1997 Great American Insurance ATP Championships – Doubles
1997 tennis event results
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1997 Great American Insurance ATP Championships | |||
Final | |||
Champions |
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Runners-up |
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Score | 7–6, 4–6, 6–4 | ||
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Draw | 28 (4 WC /2 Q ) | ||
Seeds | 8 | ||
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Main article:
1997 Great American Insurance ATP Championships
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor were the defending champions, but Knowles did not compete this year. Nestor teamed up with Cyril Suk and lost in quarterfinals to Olivier Delaître and Fabrice Santoro .
Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde won the title by defeating Mark Philippoussis and Patrick Rafter 7–6, 4–6, 6–4 in an all-Australian final. [1] [2]
Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye into the second round.
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Todd Woodbridge /
Mark Woodforde (champions)
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Yevgeny Kafelnikov /
Daniel Vacek (second round)
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Sébastien Lareau /
Alex O'Brien (semifinals)
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Daniel Nestor /
Cyril Suk (quarterfinals)
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Ellis Ferreira /
Patrick Galbraith (quarterfinals)
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Rick Leach /
Jonathan Stark (first round)
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Mark Philippoussis /
Patrick Rafter (final)
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Donald Johnson /
Francisco Montana (second round)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- SE = Special exempt
- PR = Protected ranking
- ITF = ITF entry
- JE = Junior exempt
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
- SR = Special ranking
Finals
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7 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||
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4 | 7 | 6 |
Top half
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6 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 | 7 |
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2 | 6 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Q |
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6 | 6 | 1 |
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2 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
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0 | 4 |
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6 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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6 | 6 |
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7 | 5 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Q |
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5 | 1 | 8 |
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5 | 7 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
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7 | 6 | 1 |
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6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 |
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2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 |
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6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 | 4 |
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2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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6 | 6 | 3 |
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4 | 2 | 5 |
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6 | 6 |
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WC |
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6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
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5 |
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7 | 2 | 7 |
Bottom half
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7 | 6 |
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5 | 6 |
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7 | 7 |
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WC |
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4 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
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6 | 4 | 6 | WC |
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2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
4 |
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6 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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7 |
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7 | 6 | 7 |
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4 | 7 | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
WC |
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5 | 4 | 7 |
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6 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2 | 7 | 3 |
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4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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6 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
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6 | 7 |
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2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 | 6 |
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4 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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6 | 6 | 6 |
Qualifying
Qualifying seeds
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Kelly Jones /
Byron Talbot (qualifying competition)
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Kent Kinnear /
Aleksandar Kitinov (first round)
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Peter Nyborg /
Mikael Tillström (qualifying competition)
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Vince Spadea /
Eric Taino (first round)
Qualifiers
Qualifying draw
First qualifier
First round | Qualifying competition | ||||||||||||
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6 | 6 | ||||||||||
WC |
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3 | 1 | ||||||||||
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3 | 4 | ||||||||||
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6 | 6 | |||||||||||
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4 |
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3 | 1 |
Second qualifier
First round | Qualifying competition | ||||||||||||
2 |
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6 | 4 | ||||||||||
WC |
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7 | 6 | ||||||||||
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3 |
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6 | 4 | ||||||||||
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6 | 3 | ||||||||||
3 |
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7 | 6 |
References
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↑
"About - Past Champions"
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Western & Southern Open
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Cincinnati
. Retrieved
15 November
2022
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1997: Todd Woodbridge/AUS & Mark Woodforde/AUS
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Altavilla, John (18 August 1997).
"Doubles Champions on rise in ranking"
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Hartford Courant
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New Haven, Connecticut
. Retrieved
15 November
2022
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Last week in Cincinnati, they both took a beating from the Woodies -- Bhupathi and Paes in the quarterfinals, Lareau and O'Brien in the semifinals -- as the Woodies won another title.