1981 Grand Marnier Tennis Games - Singles
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Jimmy Connors
Jimmy Connors
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

 won in the final 6–3, 7–6 against Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...

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Seeds

A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.
  1.   Jimmy Connors
    Jimmy Connors
    James Scott "Jimmy" Connors is an American former world no. 1 tennis player....

     (Champion)
  2.   Ivan Lendl
    Ivan Lendl
    Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...

     (Final)
  3.   Harold Solomon
    Harold Solomon
    Harold Solomon was an American professional tennis player during the 1970s and 1980s. He achieved a career-high ranking of No. 5 in the world in 1980.- Tennis career :...

     (Semifinals)
  4.   Brian Teacher
    Brian Teacher
    Brian David Teacher is a 6' 3" right handed American former professional male tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking World No. 7 in 1981....

     (First Round)
  5.   Roscoe Tanner
    Roscoe Tanner
    Roscoe Tanner is an American former professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career high world singles ranking of World No...

     (Quarterfinals)
  6.   Yannick Noah
    Yannick Noah
    Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...

     (First Round)
  7.   Eliot Teltscher
    Eliot Teltscher
    Eliot Teltscher is a retired professional American tennis player.-Early years:Teltscher's mother was born in Israel; his father emigrated there during the Holocaust, and joined the British army...

     (Semifinals)
  8.   Brian Gottfried
    Brian Gottfried
    Brian Edward Gottfried is a retired tennis player from the United States who won 25 singles titles and 54 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest ranking on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour on June 19, 1977, when he became World No....

     (Quarterfinals)


  1.   Eddie Dibbs
    Eddie Dibbs
    Eddie Dibbs is a retired American tennis player. He attained a career high ranking of World No. 5 in July 1978.-Wins :-Runner-ups :-Grand Slam singles tournament timeline:...

     (Third Round)

  2.   Johan Kriek
    Johan Kriek
    Johan Kriek is a South African American professional male tennis player and founder of the Global Water Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering clean water to the world's neediest communities. Kriek has won two Australian Opens and has reached the semi-finals at the French...

     (Second Round)

  3.   Victor Amaya
    Victor Amaya
    Victor Amaya is a former American male professional tour tennis player.The left-handed Amaya's career high ranking was World No. 15, which he attained in June, 1980....

     (First Round)

  4.   Kim Warwick
    Kim Warwick
    Kim Warwick is a former Australian professional male tennis player mostly known for his doubles titles with Mark Edmondson, and for reaching the final of the singles Australian Open in 1980...

     (First Round)

  5.   Robert Lutz (Third Round)

  6.   Tomáš Šmíd
    Tomáš Šmíd
    Tomáš Šmíd is a former tennis player from Czechoslovakia, who won nine singles titles during his career. In doubles, he won fifty-four titles and was the world's highest-ranking doubles player from December 17, 1984, to August 11, 1985. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on...

     (Quarterfinals)

  7.   José Higueras
    José Higueras
    José Higueras is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Spain.Between 1976 and 1984, Higueras won 16 top-level singles titles. A semi-finalist at the French Open in 1982 and 1983, he reached the World No. 6 singles ranking in 1983...

     (Second Round)

  8.   Mel Purcell
    Mel Purcell
    Mel Purcell is a former World No. 17 tennis player in the ATP tennis rankings. He is the head coach of the Murray State University men's tennis team...

     (Third Round)


Finals

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