The 1984 US Open was a

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tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the

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. It was the 104th edition of the US Open and was held from August 28 to September 9, 1984.

Seniors

Men's singles

John McEnroe John Patrick McEnroe Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. He was known for his shot-making and volleying skills, his rivalries with Björn Borg and Jimmy Connors, and his confrontational on-court beha ...

defeated Ivan Lendl 6–3, 6–4, 6–1 * It was McEnroe's fourth US Open title and the last Grand Slam title.

Women's singles

Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova ( cs, Martina Navrátilová ; ; born October 18, 1956) is a Czech–American, former professional tennis player. Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Navratilova won 18 major singles titles, 31 maj ...

defeated

Chris Evert-Lloyd Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. Evert won 18 major singles titles, including a record seven French Open titles and a joint-record ...

4–6, 6–4, 6–4 * It was Navratilova's 18th career Grand Slam title and her 4th US Open title.

Men's doubles

John Fitzgerald / Tomáš Šmíd defeated

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/ Anders Järryd 7–6^(7–5), 6–3, 6–3 * It was Fitzgerald's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 2nd US Open title. It was Šmíd's 1st career Grand Slam title and his only US Open title.

Women's doubles

Pam Shriver Pamela Howard Shriver (born July 4, 1962) is an American former professional tennis player and current tennis broadcaster and pundit. During the 1980s and 1990s, Shriver won 133 titles, including 21 singles titles, 111 women's doubles titles, an ...

defeated

Anne Hobbs Anne Hobbs (born 21 August 1959 in Nottingham) is a British former professional tennis player. Tennis career Hobbs represented Great Britain in the Wightman Cup and Federation Cup from 1978 to 1989. She was ranked as the top British player for ...

Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull, , (born 26 November 1952) is a retired tennis player from Australia. During her career, she won nine Grand Slam titles, four of them in women's doubles and five of them in mixed doubles. She also was a three-time Grand Slam runn ...

6–2, 6–4 * It was Navratilova's 29th career Grand Slam title and her 7th US Open title. It was Shriver's 9th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd US Open title.

Mixed doubles

Manuela Maleeva Manuela Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Мануела Георгиева Малеева; born 14 February 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour between 1982 and 1994. Through her marriage, Maleeva began re ...

/ Tom Gullikson defeated Elizabeth Sayers / John Fitzgerald 2–6, 7–5, 6–4 * It was Maleeva's only career Grand Slam title. It was Gullikson's only career Grand Slam title.

Juniors

Boys' singles

Mark Kratzmann defeated

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6–3, 7–6

Girls' singles

Katerina Maleeva Katerina Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Катерина Георгиева Малеева; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 Bulgarian tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles. Her best position in the WTA rankings was ...

defeated Niurka Sodupe 6–1, 6–2 Semifinal girls' singles Katerina Maleeva defeated Steffi Graf 7-5, 7-6

Boys' doubles

Leonardo Lavalle Leonardo Lavalle Moreno (born 14 July 1967) is a former tennis player from Mexico, who turned professional in 1985. He represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he was defeated in the quarterfinals by Spain' ...

Mihnea-Ion Năstase Mihnea-Ion Năstase (born 7 February 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Romania. He is a nephew of two-time Grand Slam winner Ilie Năstase and his father, Constantin Năstase, was a Romanian Davis Cup representative. Career Năst ...

defeated

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/ Jaime Yzaga 7–6, 1–6, 6–1

Girls' doubles

Mercedes Paz Mercedes María Paz (; born 27 June 1966) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She won three singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 28 in April 1991. Her best Grand Slam result was the fou ...

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defeated

Stephanie London Stephanie London Krogius (born August 18, 1969) is an American former professional tennis player. She played collegiate tennis for the University of Southern California and was a three-time All-American. London, a junior doubles finalist at the ...

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6–4, 3–6, 6–2

"Super Saturday"

September 8, 1984, is generally considered the single greatest day in tennis history. Each of the four matches played at

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, the tournament's Center Court at the time, went the maximum number of sets. All eight players would win at least one Grand Slam title, seven were eventually inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. From the opening serve of the first contest at 11:07 am ( ET) to match point of the final one at 11:16 pm,Robson, Douglas. "U.S. Open's first 'Super Saturday' still resonates," ''USA Today'', Friday, September 11, 2009.
/ref> there were 16 sets, 165 games and 979 points.
/ref> The day opened with an over-35 men's singles semifinal match won by

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over

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. In the first of two men's singles semifinal contests, Ivan Lendl advanced to his third consecutive US Open final after outlasting

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3–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–7 (5–7), 7–6 (7–4). The last two matches involved rivalries.

captured the second of her four US Open women's singles championships by defeating

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4–6, 6–4, 6–4. The other men's singles semifinal between

and

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didn't begin until 7:28 pm. McEnroe survived a nighttime thriller 6–4, 4–6, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3, en route to what would be the last singles Grand Slam title of his career (subsequently adding to his men's doubles titles at the US Open in 1989 and Wimbledon in 1992). The lengthy day at Center Court was made possible by CBS which was televising the tournament. Not wanting a recurrence of what happened the previous year when three quick contests forced a scramble to fill the remaining allocated time, the network had requested the addition of the Smith-Newcombe match to lead off the program. The broadcast established what was then the longest continuous coverage of a sporting event in American television history.CBS at 75 Timeline: 1980s – CBS.com.
Tennis fans who were present at Armstrong Stadium to enjoy all the contests that day were able to do so on a single admission. When both Serena and Venus Williams made the tournament finals together for the first time in

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, organizers switched the women's singles championship match to

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to attract more television viewers. In the process, they also began charging separate admission for each of the two sessions on the last Saturday of the fortnight.

References

External links

Official US Open website
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