The 1994 Cincinnati Open, known by the corporate title of the Thriftway ATP Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 93rd edition of the

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and was part of the

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of the

1994 ATP Tour The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the ATP. The ATP Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments (organized by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the ATP Championship ...

It took place in

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, United States, from August 8 through August 15, 1994. The tournament had previously appeared on the Tier III of the

WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tourna ...

but no event was held from 1989 to 2003.

Finals

Singles

Michael Chang Michael Te-pei Chang (born February 22, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player and coach. He is the youngest man in history to win a singles major, winning the 1989 French Open at 17 years and 109 days old. Chang won a total o ...

defeated

Stefan Edberg Stefan Bengt Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 ...

6–2, 7–5 *It was Michael Chang's 5th title of the year and his 18th overall. It was his 1st Masters title of the year and his 5th overall. It was also his second title at the event after winning in

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Doubles

Alex O'Brien Alex O'Brien (born ) is an American former doubles world No. 1 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 ...

Sandon Stolle Sandon Stolle (born 13 July 1970) is a former professional male tennis player and at one time ranked No. 2 in World doubles. Sandon is the son of Australian tennis champion Fred Stolle, the former was born in Sydney and now lives in Aventura, ...

defeated

Wayne Ferreira Wayne Richard Ferreira (born 15 September 1971) is a South African former professional tennis player and current tennis coach. Career As a junior player, Ferreira was ranked world no. 1 junior doubles player and no. 6 junior singles player. He ...

Mark Kratzmann Mark Edward Kratzmann (born 17 May 1966) is a former Australian professional tennis player. Tennis career Kratzmann was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1983. Juniors As the world's No. 1 ranked junior player in 1984, K ...

6–7, 6–3, 6–2

References

External links

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Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile
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