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 1980 Men's Tennis Recap Page

Finals Date Tournament Venue Singles Winner
Jan. 4 Marlboro Australian Open (Melbourne) Brian Teacher
Jan. 6  Australian Hard Court Championships (Hobart) Shlomo Glickstein
Jan. 7 Benson & Hedges Open (Auckland)   John Sadri
Jan. 13  Western Australian Open  (Perth)  Colin Dibley
Jan. 18  Masters  (New York) Bjorn Borg
Jan. 20  Birmingham International Indoor   Jimmy Connors
Jan.20  First National Tennis Classic (Baltimore) Harold Solomon
Jan. 27  U.S. Pro Indoor Championships (Philadelphia) Jimmy Connors
Feb. 3 United Virginia Bank Tennis Classic (Richmond) John McEnroe
Feb. 3 San Juan Tennis Classic   Raul Ramirez
Feb. 10 Pepsi Grand Slam  (Boca Raton) Bjorn Borg
Feb. 17  Longboat Key Tennis Classic (Sarasota)   Eddie Dibbs
Feb. 24 WCT Invitational  (Salisbury) Bjorn Borg
Feb. 24  United Bank Tennis Classic (Denver) Gene Mayer
Mar. 2  U.S.National Indoor Championships (Memphis) John McEnroe
Mar. 2  Lagos Tennis Classic     Peter Feigl
Mar. 9 Volvo Tennis Classic  (Washington, D.C.) Victor Amaya
Mar. 9  Egyptian Open (Cairo) Corrado Barazzutti
Mar. 9  Kaduna Clay Courts    Chris Mayotte
Mar. 16  ABN World Tennis Tournament (Rotterdam) Heinz Gunthardt
Mar. 16  German Indoor Championships (Stuttgart) Tomas Smid
Mar. 16  Friendship Tournament  (Costa Rica)   Jose-Luis Clerc
Mar. 23  Frankfurt Indoor   Stan Smith
Mar. 23  Open de Lorraine  (Metz)   Gene Mayer
Mar. 23  International Indoor Championships of Austria (Linz)  Tony Graham
Mar. 30  Ramazzotti Cup (Milan) John McEnroe
Mar. 30 Dayton Pro Tennis Classic   Wojtek Fibak
Mar. 30 International Open Championships of Nice     Bjorn Borg
Apr. 6 Monte Carlo Volvo Open   Bjorn Borg
Apr. 6 Gulf States Tennis Classic  (New Orleans) Wojtek Fibak
Apr. 6  Robinson’s Men’s Tennis Open (Palm Harbor)  Paul McNamee
Apr. 6 San Luis Potosi Open    Adolpho Gonzalez
Apr. 8 Shimizu City  (Japan)  Markus Gunthardt
Apr. 13

 Adidas Open ’80

 (Japan)  Greg Whytecross
Apr. 13  Houston National Championships   Ivan Lendl
Apr. 13 Bank of Oklahoma Tennis Classic  (Tulsa)   Howard Schoenfield
Apr. 14

 Sigma Open

 (Johannesburg) Heinz Gunthardt
Apr. 20 Jack Kramer Open (Fountain Valley) Gene Mayer
Apr. 27 Alan King/Caesars Palace Tennis Classic  (Las Vegas) Bjorn Borg
May 4

WCT Finals

 (Dallas) Jimmy Connors
May 4  Grand Smash Cup  (Sao Paulo) Wojtek Fibak
May 4 Trofeo Fabrizio Matteoli (Rome)  Corrado Barazzutti
May 11  Trofeo Banea Fratelli Vallone (Galatina)  Gilles Moretton
May 11  WCT Tournament of Championships (Forest Hills) Vitas Gerulaitis
May 18 German Open (Hamburg) Harold Solomon
May 18 Alitalia Open  (Florence)   Adriano Panatta
May 25 Italian Open (Rome) Guillermo Vilas
May 25  American Express Cup (Munich) Rolf Gehring
June 8

 French Open

 (Paris) Bjorn Borg Vitas
June 8  Greater Manchester Gold Shield  Lawn Tennis Tournament  (West Didsbury) Roscoe Tanner
June 8  Beckenham Tennis Week    Onny Parun
June 8  Cuneo International    Ricardo Cano
June 15  Stella Artois Grass Court Championships (London) John McEnroe
June 15  International Championships of Belgium (Brussels) Peter McNamara
June 22 Surrey Grass Court Championships  (Surbiton) Brian Gottfried
June 22 WPC-Festwochen (Vienna)   Angel Gimenez
July 6 Villa Bollis Tennis Tournament (Lugo)   Tony Giammalva
July 6

 

