Avon Cup

Avon Cup
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name Avon Cup (1983–84)
BMW Championships (1985)
Tournament of Champions (1986)
Tour WTA Tour (1983–86)
Founded 1983
Abolished 1986
Editions 4
Surface Clay (1983–84, 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.

Past finals

Singles

Year Tournament Champions Runners-up Score
1983Avon CupUnited States Andrea JaegerCzechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková6–1, 6–3
1984Avon CupUnited States Bonnie GadusekUnited States Kathleen Horvath3–6, 6–0, 6–4
1985BMW ChampionshipsUnited States Bonnie GadusekUnited States Pam Casale6–3, 6–4
1986edition was part of the Tournament of Champions

Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
1983United States Andrea Jaeger
United States Mary Lou Piatek		United States Rosemary Casals
Australia Wendy Turnbull		7–5, 6–4
1984Czechoslovakia Hana Mandlíková
Czechoslovakia Helena Suková		United States Andrea Jaeger
United Kingdom Anne Hobbs		3–6, 6–2, 6–2
1985United States Kathy Jordan
Australia Elizabeth Sayers		United States Camille Benjamin
United States Bonnie Gadusek		6–3, 6–3
1986edition was part of the Tournament of Champions
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