1978 Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Doubles | |
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1978 Swiss Indoors | |
Champion | ![]() ![]() |
Runner-up | ![]() ![]() |
Score | 7–6, 7–5 |
Draw | 16 |
Seeds | 4 |
The 1978 Swiss Indoors – Doubles was an event of the 1978 Swiss Indoors tennis tournament and was played on indoor hard courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, between 24 October and 29 October 1978. The draw consisted of 16 teams and four of them were seeded. Mark Cox and Buster Mottram were the defending Swiss Indoors doubles champions but did not participate in this edition. The first-seeded team of Wojciech Fibak and John McEnroe won the doubles title after a win in the final against unseeded pairing Bruce Manson and Andrew Pattison, 7–6, 7–5.[1][2]
Seeds
Wojciech Fibak /
John McEnroe (champions)
Ion Țiriac /
Guillermo Vilas (semifinals)
Anand Amritraj /
Raymond Moore (quarterfinals)
Colin Dowdeswell /
Heinz Günthardt (semifinals)
Draw
Key
- Q = Qualifier
- WC = Wild card
- LL = Lucky loser
- Alt = Alternate
- ITF = ITF entry
- PR = Protected ranking
- SR = Special ranking
- SE = Special exempt
- JE = Junior exempt
- JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
- CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
- NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
- w/o = Walkover
- r = Retired
- d = Defaulted
References
- ^ John Barrett, ed. (1979). World of Tennis 1979 : a BP yearbook. London: Macdonald and Jane's. pp. 26, 29, 126. ISBN 978-0354090681.
- ^ "1978 Basel – Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).