# 1996 Amway Classic > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/1996_Amway_Classic > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/1996_Amway_Classic.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Amway_Classic > Source revision: 1315103542 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Women's tennis tournament Tennis tournament 1996 Amway Classic Date 1–6 January Edition 11th Category Tier IV Draw 32S / 16D Prize money $107,500 Surface Hard / outdoor Location Auckland, New Zealand Venue ASB Tennis Centre Champions Singles Sandra Cacic Doubles Els Callens / Julie Halard-Decugis ← 1995 · WTA Auckland Open · 1997 → The **1996 Amway Classic** was a women's [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on outdoor [Hard courts](/source/Hard_court) at the [ASB Tennis Centre](/source/ASB_Tennis_Centre) in [Auckland](/source/Auckland) in New Zealand that was part of [Tier IV](/source/WTA_Tier_IV_Events) of the [1996 WTA Tour](/source/1996_WTA_Tour). It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from 1 January until 6 January 1996. Qualifier [Sandra Cacic](/source/Sandra_Cacic) won the singles title.[1] ## Finals ### Singles Main article: [1996 Amway Classic – Singles](/source/1996_Amway_Classic_%E2%80%93_Singles) [Sandra Cacic](/source/Sandra_Cacic) defeated [Barbara Paulus](/source/Barbara_Paulus) 6–3, 1–6, 6–4 - It was Cacic's only singles title of her career. ### Doubles Main article: [1996 Amway Classic – Doubles](/source/1996_Amway_Classic_%E2%80%93_Doubles) [Els Callens](/source/Els_Callens) / [Julie Halard-Decugis](/source/Julie_Halard-Decugis) defeated [Jill Hetherington](/source/Jill_Hetherington) / [Kristine Radford](/source/Kristine_Kunce) 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](/source/1996_BellSouth_Open) – men's tournament ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-wot1997_1-0)** [John Barrett](/source/John_Barrett_(tennis)), ed. (1997). *International Tennis Federation World of Tennis 1997*. London: CollinsWillow. pp. 168, 183. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780002187145](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780002187145). ## External links - [ITF tournament edition details](https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/auckland/nzl/1995/w-wt-nzl-02a-1995/draws-and-results/) - [WTA tournament draws](https://wtafiles.blob.core.windows.net/pdf/draws/archive/1996/1049.pdf) v t e WTA Auckland tournaments 1985 NH 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 NH NH 2023 2024 2025 2026 v t e 1996 WTA Tour « 1995 1997 » Grand Slam events Australian Open (S, D, X) French Open (S, D, X) Wimbledon (S, D, X) US Open (S, D, X) Tier I tournaments Tokyo Indoor (S, D) Key Biscayne (S, D) Hilton Head (S, D) Rome (S, D) Berlin (S, D) Montreal (S, D) Zürich (S, D) Tier II tournaments Sydney (S, D) Paris (S, D) Essen (S, D) Indian Wells (S, D) Amelia Island (S, D) Hamburg (S, D) Madrid (S, D) Eastbourne (S, D) Manhattan Beach (S, D) San Diego (S, D) Tokyo (S, D) Leipzig (S, D) Filderstadt (S, D) Chicago (S, D) Oakland (S, D) Philadelphia (S, D) Tier III tournaments Oklahoma City (S, D) Linz (S, D) Jakarta (S, D) Tokyo Outdoor (S, D) Strasbourg (S, D) Birmingham (S, D) Rosmalen (S, D) Warsaw (S, D) Quebec City (S, D) Luxembourg (S, D) Moscow (S, D) Tier IV tournaments Auckland (S, D) Hobart (S, D) Bol (S, D) Budapest (S, D) Cardiff (S, D) Palermo (S, D) Maria Lankowitz (S, D) Karlovy Vary (S, D) Surabaya (S, D) Beijing (S, D) Pattaya (S, D) Team events Fed Cup Chase Championships, New York (S, D) Summer Olympics, Atlanta (S, D) World Doubles Cup, Edinburgh (D) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [1996 Amway Classic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Amway_Classic) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Amway_Classic?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.