Ivan Lendl finished the year ranked ATP world No. 1 for the fourth time in his career. Lendl won ten tournaments during the season, including a major at the Australian Open, and also finished runner-up at another major, the US Open.
Boris Becker was named the ATP Player of the Year. Becker won five tournaments during the season, including two majors at the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open.
The 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix was the only tennis circuit for male players held that year. It incorporated the four Grand Slam tournaments, one World Championship Tennis tournament and the Grand Prix tournaments.[1]
Schedule
The table below shows the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix (to become known in 1990 as the ATP Tour).
Grand Slam events |
Grand Prix Masters |
Grand Prix |
Team events |
January
February
March
Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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6 Mar | Eagle Classic (WCT) Scottsdale, Arizona, United States Super Series Hard – $297,500 – 32S/16D Singles – Doubles |
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13 Mar | Newsweek Champions Cup Indian Wells, California, United States Super Series Hard – $510,000 – 56S/28D Singles – Doubles |
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20 Mar | Lipton International Championships Key Biscayne, United States Super Series Hard – $745,000 – 128S/64D Singles – Doubles |
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April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Week | Tournament | Champions | Runners-up | Semifinalists | Quarterfinalists |
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4 Dec | 1989 Nabisco Masters (doubles) London, Great Britain Grand Prix Masters Carpet (i) – $200,000 – 8D Doubles |
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11 Dec | Davis Cup: Final Stuttgart, West Germany – carpet (i) |
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Rankings
Grand Prix
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List of tournament winners
List of players and Grand Prix singles titles won, alphabetically by last name:
Andre Agassi – Orlando (1)
Ronald Agénor – Athens (1)
Juan Aguilera – Bari (1)
José Francisco Altur – San Marino (1)
Paul Annacone – Vienna (1)
Boris Becker – Milan, Philadelphia, Wimbledon, US Open, Paris Bercy (5)
Jay Berger – Charleston (1)
Paolo Canè – Båstad (1)
Michael Chang – French Open, Wembley (2)
Andrei Chesnokov – Nice, Munich (2)
Jimmy Connors – Toulouse, Tel Aviv (2)
Jim Courier – Basel (1)
Kevin Curren – Frankfurt (1)
Franco Davín – St. Vincent (1)
Horacio de la Peña – Florence (1)
Stefan Edberg – Tokyo, Season-Ending Championships (2)
Kelly Evernden – Wellington (1)
Marcelo Filippini – Prague (1)
Guy Forget – Nancy (1)
Brad Gilbert – Memphis, Stratton Mountain, Livingston, Cincinnati, San Francisco (5)
Andrés Gómez – Boston, Barcelona (2)
Jakob Hlasek – Rotterdam (1)
Martín Jaite – Stuttgart, Madrid, São Paulo, Itaparica (4)
Eric Jelen – Bristol (1)
Kelly Jones – Singapore City (1)
Aaron Krickstein – Sydney, Los Angeles, Tokyo Indoors (3)
Ramesh Krishnan – Auckland (1)
Niclas Kroon – Brisbane (1)
Ivan Lendl – Australian Open, Scottsdale, Miami, Forest Hills, Hamburg, London, Canada, Bordeaux, Sydney Indoors, Stockholm (10)
Alberto Mancini – Monte Carlo, Rome (2)
Luiz Mattar – Guarujá, Rio de Janeiro (2)
Tim Mayotte – Washington, D.C. (1)
John McEnroe – Lyon, Dallas, Indianapolis (3)
Miloslav Mečíř – Indian Wells (1)
Karel Nováček – Hilversum (1)
Guillermo Pérez Roldán – Palermo (1)
Jim Pugh – Newport (1)
Marc Rosset – Geneva (1)
Emilio Sánchez – Kitzbühel (1)
Javier Sánchez – Bologna (1)
Carl-Uwe Steeb – Gstaad (1)
Robert Van't Hof – Seoul (1)
Christo van Rensburg – Johannesburg (1)
Mark Woodforde – Adelaide (1)
Simon Youl – Schenectady (1)
The following players won their first career title:
Ronald Agénor
José Francisco Altur
Jim Courier
Franco Davín
Eric Jelen
Kelly Jones
Niclas Kroon
Jim Pugh
Marc Rosset
Carl-Uwe Steeb
Simon Youl
See also
References
- ^ a b John Barrett, ed. (1990). The International Tennis Federation : World of Tennis 1990. London: Willow Books. pp. 101–107. ISBN 9780002183550.
- ^ "ATP Year-end top 20". ATP. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
External links
- ATP 1989 results archive
- History Mens Professional Tours: Accessed 22 October 2010.
Further reading
- Collins, Bud (2010). The Bud Collins History of Tennis: An Authoritative Encyclopedia and Record Book (2nd ed.). New York: New Chapter Press. ISBN 9780942257700.