1979 World Championship Tennis Finals

The 1979 World Championship Tennis Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 9th edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was played at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas in the United States and was held from May 1 through May 6, 1979.[1][2][3]

1979 World Championship Tennis Finals
DateMay 1 – May 6
Edition9th
CategoryGrand Prix
Draw8S
Prize money$200,000
SurfaceCarpet / Indoor
LocationDallas, TX, United States
VenueMoody Coliseum
Champions
Singles
John McEnroe

Final

Singles

John McEnroe defeated Björn Borg 7–5, 4–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–5)

  • It was McEnroe's 9th title of the year and the 20th of his career.
gollark: This page is protected against creationThis page has been protected against creation and cannot be created without administrator help; by far the most common reason for this to happen is that it has been repeatedly created by spambots and has been protected to prevent those spambots attacking it in the future. If you do need to create a page at this title, place a request for the page to be unprotected (for instance at the Talk page of the administrator who protected it; check this page's history to find out who that was).
gollark: Do trees know how to use TeX™?
gollark: TeX: Experience pure suffering™.
gollark: xet?
gollark: Yay!

See also

References

  1. World of Tennis 1980. London: Queen Anne P. 1980. pp. 176–179. ISBN 978-0362020113.
  2. "'Junior' Comes of Age". The Sydney Morning Herald. May 13, 1979. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  3. "Pouty McEnroe Upsets Borg". Toledo Blade. AP. May 7, 1979. p. 17.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.