1987 Grand Prix (tennis)
Appearance
(Redirected from 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix)
Details | |
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Duration | 29 December 1986 – 14 December 1987 |
Edition | 18th |
Tournaments | 77 |
Achievements (singles) | |
Most tournament titles | Ivan Lendl (8) |
Most tournament finals | Ivan Lendl (12) |
Prize money leader | Ivan Lendl ($2,003,656) |
Points leader | Ivan Lendl |
Awards | |
Player of the year | Ivan Lendl |
Doubles team of the year | |
Most improved player of the year | Peter Lundgren |
← 1986 1988 → |
The 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix was the only 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 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix schedule (a forerunner to the ATP Tour).
- Key
Grand Slam events |
Team events |
World Championship Tennis Event |
Year-end championships |
January
[edit]February
[edit]March
[edit]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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7 Dec | Nabisco Masters Doubles London, United Kingdom Carpet – $200,000 – 8D |
Miloslav Mečíř Tomáš Šmíd 6–4, 7–5, 6–7(5–7), 6–3 |
Ken Flach Robert Seguso |
Casal / Sánchez Edberg / Järryd |
Round robin Doohan / WarderAnnacone / Rensburg Donnelly / Fleming Davis / Pate |
14 Dec | Davis Cup: Final Gothenburg, Sweden – clay (i) |
Sweden 5–0 |
India |
Grand Prix rankings
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List of tournament winners
[edit]The list of winners and number of Grand Prix singles titles won, alphabetically by last name:
- Andre Agassi (1) Itaparica
- Boris Becker (3) Indian Wells, Milan, Queen's Club
- Kent Carlsson (2) Nice, Bologna
- Pat Cash (3) Nancy, Wimbledon, Johannesburg
- Andrei Chesnokov (1) Florence
- Stefan Edberg (7) Australian Open, Memphis, Rotterdam, Tokyo Outdoor, Cincinnati, Tokyo Indoor, Stockholm
- Kelly Evernden (2) Bristol, Brisbane
- Brad Gilbert (1) Scottsdale
- Dan Goldie (1) Newport
- Andrés Gómez (1) Forest Hills
- Jim Grabb (1) Seoul
- Martín Jaite (1) Palermo
- Johan Kriek (1) Livingston
- Ivan Lendl (8) Hamburg, French Open, Washington, D.C., Montreal, US Open, Sydney Indoor, Wembley, Masters
- Peter Lundgren (2) Rye Brook, San Francisco
- Amos Mansdorf (1) Tel Aviv
- Wally Masur (1) Adelaide
- Luiz Mattar (1) Guarujá
- Tim Mayotte (5) Philadelphia, Chicago, Toulouse, Bercy, Frankfurt
- Miloslav Mečíř (6) Auckland, Sydney Outdoor, Key Biscayne, Dallas WCT, Stuttgart Outdoor, Hilversum
- Claudio Mezzadri (1) Geneva
- Yannick Noah (2) Lyon, Basel
- Joakim Nyström (1) Båstad
- Guillermo Pérez Roldán (3) Munich, Athens, Buenos Aires
- Claudio Pistolesi (1) Bari
- Pedro Rebolledo (1) St. Vincent
- Emilio Sánchez (4) Gstaad, Bordeaux, Kitzbühel, Madrid
- Jonas Svensson (1) Vienna
- Eliot Teltscher (1) Hong Kong
- Marián Vajda (1) Prague
- Christo van Rensburg (1) Orlando
- Mats Wilander (5) Brussels, Monte Carlo, Rome, Boston, Indianapolis
- Jaime Yzaga (2) Schenectady, São Paulo
The following players won their first title in 1987:
- Andre Agassi Itaparica
- Andrei Chesnokov Florence
- Kelly Evernden Bristol
- Dan Goldie Newport
- Jim Grabb Seoul
- Luiz Mattar Guarujá
- Claudio Mezzadri Geneva
- Claudio Pistolesi Bari
- Marián Vajda Prague
- Christo van Rensburg Orlando
- Jaime Yzaga Schenectady
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "ATP Year-end top 20". ATP. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
External links
[edit]- ATP 1987 results archive
- History Mens Professional Tours:Accessed 22 October 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 978-0-942257-70-0.