Tipene Friday
Sven Eru Tipene Friday is a New Zealand professional basketball player and former first-class cricketer.
Early sporting career
Friday grew up playing rugby and cricket, as well as basketball in high school. He represented Wellington in cricket through the age-groups, and before he started playing basketball, he was named to the U17 national tournament team in 2007. Friday began playing basketball in early 2007, and by June 2009, he had been a part of three national championship teams, won back-to-back AA secondary schools titles with St. Patrick's College, and won another with Porirua at the BBNZ U21 Championships in 2008. He later played for the Junior Tall Blacks in July 2009 at the FIBA Under-19 World Championship and spent the 2009 New Zealand NBL season on the Wellington Saints training squad list. He also played for a Porirua squad that finished runners-up in the 2009 Open National Championships. He subsequently earned all-tournament team honours.Friday took up cricket again in 2010 and went on to play first-class cricket for Wellington, Auckland and Otago.