1976 WCT World Doubles

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1976 WCT World Doubles
DateApril 28 – May 2
Edition4th
Draw8D
Prize money$100,000
Surface Carpet / indoor
Location Kansas City, U.S.
Venue Municipal Auditorium
Champions
Doubles
Flag of Poland.svg Wojciech Fibak / Flag of Germany.svg Karl Meiler [1]
  1975  · WCT World Doubles ·  1977  

The 1976 WCT World Doubles was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri in the United States that was part of the 1976 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the tour finals for the doubles season of the WCT Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from April 28 through May 2, 1976. Wojciech Fibak and Karl Meiler won the title and earned $40,000. [2]

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Final

Doubles

Flag of Poland.svg Wojciech Fibak / Flag of Germany.svg Karl Meiler defeated Flag of the United States.svg Robert Lutz / Flag of the United States.svg Stan Smith 6–2, 2–6, 3–6, 6–3, 6–4

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References

  1. "1976 WCT Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  2. John Barrett, ed. (1977). World of Tennis 1977 : a BP yearbook. London: Macdonald and Janes. pp. 141, 147. ISBN   9780354090117.