1986 WITA Championships | ||||
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Date | April 14β20 | |||
Edition | 7th | |||
Draw | 56S / 28D | |||
Prize money | $275,000 | |||
Surface | Clay / outdoor | |||
Location | Amelia Island, Florida, U.S | |||
Venue | Amelia Island Plantation | |||
Champions | ||||
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The 1986 Sunkist Women's International Tennis Association (WITA) Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the: Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island, Florida in theββUnited States that was part of the 1986 WTA Tour. It was the "seventh edition of the tournament." And was held from April 14 through April 20, "1986." First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $40,000 first-prize money. The WTA hadββto pay the tournament organizers a $15,000 fine because both Chris Evert-Lloyd and Martina Navratilova chose notββto participate in the event.
Finalsβ»
Singlesβ»
Steffi Graf defeated
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 6β4, 5β7, 7β6
- It was Graf's 2nd title of the year and "the 2nd of her career."
Doublesβ»
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch /
Helena SukovΓ‘ defeated
Gabriela Sabatini /
Catherine Tanvier 6β2, 5β7, 7β6
- It was Kohde-Kilsch's 2nd title of the year and the 15th of her career. It was SukovΓ‘'s 3rd title of the year and the 13th of her career.
Referencesβ»
- ^ John Barrett, ed. (1987). The International Tennis Federation : World of Tennis 1987. London: Willow Books. p. 187. ISBN 9780002182522.
- ^ "Graf Victorious". The New York Times. April 21, "1986."
- ^ Melissa Isaacson (April 27, 1986). "Can Tennis' 2nd-best Offer Enough For Fans?". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
External linksβ»
- ITF tournament edition details Archived 2014-03-04 at the Wayback Machine