The 1988 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's

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tournament played on indoor

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s at the

Palais des Sports de Gerland Palais des Sports de Gerland is an indoor sporting arena located in Lyon, France. The seating capacity of the arena is 5,910 people. History It was the venue of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon tournament. The arena was the regular home venue of ...

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, France, and was part of the

1988 Nabisco Grand Prix The 1988 Nabisco Grand Prix was the only men's tennis circuit held that year. It incorporated the four grand slam (tennis), grand slam tournaments, three World Championship Tennis tournaments and the Grand Prix tennis circuit, Grand Prix tournamen ...

. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 8 February through 15 February 1988. Unseeded qualifier

Yahiya Doumbia Yahiya Doumbia (born 25 August 1963) is a retired professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses ...

won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

defeated Todd Nelson 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 * It was Doumbia's only title of the year and the 1st of his career.

Doubles

Brad Drewett /

Broderick Dyke Broderick Dyke (born 31 December 1960) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. Dyke enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 8 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 14 times ...

defeated

Michael Mortensen Michael Mortensen (born 12 March 1961) is a former professional tennis player from Denmark. Mortensen achieved a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 34 in 1988 and a career-high singles ranking of world No. 301 in 1984. He won five ATP dou ...

/ Blaine Willenborg 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 * It was Drewett's only title of the year and the 9th of his career. It was Dyke's only title of the year and the 6th of his career.

References

External links

ITF tournament edition details
{{1988 Nabisco Grand Prix

Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon The Open Sud de France (formerly known as the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon) is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the ATP Tour 250 series of the ATP Tour. It was held annually at the Palais des ...

Open Sud de France