1988 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles

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Singles
1988 WCT Finals
Champion Flag of Germany.svg Boris Becker
Runner-up Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Edberg
Final score 64, 16, 75, 62
Events
Singles Doubles
  1987  · WCT Finals ·  1989  

Miloslav Mečíř was the defending champion but did not compete that year.

Miloslav Mečíř Czechoslovakian tennis player

Miloslav Mečíř is a former professional tennis player from Slovakia. He won the men's singles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games, where he represented Czechoslovakia, and played in two Grand Slam singles finals. In 1987 he won the WCT Finals, the major season-ending championship for the World Championship Tennis tour.

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Boris Becker won in the final 64, 16, 75, 62 against Stefan Edberg.

Boris Becker German tennis player

Boris Franz Becker is a German former world No. 1 professional tennis player. He was successful from the start of his career, winning the first of his six major singles titles at age 17. He also won five year-end championships, 13 Masters Series titles and an Olympic gold medal in doubles. Tennis magazine ranked him the 11th best male player of the period 1965–2005.

Stefan Edberg Swedish tennis player

Stefan Bengt Edberg is a Swedish former world No. 1 professional tennis player. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He also won the Masters Grand Prix and was a part of the Swedish Davis Cup-winning-team four times. In addition he won four Masters Series titles, four Championship Series titles and the unofficial Olympic tournament 1984, was ranked in the singles top 10 for ten successive years, 9 years in the top 5, and is considered one of the greatest players of his era. Edberg began coaching Roger Federer in January 2014, with this partnership ending in December 2015.

Seeds

A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

  1. Flag of Germany.svg Boris Becker (Champion)
  2. Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Edberg (Final)
  3. Flag of France.svg Yannick Noah (Semifinals)
  4. Flag of Australia.svg Pat Cash (Quarterfinals)

Draw

Key

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                     
1 Flag of Germany.svg Boris Becker 63 66 
  Flag of Ecuador.svg Andrés Gómez 4 62 4  
1 Flag of Germany.svg Boris Becker 666  
  Flag of the United States.svg Brad Gilbert 4 2 1   
4 Flag of Australia.svg Pat Cash 636614  
  Flag of the United States.svg Brad Gilbert 774 776 
1 Flag of Germany.svg Boris Becker 61 76 
2 Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Edberg 4 65 2  
  Flag of the United States.svg Tim Mayotte 4 3 3   
3 Flag of France.svg Yannick Noah 666  
3 Flag of France.svg Yannick Noah 2 63 3  
2 Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Edberg 64 66 
  Flag of Argentina.svg Martín Jaite 4 3 0   
2 Flag of Sweden.svg Stefan Edberg 666  

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