1995 ATP Tour World Championships
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The 1995 ATP Tour World Championships (also known for the singles event as the IBM
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-ATP Tour World Championship
for sponsorship reasons) were tennis
Tennis
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 tournaments played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 26th edition of the year-end singles championships
Tennis Masters Cup
The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played at the end of each year, involving the top eight players in the men's tennis world rankings....

, the 22nd edition of the year-end doubles championships
Tennis Masters Cup
The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals is a tennis tournament played at the end of each year, involving the top eight players in the men's tennis world rankings....

, and both were part of the 1995 ATP Tour
1995 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...

. The singles event took place at the Frankfurt Festhalle
Festhalle Frankfurt
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 in Frankfurt
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, Germany
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, from November 14 through November 19, 1996, and the doubles event in Eindhoven, Netherlands
Netherlands
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, from November 22 through November 26, 1995.

Singles

  Boris Becker
Boris Becker
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def.   Michael Chang
Michael Chang
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, 7–6(3), 6–0, 7–6(5)
  • It was Boris Becker's 2nd title of the year, and his 44th overall. It was his 3rd year-end championships title.

Doubles

  Grant Connell
Grant Connell
Grant Connell is a former professional tennis player from Canada. He was one of the world's top doubles player from the early through middle 1990s....

/   Patrick Galbraith
Patrick Galbraith
Patrick Galbraith is a former professional tennis player from the United States.A doubles specialist, Galbraith reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking in 1993. During his career he won 38 top-level doubles titles. He was a mixed doubles champion at the US Open in 1994 and 1996...

def.   Jacco Eltingh
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 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:...

, 7–6(6), 7–6(6), 3–6, 7–6(2).

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