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1984 United Airlines Tournament of Champions

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1984 United Airlines Tournament of Champions
DateApril 23 – 29
Edition5th
Draw28S / 7D
Prize money$200,000
SurfaceClay / outdoors
VenueHyatt Regency Grand Cypress
Champions
Singles
United States Martina Navratilova
Doubles
West Germany Claudia Kohde-Kilsch
Czechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková
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The 1984 United Airlines Tournament of Champions was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1984 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from April 23 through April 29, 1984. First-seeded Martina Navratilova won her fifth consecutive singles title at the event.[1]

Finals

Singles

United States Martina Navratilova defeated Peru Laura Gildemeister 6–2, 7–5

  • It was Navratilova's 4th singles title of the year and the 90th of her career.

Doubles

West Germany Claudia Kohde-Kilsch / Czechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková defeated United Kingdom Anne Hobbs / Australia Wendy Turnbull 6–0, 1–6, 6–3

  • It was Kohde-Kilsch's 2nd title of the year and the 8th of her career. It was Mandlíková's 8th title of the year and the 26th of her career.

References

  1. ^ John Barrett, ed. (1985). The International Tennis Federation : World of Tennis 1985. London: Willow Books. pp. 201–202, 228, 230. ISBN 0002181703.