Swedish Pro Tennis Championships

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Swedish Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis championship only played in 1972 and 1973.

History

The Swedish Pro Tennis Championships were created in Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of the 1972 WCT circuit, as one of the four non-American events of the tour, with the Canada International of Essen, Germany, and the Rotterdam Indoors of Rotterdam, Netherlands. The first tournament in 1972 (which field included a sixteen-year-old Björn Borg), saw the victory of eventual WCT year-end No. 1 John Newcombe,[1] and the second, of 1973's Group A leader Stan Smith.[2] Like many events of the WCT, the Swedish Pro was quickly discontinued as the circuit was searching for new locations to improve its list of tournaments. Gothenburg continued to host Sweden's national championships, as well as Davis Cup ties, and several exhibitions, like the 1976-Rod Laver/Björn Borg challenge match,[3] but the city's international tennis tournament was never revived.

Past finals

Singles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1973 Template:Flagicon Stan Smith Template:Flagicon John Alexander 5–7, 6–4, 6–2
1972 Template:Flagicon John Newcombe Template:Flagicon Roy Emerson 6–0, 6–3, 6–1

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1973 Template:Flagicon Roy Emerson
Template:Flagicon Rod Laver
Template:Flagicon Nikola Pilić
Template:Flagicon Allan Stone
6–7, 6–4, 6–1
1972 Template:Flagicon Tom Okker
Template:Flagicon Marty Riessen
Template:Flagicon Ismail El Shafei
Template:Flagicon Brian Fairlie
6–2, 7–6

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