1988 Stella Artois Championships - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The 1988 Stella Artois Championships 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 grass court

Grass court

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s at the Queen's Club

Queen's Club

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in London

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in the United Kingdom

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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:...

. The tournament ran from June 6 through June 13, 1988.

Men's Singles

Boris Becker
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17...

defeated

Stefan Edberg

Stefan Bengt Edberg is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Sweden. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles. He also won one season ending championship title the Masters Grand Prix...

6–1, 3–6, 6–3

It was Becker's 5th title of the year and the 23rd of his career.

Men's Doubles

Ken Flach
Ken Flach
Kenneth Eliot "Ken" Flach is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 4 Grand Slam men's doubles titles , and 2 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles...

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Robert Seguso
Robert Seguso
Robert Arthur Seguso is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 4 Grand Slam men's doubles titles . He also won the men's doubles Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, partnering Ken Flach. Seguso reached the World No...

defeated

Pieter Aldrich

Pieter Aldrich is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won 2 Grand Slam men's doubles titles . Aldrich reached the World No...

Danie Visser

Danie Visser is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. A doubles specialist, he won 3 Grand Slam men's doubles titles . Visser reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1990.Visser won the first of 17 career doubles titles in 1985 at Bristol...

6–2, 7–6

It was Flach's 1st title of the year and the 20th of his career. It was Seguso's 1st title of the year and the 20th of his career.

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