Avon Futures of Puerto Rico

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Avon Futures of Puerto Rico
Defunct tennis tournament
Event nameBorniquen Classic
Tour WTA Tour
Founded1977
Abolished1978
Editions2
Location San Juan, Puerto Rico
Surface Hard / outdoor

The Avon Futures of Puerto Rico [1] is a defunct tennis tournament founded in 1977 as the Borniquen Tennis Classic. [2] The tournament was part of the Avon Futures Circuit and was held in San Juan in Puerto Rico and was played on outdoor hard courts. [3] It was the successor event to the early Caribe Hilton Invitational that was a combined men's and women's tournament. This event ran until 1978 when it was discontinued. In 1986 a successor women's event was established called the Puerto Rico Open, initially played in San Juan.

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Past finals

Singles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
1977 Flag of the United States.svg Billie Jean King Flag of the United States.svg Janet Newberry 6–1, 6–3
1978 Flag of the United States.svg Julie Anthony Flag of the United States.svg Mary Hamm 6–7, 6–4, 7–6

Doubles

YearChampionsRunners-upScore
1977 [4] Flag of the United States.svg Rosemary Casals
Flag of the United States.svg Billie Jean King 		Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Delina Ann Boshoff
Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg Ilana Kloss 		4–6, 6–2, 6–3
1978 Flag of the United States.svg Jane Stratton
Flag of Sweden.svg Mimi Wikstedt 		Flag of the United States.svg Ann Kiyomura
Flag of the United States.svg Valerie Ziegenfuss 		7–5, 2–6, 6–3

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Avon Tennis Circuit". womenSports . New York: Women Sports Publishing Company. 1978. p. 68.
  2. ↑ "A King-Casals Victory". The New York Times. New York City, United States. 31 October 1977. p. 43.
  3. ↑ John Barrett, ed. (1979). World of Tennis 1979 : a BP yearbook. London: Macdonald and Jane's. p. 185. ISBN   978-0354090681.
  4. ↑ "A King‐Casals Victory". The New York Times. October 31, 1977. p. 42.


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