 Wimbledon

(London) Bjorn Borg
July 13 International Championships of Switzerland  $125,000 (Gstaad) Heinz Gunthardt
July 13  Miller Hall of Fame Championships (Newport) Vijay Amritraj
July 20  U.S. Pro Championships (Boston)  Eddie Dibbs
July 20  Swedish Open (Bastad) Balazs Taroczy
July 20  Mercedes-Benz Cup (Stuttgart) Vitas Gerulaitis
July 27 Washington Star International   Brian Gottfried
July 27 Head Cup (Kitzbühel) Guillermo Vilas
July 27

International Championships of the Netherlands

(Hilversum) Balazs Taroczy
Aug. 3 Volvo International  (North Conway) Jimmy Connors
Aug. 3 Mutual Benefit Life Open (South Orange) Jose-Luis Clerc
Aug. 10  U.S. Clay Court Championships  (Indianapolis) Jose-Luis Clerc
Aug. 10  National Revenue Tennis Classic (Columbus) Bob Lutz
Aug. 10  Zell Am See (Austria)   Peter McNamara
Aug. 17 Royan  (France)  Christophe Casa
Aug. 17  

 Player’s International Canadian Open

(Toronto) Ivan Lendl
Aug. 17  Stowe Grand Prix   Bob Lutz
Aug. 17 Western Open  (Cleveland) Gene Mayer
Aug. 24  ATP Championship (Cincinnati) Harold Solomon
Aug. 24  Atlanta Journal-Constitution Open   Eliot Teltscher
Aug. 24  Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)  Carlos Kirmayr
Aug. 24  Le Touquet (France)  Christophe Casa
Aug. 30  Itau Cup (Porte Alegre)  Thomas Koch
Sept. 1  Brussels (Belgium)  Kjell Johansson
Sept. 6  Itau Cup (Curitiba)  Gustavo Guerrero
Sept. 7 Turin    Robbie Venter
Sept. 7  U.S. Open (Flushing Meadows) John McEnroe
Sept. 14  Palermo Grand Prix   Guillermo Vilas
Sept. 14  Hard Court Championships of Great Britain (Bournemouth)  Angel Gimenez
Sept. 14  Itau Cup  (Campinas)  Ricardo Cano
Sept. 21  Cozena    Ricardo Ycaza
Sept. 21  Itau CupMasters   (Sao Paulo) Jose Damiani
Sept. 28  Transamerica Open  (San Francisco) Gene Mayer
Sept. 28  Martini Open  (Geneva) Balazs Taroczy
Sept. 28  Grand Prix de Passing Shot (Bordeaux) Mario Martinez
Sept. 30 Messina, Italy    Anders Jarryd
Oct. 5  Copa Linaje  (Mexico City)  Jorge Andrew
Oct. 5  Madrid Grand Prix   Jose-Luis Clerc
Oct. 5  Island Holidays Pro Tennis Classic  (Maui) Eliot Teltscher
Oct. 12  Spanish Open Championships (Barcelona) Ivan Lendl
Oct. 12  Israel Tennis Center Classic (Tel Aviv)   Harold Solomon
Oct. 12  Robinson’s Classic (Brisbane)   John McEnroe
Oct. 19  Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships (Sydney) John McEnroe
Oct. 19  Canton Grand Prix   (China) Jimmy Connors
Oct. 19  Swiss Indoor Tennis Championships  (Basel) Ivan Lendl
Oct. 26  Japan & Asian Open (Tokyo) Ivan Lendl
Oct. 26 Hortico Melbourne Indoor Championships   Vitas Gerulaitis
Oct. 26  Fischer Grand Prix (Vienna) Brian Gottfried
Nov. 2  Seiko World Super Tennis (Tokyo)  Jimmy Connors
Nov. 2 Lacoste Cup (Cologne) Bob Lutz
Nov. 2  Crocodile Open (Paris)   Brian Gottfried
Nov. 9  Stockholm Open   Bjorn Borg
Nov. 9  Seiko Hong Kong Tennis Classic   Ivan Lendl
Nov. 9

  Quito Grand Prix 

   Jose-Luis Clerc
Nov. 16  Benson & Hedges Open  (London) John McEnroe
Nov. 16  Cathay Trust Tennis Championships (Taipei)  Ivan Lendl
Nov. 16  Bogota Grand Prix     Dominique Bedel
Nov. 23 South American Open  (Buenos Aires) Jose-Luis Clerc
Nov. 23

 Italian Indoor Championships

(Bologna) Tomas Smid
Nov. 23  Bangkok Tennis Classic   Vijay Amritraj
Nov. 30  South African Brewers Open  (Johannesburg) Kim Warwick
Nov. 30  Int’l. Championships of Chile  (Santiago)   Victor Pecci
Nov. 30  Dubai Golden Tennis Tournament   Wojtek Fibak
Dec. 7  Buenos Aires (Argentina)  Eduardo Bengoechea
Dec. 14  WCT Challenge Cup  (Montreal) John McEnroe
Dec. 21  Nabisco New South Wales Open  (Sydney) Fritz Buehning
Dec. 21  Sofia, Bulgaria   Per Hjertqvist

 

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