1988 Italian Open (tennis) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1988 Italian Open was a tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

tournament played on outdoor clay courts

Clay court

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at the Foro Italico

Foro Italico

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in Rome

Rome

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in Italy

Italy

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that was part of the 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix

1988 Nabisco Grand Prix

The 1988 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:...

and of Tier IV of the 1988 WTA Tour

1988 WTA Tour

The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events...

. The men's tournament was held from May 9 through May 15, 1988 while the women's tournament was held from May 2 through May 8, 1988.

Men's Singles

Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...

defeated

Guillermo Pérez-Roldán

Guillermo Pérez-Roldán is a former professional tennis player from Argentina.Pérez-Roldán was known particularly as a strong clay court player. He turned professional in 1986. Between 1987 and 1993, he won nine top-level singles titles...

2–6, 6–4, 6–2, 4–6, 6–4

It was Lendl's 2nd title of the year and the 78th of his career.

Women's Singles

Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...

defeated

Helen Kelesi

Helen Kelesi is a former tour professional tennis player. She has been coached by her father, Milan Kelesi, throughout her tennis career....

6–1, 6–7, 6–1

It was Sabatini's 3rd title of the year and the 15th of her career.

Men's Doubles

Jorge Lozano
Jorge Lozano
Jorge Lozano is a retired professional tennis player from Mexico. On August 22, 1988, he reached his highest doubles ranking of World Number 4. His highest singles ranking was World Number 51. During his career, he won two mixed doubles titles at the French Open: in 1990 with Arantxa Sánchez, and...

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Todd Witsken
Todd Witsken
Todd Witsken was an American tennis player. He specialized in playing doubles and began his professional career in 1985. He was a three-time all-American at the University of Southern California. His career high was #4 in doubles and #43 in singles...

defeated

Anders Järryd

Anders Per Järryd is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. During his career he won eight Grand Slam doubles titles , reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 5.Järryd was born in Lidköping, Västra Götaland...

Tomáš Šmíd

Tomáš Šmíd is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who won nine singles titles during his career. In doubles, he won fifty-four titles and was the world's highest-ranking doubles player from December 17, 1984, to August 11, 1985. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on...

6–3, 6–3

It was Lozano's 2nd title of the year and the 2nd of his career. It was Witsken's 2nd title of the year and the 2nd of his career.

Women's Doubles

Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

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Catherine Suire
Catherine Suire
Catherine Suire is a former tennis player from France, who competed as a lucky loser for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. She won eight doubles titles in her professional career, and reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on May 14, 1984, when she became the...

defeated

Jenny Byrne

Jenny Byrne is a former professional tennis player from Australia who turned professional in 1987 and retired from the tour in 1997. Her career-high world rankings were World No. 45 in singles and World No. 27 in doubles...

Janine Tremelling 6–3, 4–6, 7–5

It was Novotná's 2nd title of the year and the 5th of her career. It was Suire's 2nd title of the year and the 5th of her career.

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