Yanina Wickmayer's love affair with Auckland is showing no signs of dimming, with the 23-year-old Belgian within a match of a third Auckland women's classic final in four years.

Global tennis star Rafael Nadal is being lined up to play in the Auckland tennis open next month, nine years after he appeared on the backcourts as a virtual unknown.

She's won more than US$11 million in prize money, made the final at Wimbledon this year and is clearly the class act of the ASB Classic field, but the world's fourth-best female tennis player Agnieszka Radwanska is hardly a household name in New Zealand.

China's Zheng Jie has won the final of the ASB Classic 2-6, 6-3, 2-0 against Italian Flavia Penetta...

Flavia Pennetta strolled through to tomorrow's final at the ASB Classic after annihilating Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-2 in just 59 minutes in today's first semifinal.