{"id":270959,"date":"2026-02-06T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270959\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:07:09","slug":"davis-cup-whangarei-bosnia-and-herzegovina-face-new-zealand-in-first-northland-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270959\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup Whang\u0101rei: Bosnia and Herzegovina face New Zealand in first Northland tie"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand named a five-strong team for their Davis Cup World Group I Play-Off tie. The players are: James Watt, Ajeet Rai, Anton Shepp, Finn Reynolds and Isaac Becroft.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew Zealand Davis Cup Captain Artem Sitak is looking forward to the team\u2019s tie against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Whang\u0101rei this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Davis Cup, known as the World Cup of Tennis, is expected to generate $140,000 in direct spending in Whang\u0101rei with 1000 visitor nights, and attract 130,000 New Zealanders watching the live broadcast and a potential global audience of millions as it is screened for free worldwide.<\/p>\n

The tournament is one of the world\u2019s oldest international sporting events and involves the best men\u2019s teams from more than 150 nations competing each year.<\/p>\n

Tennis Northland general manager Brittany White said having the first-ever Davis Cup tie in the region was exciting and would provide great action and inspiration for the region\u2019s players, particularly young ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocals are having such a big part to play with the ballboys and girls, all local youth tennis players.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be amazing for them to see up close how the professional players work, and it will be so cool for them to see what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

White said the event was timely, with tennis high on people\u2019s radar after the Australian Open and ASB Classic in Auckland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s saying we are here and we can do this, and I\u2019m excited about what other events we could host in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tennis NZ commercial and marketing manager Gareth Archer<\/a> said with only a few dozen tickets left at midday on Wednesday, he was confident the event would sell out. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s very satisfying for us, Tennis Northland, and all involved,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to know how things will go, but this has certainly exceeded expectations, and it\u2019s a testament to Northland sports fans, who always get behind their local teams and national teams when they come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archer said Tennis NZ was keen to take its events away from the main centres and into new areas, so the response from Northland was reassuring, after well-attended ties in Invercargill and Palmerston North.<\/p>\n

TNZ bought a portable tennis court several years ago and it has been installed in McKay Stadium for the tie, with players from both sides spending this week practising on it ahead of the tie.<\/p>\n

Archer said the tie is being screened live on Sky in New Zealand and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the Davis Cup has an online TV channel where the game can be watched for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand named a five-strong team for their Davis Cup World Group I Play-Off tie. The players are:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,109468,10542,56447,22771,1872,9517,1888,32503,14236,109470,78,39533,117,111,43,139,1067,69,3217,109469,1865,1869,5977,80],"class_list":["post-270959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-bosnia","tag-cup","tag-davis","tag-excited","tag-face","tag-fans","tag-first","tag-firstever","tag-held","tag-herzegovina","tag-in","tag-kicking","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-tennis","tag-tie","tag-today","tag-whangrei","tag-which","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}