Danilidou awarded final ASB wildcard

Tournament director Brenda Perry has handed out the final main draw wildcard for next week's ASB Classic.

As expected two times former champion Eleni Danilidou, a long time supporter of the tournament has received the final main draw wildcard.

The Greek player has hit lean times of late and her ranking has slipped to 146th in the world.

The top two seeds, world number four Elena Dementieva and 12th ranked Caroline Wozniacki, arrive in Auckland late on Friday.

Meanwhile singles qualifying featuring two New Zealanders, Diane Hollands and Kairangi Vano, will get underway on Saturday.