1990 Lipton International Players Championships

The 1990 Lipton International Players 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 outdoor hard courts. It was the 6th edition of the Miami tournament

Miami Masters

The Miami Masters is an annual tennis tournament for men and women held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida. It is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the men's tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the women's tour and is played on hard courts at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park...

, and was part of the ATP Super 9

ATP Masters Series

The ATP Masters Series was a series of nine tennis tournaments that formed part of the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, held annually throughout the year in Europe, North America...

of the 1990 ATP Tour

1990 ATP Tour

The IBM ATP Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the Association of Tennis Professionals tour. In 1990 the IMB ATP Tour included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP Tour World Championships, the ATP Super 9, the ATP Championship Series and the ATP World Series...

, and of the Tier I Series of the 1990 WTA Tour

1990 WTA Tour

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. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park

Tennis Center at Crandon Park

The 13,300-seat Stadium Court is the centerpiece of the Tennis Center at Crandon Park facility, home of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida since 1987. The Sony Ericsson Open uses 12 courts in competition courts, plus six practice courts...

in Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne

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, Florida

Florida

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in the United States

United States

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, from March 12 through March 26, 1990.

The men's field was headlined by World No. 1, Australian Open

1990 Australian Open

The 1990 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 78th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 15 through 28 January 1990.-Men's Singles:...

champion, Milan, Toronto indoor, 1989 Key Biscayne

1989 Lipton International Players Championships

The 1989 Lipton International Players Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 5th edition of the Miami Masters and was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix and of Tier I of the 1989 WTA Tour...

winner 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...

, Brussels

1990 Donnay Indoor Championships

The 1990 Donnay Indoor Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Brussels in Belgium the event was part of the 1990 ATP Tour and was an Championship Series tournament. It was held from February 12 to 18, 1990.-Singles:...

titlist, US Open and Wimbledon

1990 Wimbledon Championships

The 1990 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on :grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon in London in England...

defending champion 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...

and Australian Open

1990 Australian Open

finalist, Indian Wells winner Stefan Edberg

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...

. Other top players in the field were Rotterdam titlist Brad Gilbert

Brad Gilbert

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, San Francisco winner Andre Agassi

Andre Agassi

Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...

, Aaron Krickstein

Aaron Krickstein

Aaron Krickstein , nicknamed "Marathon Man", is a former American professional tennis player, who competed on the ATP Tour from 1983 to 1996. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he currently competes on the Outback Champions Series Over-30 tour.Krickstein reached his career high ATP ranking of World No....

, Jay Berger

Jay Berger

Jay Berger is a former professional tennis player from the United States. He won three singles and one doubles title on the ATP Tour and reached his career-high singles ranking of world # 7 in April 1990....

and Tim Mayotte

Tim Mayotte

Timothy "Tim" Mayotte is a former professional tennis player from the United States.- Career :...

.

The women's field was led by. Among other players competing were.

Men's Singles

Andre Agassi
Andre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...

def.

Stefan Edberg

6–1, 6–4, 0–6, 6–2

It was Andre Agassi's 2nd title of the year and his 10th overall. It was his 1st career Masters title.

Women's Singles

Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...

def.

Judith Wiesner

Judith Wiesner is a former professional tennis player from Austria. During her career, she won six top-level singles titles and three tour doubles titles. Her career high rankings were World Number 12 in singles , and World Number 29 in doubles...

6–1, 6–2

It was Monica Seles' 1st title of the year and her 2nd overall. It was her 1st career Tier I title.

Men's Doubles

Rick Leach
Rick Leach
----Rick Leach is a former professional tennis player and a coach from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 5 Grand Slam men's doubles titles , and 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Leach reached the World No...

/

Jim Pugh
Jim Pugh
Jim Pugh is a former professional tennis player from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won three Grand Slam men's doubles titles and five Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Pugh reached the World No...

def.

Boris Becker

Cassio Motta

Cassio Motta is a former professional tennis player from Brazil.- Runner-ups :- Doubles :- Singles :- Doubles :- External links :*...

6–3, 6–4

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...

/

Helena Suková
Helena Suková
Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

def.

Betsy Nagelsen

Betsy Nagelsen McCormack is a retired professional tennis player from the United States. Nagelsen won the doubles championship at the 1978 and 1980 Australian Opens . She reached the singles final of the 1978 Australian Open, losing to Christine O'Neil...

Robin White

Robin White (tennis)

Robin White is a former professional tennis player from the United States.White played on the WTA tour from 1983 to 1995. She won two singles titles, in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1985 and in Auckland in 1992 but the highlight of her career was her victory with Gigi Fernández in the US Open doubles...

6–4, 6–3

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