1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships

1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships
Date April 15–21
Edition 23rd
Prize money $935,000 (men)
$164,250 (women)
Surface Hard / outdoor
Location Tokyo, Japan
Venue Ariake Coliseum
Champions
Men's Singles
United States Pete Sampras [1]
Women's Singles
Japan Kimiko Date
Men's Doubles
Australia Todd Woodbridge / Australia Mark Woodforde [2]
Women's Doubles
Japan Kimiko Date / Japan Ai Sugiyama

The 1996 Japan Open Tennis Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the Championship Series of the 1996 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 1996 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from April 15 through April 21, 1996.[3] Pete Sampras and Kimiko Date won the singles titles.

Finals

Men's Singles

United States Pete Sampras defeated United States Richey Reneberg 6–4, 7–5

  • It was Sampras' 4th title of the year and the 42nd of his career.

Women's Singles

Japan Kimiko Date defeated United States Amy Frazier 7–5, 6–4

  • It was Date's 1st title of the year and the 6th of her career.

Men's Doubles

Australia Todd Woodbridge / Australia Mark Woodforde defeated The Bahamas Mark Knowles / United States Rick Leach 6–2, 6–3

  • It was Woodbridge's 5th title of the year and the 45th of his career. It was Woodforde's 6th title of the year and the 49th of his career.

Women's Doubles

Japan Kimiko Date / Japan Ai Sugiyama defeated United States Amy Frazier / United States Kimberly Po 7–6, 6–7, 6–3

  • It was Date's 2nd title of the year and the 7th of her career. It was Sugiyama's only title of the year and the 3rd of her career.

References

  1. ↑ "1996 Tokyo Men's Singles draw". www.atpworldtour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  2. ↑ "1996 Tokyo Men's Doubles draw". www.atpworldtour.com. Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  3. ↑ John Barrett, ed. (1997). International Tennis Federation World of Tennis 1997. London: CollinsWillow. pp. 139, 183. ISBN 9780002187145.
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