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1978 World Championship Tennis Finals

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Date
  
May 9 – May 14

Category
  
Grand Prix

Prize money
  
$200,000

Edition
  
8th

Draw
  
8S

Surface
  
Carpet / Indoor

The 1978 World Championship Tennis Finals was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 8th edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1978 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix, as the World Championship Tennis and the Grand Prix circuits were now combined. It was played at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas in the United States and was held from May 9 through May 14, 1978. Third-seeded Vitas Gerulaitis won the title and $100,000 first-prize money.

Men's Singles

Vitas Gerulaitis defeated Eddie Dibbs 6–3, 6–2, 6–1

  • It was Gerulaitis' 3rd title of the year and the 18th of his career.
  • References

    1978 World Championship Tennis Finals Wikipedia