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Duration | December 28, 1987 – December 18, 1988 |
Edition | 19th |
Tournaments | 77 |
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Player of the year | ![]() |
Doubles team of the year | |
Most improved player of the year | ![]() |
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The 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix was the only men's tennis circuit held that year. It incorporated the four Grand Slam tournaments, three World Championship Tennis tournaments and the Grand Prix tournaments.
Schedule
[edit]The table below shows the 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix schedule (a precursor to the ATP Tour).
- Key
Grand Slam events |
Team events |
World Championship Tennis Event |
Year-end championships |
January
[edit]February
[edit]March
[edit]Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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7 Mar | DuPont Classic Orlando, Florida, US Hard – $297,500 – 32S/16D |
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14 Mar 21 Mar |
Lipton International Players Championships Key Biscayne, Florida, US Hard – $734,000 – 128S/64D Singles – Doubles |
![]() 6–4, 4–6, 6–4, 6–4 |
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28 Mar | Buick WCT Finals Dallas, Texas, US Carpet (i) – $500,000 – 8S Singles |
![]() 6–4, 1–6, 7–5, 6–2 |
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April
[edit]May
[edit]June
[edit]July
[edit]August
[edit]September
[edit]October
[edit]November
[edit]December
[edit]Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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5 Dec | Nabisco Masters Doubles London, Great Britain $200,000 – Carpet (i) – 8D Doubles |
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12 Dec | Davis Cup: Final Gothenburg, Sweden – clay (i) |
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Grand Prix rankings
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List of tournament winners
[edit]The list of winners and number of Grand Prix titles won, alphabetically by last name:
Andre Agassi – Memphis, Charleston, Forest Hills, Stuttgart, Stratton Mountain, Livingston (6)
Boris Becker – Indian Wells, Dallas, London, Indianapolis, Tokyo Indoors, Stockholm, Season-Ending Championships (7)
Jay Berger – São Paulo (1)
Darren Cahill – Gstaad (1)
Kent Carlsson – Madrid, Hamburg, Kitzbühel, St. Vincent, Barcelona (5)
Michael Chang – San Francisco (1)
Andrei Chesnokov – Orlando (1)
Jimmy Connors – Washington, D.C., Toulouse (2)
Yahiya Doumbia – Lyon (1)
Stefan Edberg – Rotterdam, Wimbledon, Basel (3)
Marcelo Filippini – Båstad (1)
John Fitzgerald – Sydney (1)
Brad Gilbert – Tel Aviv (1)
Dan Goldie – Seoul (1)
Jakob Hlasek – Wembley, Johannesburg (2)
Ramesh Krishnan – Wellington (1)
Henri Leconte – Nice, Brussels (2)
Ivan Lendl – Monte Carlo, Rome, Canada (3)
Alberto Mancini – Bologna (1)
Amos Mansdorf – Auckland, Paris (2)
Wally Masur – Newport (1)
Luiz Mattar – Guarujá (1)
Tim Mayotte – Philadelphia, Schenectady, Brisbane, Frankfurt (4)
John McEnroe – Tokyo, Detroit (2)
Miloslav Mečíř – Seoul Olympics (1)
Thomas Muster – Boston, Bordeaux, Prague, Bari (4)
Massimiliano Narducci – Florence (1)
Yannick Noah – Milan (1)
Guillermo Pérez Roldán – Munich (1)
Mikael Pernfors – Los Angeles, Scottsdale (2)
Christian Saceanu – Bristol (1)
Emilio Sánchez – Hilversum (1)
Javier Sánchez – Buenos Aires (1)
Horst Skoff – Athens, Vienna (2)
Milan Šrejber – Rye Brook (1)
Jonas Svensson – Metz (1)
Marián Vajda – Geneva (1)
Mats Wilander – Australian Open, Miami, Roland Garros, Cincinnati, US Open, Palermo (6)
Mark Woodforde – Adelaide (1)
Jaime Yzaga – Itaparica (1)
Slobodan Živojinović – Sydney Indoors (1)
The following players won their first title in 1988:
Darren Cahill
Michael Chang
Yahiya Doumbia
Marcelo Filippini
Jakob Hlasek
Alberto Mancini
Massimiliano Narducci
Mikael Pernfors
Christian Saceanu
Javier Sánchez
Horst Skoff
Milan Šrejber
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "ATP Year-end top 20". ATP. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
External links
[edit]- ATP 1988 results archive
- History Mens Professional Tours:Accessed 22/10/2010.
Further reading
[edit]- Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book (2nd ed.). New York: New Chapter Press. ISBN 9780942257700.