Visiting players fill all eight men's seedings in the Otago Indoor Open this weekend.
The tournament is dominated by Canterbury players, who hold five of the seedings.
Vaughan Kingi (Canterbury), last year's Otago Open winner and Otago Indoor champion, is the top seed and seems to have a dream draw.
This should help him avoid the cramping problems he has suffered here in recent events.
Young Canterbury players Oliver Petri, Michael Saunders and Patrick Nolan take further spots and an international flavour is added by the presence of Jan Carboch (Czech Republic), the third seed, and Mattias Wieland, a Swiss player based in Christchurch.
Jono Ussher (Taranaki), a student in Otago, has been seeded sixth, and Robin Jamieson (North Otago) rounds out the eight.
Albert Hailes, also from North Otago, recently won the Otago junior 18s indoor title and is proven on the slow surface.
While there is great depth in the local young talent, no one player looks likely to threaten the top few, but they should benefit from the experience and they are to be commended for taking up the challenge.
Thirty men have entered but again a disappointing field of only five women will start.
Georgia Hume, back from the national junior champs, and Canterbury's Brittany Fisher will meet in what could be a virtual final in the last round of the round robin.
Kingi and Ussher are top seeds in the men's doubles but could face a test from either Petri and Patricio Angelone or Carboch and Wieland who have the next two seedings.
Singles finals are scheduled for about 11am tomorrow, with doubles to follow.
Consolation events will be held and will ensure a busy programme to test the end-of-season fitness.
