1978 ABN World Tennis Tournament – Doubles

Doubles
1978 ABN World Tennis Tournament
ChampionUnited States Fred McNair
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
Runner-upUnited States Bob Lutz
United States Stan Smith
Score6–2, 6–3
Draw11
Seeds4

The 1978 ABN World Tennis Tournament – Doubles was an event of the 1978 ABN World Tennis Tournament tennis tournament and was played on indoor carpet courts at Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands, between 3 April and 9 April 1978. The draw comprised 11 teams and four of them were seeded. Second-seeded Wojciech Fibak and Tom Okker were the defending Rotterdam Open doubles champions but lost in the quarterfinals. The fourth-seeded team of Fred McNair and Raúl Ramírez won the doubles title after a win in the final against first-seeded pairing Bob Lutz and Stan Smith, 7–5, 7–5.[1]

Seeds

  1. United States Bob Lutz / United States Stan Smith (final)
  2. Poland Wojciech Fibak / Netherlands Tom Okker (quarterfinals)
  3. United States Vitas Gerulaitis / United States Sandy Mayer (quarterfinals, withdrew)
  4. United States Fred McNair / Mexico Raúl Ramírez (champions)

Draw

Key

First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
1 United States Bob Lutz
United States Stan Smith
6 6
United States Mike Cahill
United States Terry Moor
3 4
1 United States Bob Lutz
United States Stan Smith
79 6
South Africa Raymond Moore
Italy Tonino Zugarelli
67 3
3 United States Vitas Gerulaitis
United States Sandy Mayer
South Africa Raymond Moore
Italy Tonino Zugarelli
6 4 6 South Africa Raymond Moore
Italy Tonino Zugarelli
w/o
Netherlands Wouter Fok
United States Raymond Pascale
4 6 4 1 United States Bob Lutz
United States Stan Smith
2 3
4 United States Fred McNair
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
6 6
United States Tom Leonard
United States Mike MacHette
6 3 4
Sweden Ove Bengtson
Netherlands Louk Sanders
2 3 4 United States Fred McNair
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
3 6 6
4 United States Fred McNair
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
6 6 4 United States Fred McNair
Mexico Raúl Ramírez
6 6
Chile Jaime Fillol
Romania Ilie Năstase
4 4
Chile Jaime Fillol
Romania Ilie Năstase
77 77
Australia Syd Ball
Australia Kim Warwick
3 4 2 Poland Wojciech Fibak
Netherlands Tom Okker
64 65
2 Poland Wojciech Fibak
Netherlands Tom Okker
6 6

References

  1. ^ "1978 Rotterdam – Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).