Tennis tournament
The
Milan Indoor
, also known under various sponsored names, was a men's professional
tennis
tournament held from 1978 until 2005. It took placed in Milan, Italy with the exception of three years (1998?2000) when it was held in London, United Kingdom. The event was part of the
Grand Prix circuit
(1981?89) and
ATP Tour
(1990?2005) and was played on indoor
carpet courts
, except for the 2000 edition which was played on an indoor hard court. The most successful singles players were
John McEnroe
and
Boris Becker
who both won four titles.
Stefan Edberg
and
Roger Federer
won the first singles title of their career at the event.
[1]
A single female edition of the event was held in 1991, won by
Monica Seles
. Due to a lack of sponsorship the tournament was replaced on the
2006 ATP Tour
by the
Zagreb Indoors
.
[2]
History
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The first four editions of the tournament, from 1978 until 1982, were part of the
World Championship Tennis
circuit, which during that time was incorporated into the Grand Prix calendar. From 1982 through 1989 the event was part of the
Super Series
tier of the Grand Prix circuit. Initially the tournament was played at the
Palazzo dello Sport
, near the San Siro stadium, but in 1985 the
PalaLido
became the event venue after heavy snowfall in January that year had caused the roof of the Palazzo dello Sport to collapse, forcing it to close. In 1987 the tournament moved again, this time to the newly-build
Palazzo Trussardi
. From 1990 to 1992, during the first years of the
ATP Tour
, the tournament was part of the
World Series
, its lowest tier, but in 1993 it was upgraded to the
Championship Series
tier. In 1991, the
Assago Forum
became the host of the event, before it moved back again to the Palatrussardi for the 1996 and 1997 editions.
In 1998 the tournament moved to London, England and was played at
Battersea Park
before moving to the
London Arena
in 2000 when it became part of the
International Series Gold
category. Due to the loss of its main sponsor the tournament moved back to its original host city Milan in 2001 where it was held at the PalaLido until its last edition in 2005.
[3]
John McEnroe
and
Boris Becker
won the singles title four times and the roll of honor contains 10 Grand Slam tournament winners, including
Stefan Edberg
and
Roger Federer
, who both won their first career singles title in Milan.
During its history the tournament was known under various, mostly sponsored, names;
WCT Milan
, the
Cuore Tennis Cup
, the
Fila Trophy
, the
Stella Artois Indoor
, the
Muratti Time Indoors
, the
Italian Indoors
, the
Guardian Direct Cup
, the
AXA Cup
, the
Breil Milano Indoors
, the
ATP Indesit Milano Indoors
, and the
Internazionali di Lombardia
.
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Past finals
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Singles
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Location
|
Year
|
Champion
|
Runner-up
|
Score
|
Milan
|
1978
|
Bjorn Borg
|
Vitas Gerulaitis
|
6?3, 6?3
|
1979
|
John McEnroe
|
John Alexander
|
6?4, 6?3
|
1980
|
John McEnroe
|
Vijay Amitraj
|
6?1, 6?4
|
1981
|
John McEnroe
|
Bjorn Borg
|
7?6
(7?2)
, 6?4
|
1982
|
Guillermo Vilas
|
Jimmy Connors
|
6?3, 6?3
|
1983
|
Ivan Lendl
|
Kevin Curren
|
5?7, 6?3, 7?6
|
1984
|
Stefan Edberg
|
Mats Wilander
|
6?4, 6?2
|
1985
|
John McEnroe
|
Anders Jarryd
|
6?4, 6?1
|
1986
|
Ivan Lendl
|
Joakim Nystrom
|
6?2, 6?2, 6?4
|
1987
|
Boris Becker
|
Miloslav Me?i?
|
6?4, 6?3
|
1988
|
Yannick Noah
|
Jimmy Connors
|
4?4 retired
|
1989
|
Boris Becker
|
Alexander Volkov
|
6?1, 6?2
|
1990
|
Ivan Lendl
|
Tim Mayotte
|
6?3, 6?2
|
1991
|
Alexander Volkov
|
Cristiano Caratti
|
6?1, 7?5
|
1992
|
Omar Camporese
|
Goran Ivani?evi?
|
3?6, 6?3, 6?4
|
1993
|
Boris Becker
|
Sergi Bruguera
|
6?3, 6?3
|
1994
|
Boris Becker
|
Petr Korda
|
6?2, 3?6, 6?3
|
1995
|
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
|
Boris Becker
|
7?5, 5?7, 7?6
(8?6)
|
1996
|
Goran Ivani?evi?
|
Marc Rosset
|
6?3, 7?6
(7?3)
|
1997
|
Goran Ivani?evi?
