The 1996 ATP Tour World Championships and the Phoenix ATP Tour World Doubles Championships were

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 a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournaments played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 27th edition of the year-end singles championships, the 23rd edition of the year-end doubles championships and both were part of the

1996 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 Super 9, the ...

. The singles tournament took place at the EXPO 2000 Tennis Dome in

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

in Germany from November 19 through November 24, 1996, while the doubles tournament took place at the

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in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States from November 13 through November 17, 1996.

Champions

Singles

Pete Sampras defeated Boris Becker 3–6, 7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(7–4), 6–7^(11–13), 6–4 * It was Sampras' 8th title of the year and the 45th of his career. It was his 3rd year-end championships title. * Boris Becker started off the first game of first set with four aces in a row.

Doubles

Todd Woodbridge Todd Andrew Woodbridge, OAM (born 2 April 1971) is an Australian former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster with the Nine Network. Woodbridge is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde (n ...

Mark Woodforde Mark Raymond Woodforde, OAM (born 23 September 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is best known as one half of " The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge. Woodforde was born in Adelaide, and joine ...

defeated

Sébastien Lareau Sébastien Lareau (; born April 27, 1973) is a former professional tennis player. He became the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam title by winning the 1999 US Open men's doubles with his American partner Alex O'Brien. As a singles playe ...

Alex O'Brien Alex O'Brien (born ) is an American former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. He gained the top ranking in May 2000 and was ranked as high as world No. 30 in singles in June 1997. He won his only singles title at New Haven, Connecticut, in 199 ...

6–4, 5–7, 6–2, 7–6^(7–3). * It was Woodbridge's 12th title of the year and the 52nd of his career. It was Woodforde's 13th title of the year and the 56th of his career.

References

External links

Official website
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