Fed Cup Asia-Oceania zone tournament in Christchurch threatened
Posted on April 3, 2007
Filed Under Tennis, Sports News
April 2, Wellington, New Zealand - An unspecified security threat was addressed to the International Tennis Federation in London putting in danger the Fed Cup Asia-Oceania zone tournament in Christchurch, but the security will resolve the problem as well as the police will find out who launched the threat.
  
On April 18 the tournament will start with the participating teams form India, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, New Zealand, Syria, Jordan and Singapore.
Tournament director David Blackwell stated that organizers are working with the police in New Zealand and nothing will threat the tournament to start, but he hasn’t released any important details about the problem.
“It was a bit of a bolt out of the blue initially.” Blackwell said.
He also said that the police are acting as they should be and already the threat is gone but there still is a possibility for it to reappear. Certain is that 18 April will emerge as planed.
