1994 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The 1994 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a 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 played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 22nd edition of the event known that year as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the 500 series of the ATP Tour...

, and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour

1994 ATP Tour

The Association of Tennis Professionals Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the ATP. The ATP Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments , the ATP Super 9, the ATP Championship Series, the ATP World Series, the ATP World Team Cup, the Davis Cup , the ATP Tour World...

. It took place at the Ahoy Rotterdam indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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, Netherlands, from February 21 through February 27, 1994.

The singles field was led by ATP

Association of Tennis Professionals

The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

No. 4, 1993 ATP Tour World Championships

1993 ATP Tour World Championships

The 1993 ATP Tour World Championships was a tennis tournament and was part of the 1993 IBM ATP Tour. The singles tournament was held from November 16 to 21 on indoor carpet courts in Frankfurt, Germany. The doubles tournament took place between November 24 to 28, 1993 on Hard courts in...

titlist and recent Marseille semifinalist Michael Stich

Michael Stich

Michael Detlef Stich is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1991...

, Australian Open quarterfinalist and Stuttgart Indoor

1994 Eurocard Open

The 1994 Stockholm Open was an ATP tournament held in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held February 14-21.The single's draw was headlined by. Other top seeds were.-Men's Singles:...

runner-up Goran Ivanišević

Goran Ivaniševic

Goran Ivanišević is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He is best remembered for being the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanišević is famous...

, and other Australian Open quarterfinalist, Auckland and Dubai

1994 Dubai Tennis Championships

The 1994 Dubai Open was the second edition of this tennis tournament and was played on outdoor hard courts. The tournament was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from January 31 through February 7, 1994....

champion Magnus Gustafsson

Magnus Gustafsson

Magnus Nils Gustafsson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.Gustafsson won 14 top-level singles titles during his career, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 10 in 1991. He was also part of the Swedish team which won the Davis Cup in 1998...

. Other seeds were Milan champion Boris Becker

Boris Becker

Boris Franz Becker is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17...

, Oahu

1994 Oahu Open

The 1994 Oahu Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 1st edition of the Oahu Open, and was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour...

titlist Wayne Ferreira

Wayne Ferreira

Wayne Richard Ferreira is a former tennis player from South Africa. He attended Parktown Boys' High School....

, Alexander Volkov

Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov

Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov is a former professional tennis player from Russia.Volkov turned professional in 1988.Volkov finished runner-up in three tournaments over 1989 and 1990; in the latter year he defeated World No. 1 Stefan Edberg in straight sets in the first round of the US Open....

, Karel Nováček

Karel Novácek

Karel Nováček is a retired Czech former top ten tennis player. Born in Prostějov, Czechoslovakia . Nováček now lives in Boca Raton, Florida, United States....

and Jonas Svensson

Jonas Svensson

Jonas Svensson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.During his career, Svensson was a French Open semi-finalist twice both times as unseeded player....

Singles

Michael Stich
Michael Stich
Michael Detlef Stich is a former professional tennis player from Germany. He is best remembered for winning the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1991...

def.

Wayne Ferreira

Wayne Richard Ferreira is a former tennis player from South Africa. He attended Parktown Boys' High School....

, 4–6, 6–3, 6–0

It was Michael Stich's 1st title of the year, and his 14th overall.

Doubles

Jeremy Bates /

Jonas Björkman
Jonas Björkman
Jonas Lars Björkman is a former World Number 4 Swedish professional tennis player. He is also a former World No. 1 in doubles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup Doubles championships....

def.

Jacco Eltingh

Jacco Folkert Eltingh is a former professional male tennis player and former World No. 1 doubles player from the Netherlands.He is best remembered for his success in doubles with fellow countryman Paul Haarhuis...

Paul Haarhuis

Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former World No. 1 doubles player. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.-Personal life:...

, 6–4, 6–1

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