ASB Tennis Centre

The 2020 Auckland Open (sponsored by ASB Bank) was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 35th edition of the women's event, and the 44th edition of the men's event. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 6 to 12 January 2020 for the women, and from 13 to 18 January 2020 for the men.

The 2019 Auckland Open (sponsored by ASB Bank) was a joint ATP and WTA tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 34th edition of the women's event, and the 43rd edition of the men's event. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 31 December 2018 to 6 January 2019 for the women, and from 7 to 12 January 2019 for the men.

The 2016 Auckland Open (currently sponsored by ASB) was a joint 2016 ATP World Tour and 2016 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 31st edition of the women's event, and the 40th edition of the men's event. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 4 to 9 January 2016 for the women, and from 11 to 16 January 2016 for the men.

The 2018 Auckland Open (sponsored by ASB Bank) was a joint 2018 ATP World Tour and 2018 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 33rd edition of the women's event, and the 42nd edition of the men's event. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 1 to 7 January 2018 for the women, and from 8 to 13 January 2018 for the men.

The 2017 Auckland Open, also known by its sponsored name ASB Classic, was a joint 2017 ATP World Tour and 2017 WTA Tour tennis tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 32nd edition of the women's event, and the 41st edition of the men's event. It took place at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland, New Zealand, from 2 to 7 January 2017 for the women, and from 9 to 14 January 2017 for the men.

The ATP Auckland Open, commonly known by its sponsored name ASB Classic, is a professional men's tennis tournament in Auckland, New Zealand. The tournament is played annually at the ASB Tennis Centre, in Parnell. It is part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour. The tournament is held annually in January a week before the first Grand Slam tournament of the season, the Australian Open. The Auckland Open is expected to return in 2023 after the 2021 and 2022 events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic owing travel restrictions for international visitors to New Zealand.

Carlaw Park was a multi-purpose stadium in Parnell, a central suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It neighboured the Auckland Domain's Northern end. It was primarily used for rugby league and had a peak spectator capacity of around 28,000 in the 1930s, though this fell to around 17,000 by the time the ground was closed in 2002.

The Owen G. Glenn Building is the home of the Business School of the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, completed in late 2007. It is named after Owen G. Glenn ONZM, an expatriate New Zealand businessman who has donated to a number of philanthropic causes, as well as giving NZ$7.5 million to the business school.The building has 11 levels to serve the teaching and research activities of the school, and has been described as being "a series of layered sinuous blades anchored by a central atrium."The lowest levels feature teaching, learning and administrative spaces, while the higher floors contain offices for 287 staff, 80% of whom have individual offices. The basement of the building contains 1000 parking spaces.

The University of Auckland Faculty of Arts is a public university that offers courses in the arts located on Symonds Street, in Auckland. The faculty is seen as being the best of its kind in New Zealand and in 2007, it was ranked 32nd in the world.

St Andrew's First Presbyterian Church is a Neoclassical Presbyterianism church constructed in 1850 in the Auckland city centre, and is the oldest surviving church in Auckland. It is registered as a Category I heritage building by Heritage New Zealand.

Blandford Park, in Auckland, New Zealand, was the home of association football in Auckland for much of the 20th century, and one of the country's main football grounds. Located in Grafton Gully, northeast of Grafton Bridge, roughly between the northern part of Whitaker Place and the Auckland Bowls Club in Grafton Mews, it was razed in the mid-1960s, and its site is now occupied by on- and off-ramps to the Auckland Central Motorway Junction.The ground hosted a considerable number of notable football matches, including several international fixtures and many of the Auckland regional finals and national semi-finals of the Chatham Cup. Originally owned by Morgan Blandford (for whom it is named), the park was in existence at least as early as 1913. In 1923, Blandford leased the park to the Auckland Football Association for a period of 30 years, with an option to buy outright after that point. The park was unappealing at the time, with contemporary reports noting that it was swampy and seemed to be a general dumping ground. Over the course of the next two years, the AFA attempted to transform the park, clearing the land and adding terraces which could accommodate several thousand spectators. The park had easy access from Grafton Bridge and was handy to most of the city's main tram lines. The ground was officially opened in mid 1925. The marshiness of the ground was, however, still a major problem, and could not be easily remedied. The ground was located in a low-lying basin with considerable run-off from the surrounding hills. The situation was not helped by the AFA's decision to offer a 30-year sub-lease of the ground during football's off-season to another group, the Stadium Company. This group began to run cycling competitions at the ground, adding to the disrepair of the surface. Despite legal wrangles between the AFA and the Stadium Company, in which the AFA tried to terminate the sub-lease, the ground deterioration continued, with cycling, and later speedway still being run at the park. Other sports played at the park included softball, and the ground was the home of the Grafton Cricket Club. During the late 1940s, the AFA tried to negotiate with the Auckland City Council for the purchase of the park after the AFA lease expired. The council considered the offer but found that there were numerous problems: the ground was of an unsuitable size for most public sporting uses, its drainage problems still persisted, and - with the increase in private motor vehicle use - its lack of parking space was considered a distinct disadvantage. It was also noted at the time that the whole of the Grafton Gully area was likely to be needed for motorway use at some point in the not-too-distant future. In the end a compromise was reached, with the Auckland City Council acquiring the lease on the park and sub-letting it to the AFA. After a legal wrangle with the park's owners, the park became council property in 1953, earmarked for roading purposes. The AFA continued to use the ground as its headquarters until 1964, when it moved to Newmarket Park. With the building of the motorway the park initially became a dumping ground for quarried spoil before being buried beneath part of the motorway itself.

Boxing Alley is a boxing gym located in Auckland, New Zealand. The gym is known for training many professional athletes and celebrities in boxing, most notably former rugby league footballer and professional boxer, Monty Betham. It now caters to many boxing fitness enthusiasts.