Louisville Open

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Louisville Open
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded1970
Ended1979
Event nameLouisville Open (1970, 197379)
Louisville WCT (197172)
TourGrand Prix circuit (1970, 197379)
WCT circuit (197172)
SurfaceHard (1970)
Clay (197179)

The Louisville Open is a defunct Grand Prix and WCT affiliated tennis tournament played from 1970 to 1979. It was held in Louisville, Kentucky in the United States and played on outdoor hard courts in 1970 and on outdoor clay courts from 1971 to 1979.

Guillermo Vilas was the most successful player at the tournament, winning the singles competition three times and the doubles competition once with Pole Wojciech Fibak.

Results

Singles

Year Champion Runner-up Score
1970 Australia Rod Laver Australia John Newcombe 63, 63
1971 Netherlands Tom Okker South Africa Cliff Drysdale 36, 64, 61
1972 United States Arthur Ashe United Kingdom Mark Cox 64, 64
1973 Spain Manuel Orantes Australia John Newcombe 36, 63, 64
1974 Argentina Guillermo Vilas Chile Jaime Fillol 64, 75
1975 Argentina Guillermo Vilas Romania Ilie Năstase 64, 63
1976 United States Harold Solomon Poland Wojciech Fibak 62, 75
1977 Argentina Guillermo Vilas United States Eddie Dibbs 16, 60, 61
1978 United States Harold Solomon Australia John Alexander 62, 62
1979 Australia John Alexander United States Terry Moor 76, 67, 33 (Moor retired)

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1970 Australia John Newcombe / Australia Tony Roche Australia Roy Emerson / Australia Rod Laver Unavailable
1971 Not Completed
1972 Australia John Alexander / Australia Phil Dent United States Arthur Ashe / United States Robert Lutz 64, 63
1973 Spain Manuel Orantes / Romania Ion Ţiriac United States Clark Graebner / Australia John Newcombe 06, 64, 63
1974 Not Held
1975 Poland Wojciech Fibak / Argentina Guillermo Vilas India Anand Amritraj / India Vijay Amritraj 81
1976 South Africa Byron Bertram / South Africa Pat Cramer United States Stan Smith / United States Erik Van Dillen 63, 64
1977 Australia John Alexander / Australia Phil Dent Australia Chris Kachel / Australia Cliff Letcher 61, 64
1978 Poland Wojciech Fibak / Paraguay Victor Pecci United States Victor Amaya / Australia John James 64, 67, 64
1979 United States Marty Riessen / United States Sherwood Stewart India Vijay Amritraj / Mexico Raúl Ramírez 62, 16, 61

References


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