1989 Newsweek Champions Cup and the Virginia Slims of Indian Wells

The 1989 Newsweek Champions Cup and the 1989 Virginia Slims of Indian Wells were 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...

tournaments played on outdoor hard courts

Hardcourt

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. It was the 14th edition of the Indian Wells Masters

Indian Wells Masters

The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California....

and was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix

1989 Nabisco Grand Prix

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.-Schedule:...

and of Tier III of the 1989 WTA Tour

1989 WTA Tour

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. Both the men's and women's events took place at the Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California

Indian Wells, California

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in the United States

United States

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. The men's tournament was played from March 13 through March 20, 1989 while the women's tournament was played from March 6 through March 12, 1989.

Men's Singles

Miloslav Mečíř
Miloslav Mecír
Miloslav Mečíř is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games where he represented Czechoslovakia and played in two Grand Slam singles finals...

defeated

Yannick Noah

Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...

3–6, 2–6, 6–1, 6–2, 6–3

It was Mečíř's 2nd title of the year and the 20th of his career.

Women's Singles

Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Maleeva
Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

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...

6–4, 6–1

It was Maleeva's 1st title of the year and the 13th of her career.

Men's Doubles

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...

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Jakob Hlasek
Jakob Hlasek
Jakob Hlasek is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland.-Career:The major highlights of Hlasek's career came in 1992. He won the French Open men's doubles title that year...

defeated

Kevin Curren

----Kevin Melvyn Curren is a former professional tennis player. He played in two Grand Slam singles finals and won four Grand Slam doubles titles.-Career:...

David Pate

David Pate is a former professional tennis player from the United States who won two singles titles and eighteen doubles titles during his career. He reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 18 on June 8, 1987 and a career-high doubles ranking of No...

3–6, 6–3, 6–4

It was Becker's 3rd title of the year and the 30th of his career. It was Hlasek's 2nd title of the year and the 8th of his career.

Women's Doubles

Hana Mandlíková
Hana Mandlíková
Hana Mandlíková is a former Czech professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia and later Australia. During her career, she won four Grand Slam singles titles – two at the Australian Open, one at the French Open, and one at the US Open...

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Pam Shriver
Pam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...

defeated

Rosalyn Fairbank

Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance coming as late as 1997...

Gretchen Magers

Gretchen Anne Magers is a former professional tennis player from the United States....

6–3, 6–7 (4–7), 6–3

It was Mandlíková's 1st title of the year and the 29th of her career. It was Shriver's 5th title of the year and the 121st of her career.

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