The 1979 Player's International Canadian Open was a
tennis
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tournament played on
outdoor hard courts at the
National Tennis Centre in
Toronto
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in
Canada
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that was part of the
1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix
The 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix was a professional tennis circuit held that year. It consisted of four Grand Slam tournaments, the Grand Prix tournaments and the Nations Cup, a team event.
Schedule
The table below shows the 1979 Colgate ...
and of the
1979 WTA Tour
The 1979 WTA Tour consisted of a number of tennis tournaments for female tennis players. It was composed of the newly streamlined version of the Avon Championships (which was now an 11-week tour of the US) and the Colgate Series. The year 1979 als ...
. The tournament was held from August 13 through August 19, 1979.
Finals
Men's singles
Björn Borg
Björn Rune Borg (; born 6 June 1956) is a Swedish former world No. 1 tennis player. Between 1974 and 1981, he became the first man in the Open Era to win 11 Grand Slam singles titles with six at the French Open and five consecutively at W ...
defeated
John McEnroe
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6–3, 6–3
* It was Borg's 9th singles title of the year and the 48th of his
career
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Definitions
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defi ...
.
Women's singles
Laura DuPont
Laura duPont (May 4, 1949 – February 20, 2002) was a female American tennis player. She was the first woman to win a national title in any sport for the University of North Carolina, defeated
Brigitte Cuypers
Brigitte Cuypers (born 3 December 1955) is a retired tennis player from South Africa.
Cuypers reached the final of the South African Championships singles event on five consecutive occasions from 1975 to 1979 and won the title in 1976, 1978 a ...
6–4, 6–7, 6–1
* It was DuPont's 1st title of the year and the 1st of her career.
Men's doubles
Peter Fleming /
John McEnroe
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defeated
Heinz Günthardt
Heinz Peter Günthardt (born 8 February 1959) is a retired tennis player from Switzerland.
Tennis player career
Günthardt won five singles titles during his professional career, including the Rotterdam WCT in 1980. The right-hander reached hi ...
/
Bob Hewitt
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6–7, 7–6, 6–1
* It was Fleming's 10th title of the year and the 17th of his career. It was McEnroe's 17th title of the year and the 28th of his career.
Women's doubles
Lea Antonoplis /
Diane Evers
Dianne Evers (born 9 November 1956) is a retired female tennis player from Australia. With her partner Judy Chaloner, she won the 1979 Australian Open Doubles title and had a career high singles ranking of No. 42.
Tennis career
Evers began ...
defeated
Chris O'Neil /
Mimmi Wikstedt
Marie "Mimmi" Wikstedt (born 30 April 1954) is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.
Biography
Wikstedt, who is known by her nickname "Mimmi", was born in Stockholm. She began competing in the early 1970s and made her debut for the Swe ...
2–6, 6–1, 6–3
* It was Antonoplis' 1st title of the year and the 1st of her career. It was Evers' 1st title of the year and the 1st of her career.
See also
*
Borg–McEnroe rivalry
The Borg–McEnroe rivalry was a tennis rivalry between Björn Borg and John McEnroe, who met 14 times on the regular tour and 22 times in total between November 1978 and April 1981. Their head-to-head was even at 7-7. Their on-court rivalry wa ...
References
External links
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ATP tournament profileWTA tournament profile
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