1980 Avon Championships
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The 1980 Avon Championships were the ninth WTA Tour Championships
WTA Tour Championships
The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association tour. The month, city and number of players has changed since the first edition in 1972...

, the annual tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1980 WTA Tour. It was held in the week of 17 March 1980, in Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
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 in New York City
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, United States
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Singles

Final


Tracy Austin
Tracy Austin
Tracy Ann Austin Holt is a former World No. 1 female professional tennis player from the United States who won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1979 and 1981 and the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 1980, before a series of injuries cut her career short.-To 1980:Austin defeated...

(USA) defeated Martina Navratilova (USA) in the final, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.
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