Cairo Open

Cairo Open
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name Cairo Open (1975–82)
Cairo Challenger (1983–91)
Tour Grand Prix circuit (1975–82)
Challenger circuit (1983–91)
Founded 1975
Abolished 1991
Surface Clay (1975–91)

The Cairo Open is a defunct Grand Prix and Challenger affiliated tennis tournament played from 1975 to 1991. It was held in Cairo in Egypt and played on outdoor clay courts.

Ismail El Shafei was the most successful player at the tournament, winning the doubles competition three times with three different partners; once with New Zealander Brian Fairlie, once with Dutchman Tom Okker and once with Hungarian Balázs Taróczy.

Results

Singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1975 Spain Manuel Orantes France François Jauffret 6–0, 4–6, 6–1, 6–3
1976 Not held
1977 France François Jauffret West Germany Frank Gebert 6–3, 7–5, 6–4
1978 Spain José Higueras Sweden Kjell Johansson 4–6, 6–4, 6–4
1979 Austria Peter Feigl Brazil Carlos Kirmayr 7–5, 3–6, 6–1
1980 Italy Corrado Barazzutti Italy Paolo Bertolucci 6–4, 6–0
1981 Argentina Guillermo Vilas West Germany Peter Elter 6–2, 6–3
1982 Australia Brad Drewett Italy Claudio Panatta 6–3, 6–3
1983 Sweden Henrik Sundström Spain Juan Avendaño 6–7, 6–2, 6–0
1984 Spain Fernando Luna United States Mark Dickson 6–4, 6–2
1985 Spain Fernando Luna Australia Trevor Allan 6–3, 6–4
1986 Not completed
1987 Spain Alberto Tous Spain David de Miguel 6–2, 6–3
1988 Spain Jordi Arrese Peru Carlos di Laura 7–6, 6–2
1989 Spain Sergi Bruguera Spain Jordi Arrese 6–7, 6–4, 6–4
1990 Austria Thomas Muster Spain José Francisco Altur 6–4, 6–3
1991 United States Bryan Shelton Netherlands Jacco Eltingh 7–6, 7–6

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1975 Spain Antonio Muñoz
Spain Manuel Orantes
Chile Jaime Pinto-Bravo
Chile Belus Prajoux
3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5
1976 Not held
1977 United States Bill Bartlett
Australia John Marks
United States Pat Du Pré
United Kingdom Chris Lewis
7–5, 6–1, 6–3
1978 Egypt Ismail El Shafei
New Zealand Brian Fairlie
Argentina Lito Álvarez
United States George Hardie
6–3, 7–5, 6–2
1979 Australia Peter McNamara
Australia Paul McNamee
India Anand Amritraj
India Vijay Amritraj
7–5, 6–4
1980 Egypt Ismail El Shafei
Netherlands Tom Okker
France Christophe Freyss
France Bernard Fritz
6–3, 3–6, 6–3
1981 Egypt Ismail El Shafei
Hungary Balázs Taróczy
Italy Paolo Bertolucci
Italy Gianni Ocleppo
6–7, 6–3, 6–1
1982 United States Drew Gitlin
United States Jim Gurfein
Switzerland Heinz Günthardt
Switzerland Markus Günthardt
6–4, 7–5
1983 Australia Broderick Dyke
Australia Rod Frawley
Australia Brad Drewett
United Kingdom John Feaver
6–3, 6–2
1984 United States Brett Dickinson
United States Drew Gitlin
United States Marcel Freeman
United States Tim Wilkison
7–6, 6–3
1985 India Anand Amritraj
United States Lloyd Bourne
Australia Trevor Allan
Spain Alberto Tous
6–4, 2–6, 7–5
1986 Not held
1987 France Loïc Courteau
West Germany Tore Meinecke
Spain Jordi Arrese
Spain David de Miguel
2–6, 7–6, 6–4
1988 Czechoslovakia Josef Čihák
Czechoslovakia Cyril Suk
Argentina Roberto Argüello
Argentina Marcelo Ingaramo
6–3, 6–2
1989 Spain Jordi Arrese
Spain Tomás Carbonell
Spain Carlos Costa
Spain Francisco Roig
7–6, 6–3
1990 Czechoslovakia Tomáš Anzari
Czechoslovakia David Rikl
Belgium Eduardo Masso
Argentina Christian Miniussi
6–3, 6–7, 7–5
1991 Czechoslovakia Martin Damm
Czechoslovakia David Rikl
Zimbabwe Byron Black
South Africa Marcos Ondruska
6–2, 6–3

References


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