiding in singles! *gulp*

Anyhow, win or lose, hopefully it'll be a fun tournament! I'll be playing the no.2 singles and either no.1 doubles or potentially no.3 or no.4 mix doubles. Wish me luck guys, coz I know I'm going to need it to play consistently well for 4 days in a row, oh my poor old body is going to be sore! :crying:
Cheeky KiWi - aDeLiNa
