1992 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The 1992 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament 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 indoor carpet courts. It was the 20th edition of the event known that year as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the 500 series of the ATP Tour...

, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1992 ATP Tour

1992 ATP Tour

The IBM Association of Tennis Professionals Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the ATP tour. The IBM ATP Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments , the ATP Super 9, the ATP Championship Series, the ATP World Series, the ATP World Team Cup, the Davis Cup , the ATP Tour...

. It took place at the Ahoy Rotterdam indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

, Netherlands, from February 24 through March 1, 1992.

The singles line up featured ATP

Association of Tennis Professionals

The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

No. 2, Australian Open

1992 Australian Open

The 1992 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Flinders Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 80th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 13 through 26 January 1992.-Men's Singles:...

and Stuttgart indoor runner-up, US Open, Sydney indoor and Tokyo indoor

1991 Tokyo Indoor

The 1991 Tokyo Indoor also known as "Seiko Super Tennis" was a tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet Courts in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the IBM 1991 ATP Tour and was an ATP Championship Series event, today known as the ATP World Tour 500 series. The tournament was held from October 8...

champion 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...

, Wimbledon

1991 Wimbledon Championships

The 1991 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...

finalist, Stockholm

1991 Stockholm Open

The 1991 Stockholm Open was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 23rd edition of the Stockholm Open and was part of the ATP Super 9 of the 1992 ATP Tour. It took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden, from October 21 through October 28, 1991.The singles...

and Brussels

1991 Donnay Indoor Championships

The 1991 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. The tournament was held from February 11 to 17, 1991.-Singles:...

winner 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 Long Island

1991 Norstar Bank Hamlet Challenge Cup

The 1991 Norstar Bank Hamlet Challenge Cup was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 11th edition of the event known that year as the Norstar Bank Hamlet Challenge Cup, and was part of the World Series of the 1991 ATP Tour...

titlist 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...

. Also competing were Milan winner, Rotterdam defending champion

1991 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The 1991 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 19th edition of the event known that year as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1991 ATP Tour...

Omar Camporese

Omar Camporese is a former professional tennis player from Italy.Born in Bologna, Camporese turned professional in 1987. He reached his first top-level singles final in 1990 at San Marino, where he lost to Guillermo Pérez Roldán 6–3, 6–3....

, Milan quarterfinalist Goran Prpić

Goran Prpic

Goran Prpić is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. He played also for, then, Yugoslavia, prior to 1991....

, John McEnroe

John McEnroe

John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

, Alexander Volkov

Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov

Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov is a former professional tennis player from Russia.Volkov turned professional in 1988.Volkov finished runner-up in three tournaments over 1989 and 1990; in the latter year he defeated World No. 1 Stefan Edberg in straight sets in the first round of the US Open....

and Jonas Svensson

Jonas Svensson

Jonas Svensson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.During his career, Svensson was a French Open semi-finalist twice both times as unseeded player....

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...

def.

Alexander Volkov

Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov

, 7–6(9), 4–6, 6–2

It was Boris Becker's 2nd title of the year, and his 33rd overall.

Doubles

Marc-Kevin Goellner
Marc-Kevin Goellner
Marc-Kevin Peter Goellner is a former professional tennis player from Germany.The son of a German diplomat, Goellner lived in Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv, Sydney as a youngster before moving to Germany in 1986. In 1990, he suffered two torn ligaments in his left foot, which almost ended his tennis...

/

David Prinosil
David Prinosil
David Prinosil is a former tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 1991. He represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Daniel Vacek of the Czech Republic...

def.

Paul Haarhuis

Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former World No. 1 doubles player. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.-Personal life:...

Mark Koevermans

Mark Koevermans is a former tennis player from the Netherlands, who turned professional in 1987. He represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the third round by Brazil's Jaime Oncins. The right-hander, nicknamed Koef, won one...

, 6–2, 6–7, 7–6

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