|
Sergi Bruguera
|
6?2, 6?2
|
London
|
1998
|
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
|
Cedric Pioline
|
7?5, 6?4
|
1999
|
Richard Krajicek
|
Greg Rusedski
|
7?6
(8?6)
, 6?7
(5?7)
, 7?5
|
2000
|
Marc Rosset
|
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
|
6?4, 6?4
|
Milan
|
2001
|
Roger Federer
|
Julien Boutter
|
6?4, 6?7
(7?9)
, 6?4
|
2002
|
Davide Sanguinetti
|
Roger Federer
|
7?6
(7?2)
, 4?6, 6?1
|
2003
|
Martin Verkerk
|
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
|
6?4, 5?7, 7?5
|
2004
|
Antony Dupuis
|
Mario An?i?
|
6?4, 6?7
(12?14)
, 7?6
(7?5)
|
2005
|
Robin Soderling
|
Radek ?t?panek
|
6?3, 6?7
(2?7)
, 7?6
(7?5)
|
replaced by
Zagreb Indoors
|
Doubles
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Location
|
Year
|
Champion
|
Runners-up
|
Score
|
Milan
|
1978
|
Jose Higueras
Victor Pecci
|
Wojtek Fibak
Raul Ramirez
|
5?7, 7?6, 7?6
|
1979
|
Peter Fleming
John McEnroe
|
Jose Luis Clerc
Toma? ?mid
|
6?1, 6?3
|
1980
|
Peter Fleming
John McEnroe
|
Andrew Pattison
Butch Walts
|
6?4, 6?3
|
1981
|
Brian Gottfried
Raul Ramirez
|
John McEnroe
Peter Rennert
|
7?6, 6?3
|
1982
|
Heinz Gunthardt
Peter McNamara
|
Mark Edmondson
Sherwood Stewart
|
7?6, 7?6
|
1983
|
Toma? ?mid
Pavel Slo?il
|
Fritz Buehning
Peter Fleming
|
6?2, 5?7, 6?4
|
1984
|
Toma? ?mid
Pavel Slo?il
|
Kevin Curren
Steve Denton
|
6?4, 6?3
|
1985
|
Heinz Gunthardt
Anders Jarryd
|
Broderick Dyke
Wally Masur
|
6?2, 6?1
|
1986
|
Colin Dowdeswell
Christo Steyn
|
Brian Levine
Laurie Warder
|
6?3, 4?6, 6?1
|
1987
|
Boris Becker
Slobodan ?ivojinovi?
|
Sergio Casal
Emilio Sanchez
|
3?6, 6?3, 6?4
|
1988
|
Boris Becker
Eric Jelen
|
Miloslav Me?i?
Toma? ?mid
|
6?3, 6?3
|
1989
|
Jakob Hlasek
John McEnroe
|
Balazs Taroczy
Heinz Gunthardt
|
6?3, 6?4
|
1990
|
Omar Camporese
Diego Nargiso
|
Tom Nijssen
Udo Riglewski
|
6?4, 6?4
|
1991
|
Omar Camporese
Goran Ivani?evi?
|
Tom Nijssen
Cyril Suk
|
6?4, 7?6
|
1992
|
Neil Broad
David Macpherson
|
Sergio Casal
Emilio Sanchez
|
5?7, 7?5, 6?4
|
1993
|
Mark Kratzmann
Wally Masur
|
Tom Nijssen
Cyril Suk
|
4?6, 6?3, 6?4
|
1994
|
Tom Nijssen
Cyril Suk
|
Hendrik Jan Davids
Piet Norval
|
4?6, 7?6, 7?6
|
1995
|
Boris Becker
Guy Forget
|
Petr Korda
Karel Nova?ek
|
6?2, 6?4
|
1996
|
Andrea Gaudenzi
Goran Ivani?evi?
|
Guy Forget
Jakob Hlasek
|
6?4, 7?5
|
1997
|
Pablo Albano
Peter Nyborg
|
David Adams
Andrei Olhovskiy
|
6?4, 7?6
|
London
|
1998
|
Martin Damm
Jim Grabb
|
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Daniel Vacek
|
6?4, 7?5
|
1999
|
Tim Henman
Greg Rusedski
|
Byron Black
Wayne Ferreira
|
6?3, 7?6
(8?6)
|
2000
|
David Adams
John-Laffnie de Jager
|
Jan-Michael Gambill
Scott Humphries
|
6?3, 6?7
(7?9)
, 7?6
(13?11)
|
Milan
|
2001
|
Paul Haarhuis
Sjeng Schalken
|
Johan Landsberg
Tom Vanhoudt
|
7?6
(7?5)
, 7?6
(7?4)
|
2002
|
Karsten Braasch
Andrei Olhovskiy
|
Julien Boutter
Max Mirnyi
|
3?6, 7?6
(7?5)
, [12?10]
|
2003
|
Petr Luxa
Radek ?t?panek
|
Toma? Cibulec
Pavel Vizner
|
6?4, 7?6
(7?4)
|
2004
|
Jared Palmer
Pavel Vizner
|
Daniele Bracciali
Giorgio Galimberti
|
6?4, 6?4
|
2005
|
Daniele Bracciali
Giorgio Galimberti
|
Arnaud Clement
Jean-Francois Bachelot
|
6?7
(8?10)
, 7?6
(8?6)
, 6?4
|
Women
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Singles
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Doubles
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See also
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References
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