The 1986 Player's International Canadian Open was a
tennis
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tournament played on
outdoor hard courts. The men's tournament was held at the
National Tennis Centre in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, and was part of the
1986 Nabisco Grand Prix
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while the women's tournament was held at the
Jarry Park Stadium
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in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, and was part of the
1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series
The 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the 14th season since the foundation of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced on March 24, 1986, and concluded in December, 1986 after 41 events. The season was abbreviated in order to ...
. The men's tournament was held from August 11 through August 17, 1986, while the women's tournament was held from August 18 through August 24, 1986.
Finals
Men's singles
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker (, ; born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker was successful from the start of his career, winning the Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17. He ultimately won six Grand Slam singles tit ...
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 19 ...
6–4, 3–6, 6–3
* It was Becker's 4th title of the year and the 8th of his career.
Women's singles
Helena Suková
Helena Suková () (born 23 February 1965) is a Czech former professional tennis player. During her career, she won 14 major doubles titles, nine in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. She is also a two-time Olympic silver medalist in do ...
defeated
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 ...
6–2, 7–5
* It was Suková's 8th title of the year and the 20th of her career.
Men's doubles
Chip Hooper /
Mike Leach defeated
Boris Becker
Boris Franz Becker (, ; born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker was successful from the start of his career, winning the Wimbledon Championships at the age of 17. He ultimately won six Grand Slam singles tit ...
/
Slobodan Živojinović
Slobodan "Bobo" Živojinović ( sr-cyr, Слободан Живојиновић, ; born 23 July 1963) is a Serbian former professional tennis player who competed for SFR Yugoslavia.
Together with Nenad Zimonjić, he is the only tennis playe ...
6–7, 6–3, 6–3
* It was Hooper's 2nd title of the year and the 4th of his career. It was Leach's 1st title of the year and the 1st of his career.
Women's doubles
Zina Garrison
Zina Lynna Garrison (born November 16, 1963) is an American former professional tennis player. Garrison was the runner-up in singles at the 1990 Wimbledon Championships, a three-time major mixed doubles champion, and an Olympic gold and bronze m ...
/
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (; born 16 May 1970) is an Argentine-Italian former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 ...
defeated
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 ...
/
Helena Suková
Helena Suková () (born 23 February 1965) is a Czech former professional tennis player. During her career, she won 14 major doubles titles, nine in women's doubles and five in mixed doubles. She is also a two-time Olympic silver medalist in do ...
7–6, 5–7, 6–4
* It was Garrison's 3rd title of the year and the 6th of her career. It was Sabatini's 2nd title of the year and the 5th of her career.
See also
*
Becker–Edberg rivalry The Becker–Edberg rivalry was a tennis rivalry between Boris Becker and Stefan Edberg, who met 35 times between 1984 and 1996. Although Becker led their overall head-to-head 25–10 and won all three of their Davis Cup matches, Edberg won three ...
References
External links
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Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profileWomen's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament profile
{{1986 WTA Tour
Player's Canadian Open
Player's Canadian Open
Player's Canadian Open
Canadian Open (tennis)