ATP world championship
The ATP World Championship from 1990 to 1999, the most important men's tennis tournament in addition to the Grand Slam tournaments and the last major ATP tournament of the year. The predecessor was the New York Masters , which had been held since 1970. In 2000, the ATP World Cup and the competing Munich Grand Slam Cup were then replaced by the Tennis Masters Cup .
The indoor tournament was held in Germany , where the popularity of tennis was at its peak in the early 1990s thanks to the successes of Boris Becker , Michael Stich and Steffi Graf . From 1990 to 1995 the tournament was held in the Frankfurt Festhalle before moving to Hanover .
The eight best players in the ATP world rankings were eligible to participate . After a round robin round (with two groups of four, each against each other), the knockout system applied from the semi-finals . The ATP World Championship was dominated by Pete Sampras , who triumphed five times in ten events. Boris Becker reached the final four times in his "home games" and won the title twice.
The winners of the ATP World Championship
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year | venue | winner | Final opponent | Result | |
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1999 | Hanover | Pete Sampras | Andre Agassi | 6: 1, 7: 5, 6: 4 | |
1998 | Alex Corretja | Carlos Moyá | 3: 6, 3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3, 7: 5 | ||
1997 | Pete Sampras | Yevgeny Kafelnikov | 6: 3, 6: 2, 6: 2 | ||
1996 | Pete Sampras | Boris Becker | 3: 6, 7: 6, 7: 6, 6: 7, 6: 4 | ||
1995 | Frankfurt am Main | Boris Becker | Michael Chang | 7: 6, 6: 0, 7: 6 | |
1994 | Pete Sampras | Boris Becker | 4: 6, 6: 3, 7: 5, 6: 4 | ||
1993 | Michael Stich | Pete Sampras | 7: 6, 2: 6, 7: 6, 6: 2 | ||
1992 | Boris Becker | Jim Courier | 6: 4, 6: 3, 7: 5 | ||
1991 | Pete Sampras | Jim Courier | 3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4 | ||
1990 | Andre Agassi | Stefan Edberg | 5: 7, 7: 6, 7: 5, 6: 2 |
See also
the corresponding tournament for women was the WTA Tour Championships