Almost a decade after liquefaction and tremors produced the last surface Tennis Canterbury needed at Wilding Park, a plan to clone the courts used at grand slam venues is running smoothly. “One of the grass courts will be a feature court so we can host the Davis Cup.”Wilding Park being repaired in 2016. They then convinced the Wilding Park Foundation, which owns the Linwood complex to retain the block which used to accommodate nine grass courts. “Fortunately we were able to convince the foundation board to hold on to it and more excitingly we’ve appointed a contractor to reinstate the nine grass courts,” Forbes said. Centre court at Wilding Park as it looks now.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 27, 2020 22:07 UTC