St. Louis WCT

St. Louis WCT
St. Louis WCT
Defunct tennis tournament
Tour	WCT Tour
Founded	1970
Abolished	1978
Editions	8
Location	St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Surface	Carpet / indoor ; Clay / outdoor (1974–75)

The St. Louis WCT was a men's tennis tournament played in St. Louis, Missouri from 1970 to 1978. The event was part of the WCT Tour and was held on indoor carpet courts except from 1974 to 1975, when it was held on outdoor clay courts.

The inaugural 1970 edition was sponsored by the Rawling's Sporting Goods Company; the event's title name was the Rawling's Tennis Classic.

The following year 1971 the company sponsored another indoor WCT event the Dallas Tennis Classic as the Rawlings Classic Dallas.

From 1972 to 1974 the Holton Capital Group was the event main sponsors.

Finals

Singles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1970	Rod Laver	Ken Rosewall	6–1, 6–4
1971	Not held
1972	John Newcombe	Nikola Pilić	6–3, 6–3
1973	Stan Smith	Rod Laver	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
1974	Stan Smith	Alex Metreveli	6–2, 3–6, 6–2
1975	Vitas Gerulaitis	Roscoe Tanner	2–6, 6–2, 6–3
1976	Guillermo Vilas	Vijay Amritraj	4–6, 6–0, 6–4
1977	Jimmy Connors	John Alexander	7–6^(7–4), 6–2
1978	Sandy Mayer	Eddie Dibbs	7–6, 6–4

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1970	Andrés Gimeno John Newcombe	Roy Emerson Rod Laver	6–4, 6–0
1971	Not held
1972	John Newcombe Tony Roche	John Alexander Phil Dent	7–6, 3–6, 6–4
1973	Ove Nils Bengtson Jim McManus	Terry Addison Colin Dibley	6–2, 7–5
1974	Ismail El Shafei Brian Fairlie	Ross Case Geoff Masters	7–6, 6–7, 7–6
1975	Colin Dibley Ray Ruffels	Ross Case Geoff Masters	6–4, 6–4
1976	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	John Alexander Phil Dent	6–4, 6–2
1977	Ilie Năstase Adriano Panatta	Vijay Amritraj Dick Stockton	6–4, 3–6, 7–6
1978	Bob Hewitt Frew McMillan	Wojciech Fibak Tom Okker	6–3, 6–2

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