{{Short description|Women's tennis tournament}} {{TennisEventInfo|1996|Amway Classic| | date=1–6 January | edition=11th | category=[[WTA Tier IV Events|Tier IV]] | draw=32S / 16D | prize_money=$107,500 | surface=Hard / outdoor | location=[[Auckland]], New Zealand | venue=[[ASB Tennis Centre]] | champs={{flagicon|USA}} [[Sandra Cacic]] | champd={{flagicon|BEL}} [[Els Callens]] / {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Julie Halard-Decugis]] | main_name=WTA Auckland Open }}
The '''1996 Amway Classic''' was a women's [[tennis]] tournament played on outdoor [[Hard court]]s at the [[ASB Tennis Centre]] in [[Auckland]] in New Zealand that was part of [[WTA Tier IV Events|Tier IV]] of the [[1996 WTA Tour]]. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from 1 January until 6 January 1996. Qualifier [[Sandra Cacic]] won the singles title.<ref name="wot1997">{{cite book|title=International Tennis Federation World of Tennis 1997|year=1997|publisher=CollinsWillow|location=London|isbn=9780002187145|editor=John Barrett|editor-link=John Barrett (tennis)|pages=168, 183}}</ref>
==Finals== ===Singles=== {{main|1996 Amway Classic – Singles}} {{flagicon|USA}} [[Sandra Cacic]] defeated {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Barbara Paulus]] 6–3, 1–6, 6–4 * It was Cacic's only singles title of her career.
===Doubles=== {{main|1996 Amway Classic – Doubles}} {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Els Callens]] / {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Julie Halard-Decugis]] defeated {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Jill Hetherington]] / {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Kristine Kunce|Kristine Radford]] 6–1, 6–0 * It was Callens' only doubles title of the year and the 1st of her career. It was Halard-Decugis' only doubles title of the year and the 3rd of her career.
==See also== * [[1996 BellSouth Open]] – men's tournament
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/auckland/nzl/1995/w-wt-nzl-02a-1995/draws-and-results/ ITF tournament edition details] * [https://wtafiles.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/draws/archive/1996/1049.pdf WTA tournament draws]
{{ASB Classic tournaments}} {{1996 WTA Tour}}
[[Category:1996 WTA Tour|Amway Classic]] [[Category:WTA Auckland Open]] [[Category:1996 in New Zealand women's sport|AM]] [[Category:January 1996 sports events in Oceania|ASB]] [[Category:1996 in New Zealand tennis]]