Avon Cup

Avon Cup
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name Avon Cup (198384)
BMW Championships (1985)
Tournament of Champions (1986)
Tour WTA Tour (198386)
Founded 1983
Abolished 1986
Editions 4
Surface Clay (198384, 1986)
Hard (1985)

The Avon Cup is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament played from 1983 to 1986. It was held on Marco Island, Florida and played on outdoor clay courts from 1983 to 1984 and again in 1986 and on outdoor hard courts in 1985. The event was sponsored by Avon Products and BMW during its tenure and was known as the Tournament of Champions in its final year.

The only woman to win the singles event more than once was Bonnie Gadusek.

Winners

Singles

Year Tournament Champions Runners-up Score
1983 Avon Cup United States Andrea Jaeger Czechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková 6–1, 6–3
1984 Avon Cup United States Bonnie Gadusek United States Kathleen Horvath 3–6, 6–0, 6–4
1985 BMW Championships United States Bonnie Gadusek United States Pam Casale 6–3, 6–4
1986 Tournament of Champions United States Chris Evert-Lloyd West Germany Claudia Kohde-Kilsch 6–2, 6–4

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1983 United States Andrea Jaeger
United States Mary Lou Piatek
United States Rosemary Casals
Australia Wendy Turnbull
7–5, 6–4
1984 Czechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková
United States Andrea Jaeger
United Kingdom Anne Hobbs
3–6, 6–2, 6–2
1985 United States Kathy Jordan
Australia Elizabeth Sayers
United States Camille Benjamin
United States Bonnie Gadusek
6–3, 6–3
1986 United States Martina Navratilova
Hungary Andrea Temesvári
United States Kathy Jordan
United States Elise Burgin
7–5, 6–2

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