The Milan Indoor, also known under various sponsored names, was a men's professional tennis tournament held from 1978 until 2005. It took placed in Milan, Italy with the exception of three years (1998–2000) when it was held in London, United Kingdom. The event was part of the Grand Prix circuit (1981–89) and ATP Tour (1990–2005) and was played on indoor carpet courts, except for the 2000 edition which was played on an indoor hard court. The most successful singles players were John McEnroe and Boris Becker who both won four titles. Stefan Edberg and Roger Federer won the first singles title of their career at the event.^[1] A single female edition of the event was held in 1991, won by Monica Seles. Due to a lack of sponsorship the tournament was replaced on the 2006 ATP Tour by the Zagreb Indoors.^[2]

History

The first four editions of the tournament, from 1978 until 1982, were part of the World Championship Tennis circuit, which during that time was incorporated into the Grand Prix calendar. From 1982 through 1989 the event was part of the Super Series tier of the Grand Prix circuit. Initially the tournament was played at the Palazzo dello Sport, near the San Siro stadium, but in 1985 the PalaLido became the event venue after heavy snowfall in January that year had caused the roof of the Palazzo dello Sport to collapse, forcing it to close. In 1987 the tournament moved again, this time to the newly-build Palazzo Trussardi. From 1990 to 1992, during the first years of the ATP Tour, the tournament was part of the World Series, its lowest tier, but in 1993 it was upgraded to the Championship Series tier. In 1991, the Assago Forum became the host of the event, before it moved back again to the Palatrussardi for the 1996 and 1997 editions.

In 1998 the tournament moved to London, England and was played at Battersea Park before moving to the London Arena in 2000 when it became part of the International Series Gold category. Due to the loss of its main sponsor the tournament moved back to its original host city Milan in 2001 where it was held at the PalaLido until its last edition in 2005.^[3] John McEnroe and Boris Becker won the singles title four times and the roll of honor contains 10 Grand Slam tournament winners, including Stefan Edberg and Roger Federer, who both won their first career singles title in Milan.

During its history the tournament was known under various, mostly sponsored, names; WCT Milan, the Cuore Tennis Cup, the Fila Trophy, the Stella Artois Indoor, the Muratti Time Indoors, the Italian Indoors, the Guardian Direct Cup, the AXA Cup, the Breil Milano Indoors, the ATP Indesit Milano Indoors, and the Internazionali di Lombardia.^[4]

Past finals

Roger Federer won his first career title in Milan in 2001, defeating Julien Boutter in the final

Boris Becker was the most successful player at the event, reaching five singles finals -winning four- and three doubles finals -winning all three of them-

Men

Singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
Milan	1978	Björn Borg	Vitas Gerulaitis	6–3, 6–3
	1979	John McEnroe	John Alexander	6–4, 6–3
	1980	John McEnroe	Vijay Amitraj	6–1, 6–4
	1981	John McEnroe	Björn Borg	7–6(7–2), 6–4
	1982	Guillermo Vilas	Jimmy Connors	6–3, 6–3
	1983	Ivan Lendl	Kevin Curren	5–7, 6–3, 7–6
	1984	Stefan Edberg	Mats Wilander	6–4, 6–2
	1985	John McEnroe	Anders Järryd	6–4, 6–1
	1986	Ivan Lendl	Joakim Nyström	6–2, 6–2, 6–4
	1987	Boris Becker	Miloslav Mečíř	6–4, 6–3
	1988	Yannick Noah	Jimmy Connors	4–4 retired
	1989	Boris Becker	Alexander Volkov	6–1, 6–2
	1990	Ivan Lendl	Tim Mayotte	6–3, 6–2
	1991	Alexander Volkov	Cristiano Caratti	6–1, 7–5
	1992	Omar Camporese	Goran Ivanišević	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
	1993	Boris Becker	Sergi Bruguera	6–3, 6–3
	1994	Boris Becker	Petr Korda	6–2, 3–6, 6–3
	1995	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Boris Becker	7–5, 5–7, 7–6(8–6)
	1996	Goran Ivanišević	Marc Rosset	6–3, 7–6(7–3)
	1997	Goran Ivanišević	Sergi Bruguera	6–2, 6–2
London	1998	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	Cédric Pioline	7–5, 6–4
	1999	Richard Krajicek	Greg Rusedski	7–6(8–6), 6–7(5–7), 7–5
	2000	Marc Rosset	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–4, 6–4
Milan	2001	Roger Federer	Julien Boutter	6–4, 6–7(7–9), 6–4
	2002	Davide Sanguinetti	Roger Federer	7–6(7–2), 4–6, 6–1
	2003	Martin Verkerk	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	6–4, 5–7, 7–5
	2004	Antony Dupuis	Mario Ančić	6–4, 6–7(12–14), 7–6(7–5)
	2005	Robin Söderling	Radek Štěpánek	6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–5)
replaced by Zagreb Indoors

Doubles

Location	Year	Champion	Runners-up	Score
Milan	1978	José Higueras Víctor Pecci	Wojtek Fibak Raúl Ramírez	5–7, 7–6, 7–6
	1979	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	José Luis Clerc Tomáš Šmíd	6–1, 6–3
	1980	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Andrew Pattison Butch Walts	6–4, 6–3
	1981	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	John McEnroe Peter Rennert	7–6, 6–3
	1982	Heinz Günthardt Peter McNamara	Mark Edmondson Sherwood Stewart	7–6, 7–6
	1983	Tomáš Šmíd Pavel Složil	Fritz Buehning Peter Fleming	6–2, 5–7, 6–4
	1984	Tomáš Šmíd Pavel Složil	Kevin Curren Steve Denton	6–4, 6–3
	1985	Heinz Günthardt Anders Järryd	Broderick Dyke Wally Masur	6–2, 6–1
	1986	Colin Dowdeswell Christo Steyn	Brian Levine Laurie Warder	6–3, 4–6, 6–1
	1987	Boris Becker Slobodan Živojinović	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	3–6, 6–3, 6–4
	1988	Boris Becker Eric Jelen	Miloslav Mečíř Tomáš Šmíd	6–3, 6–3
	1989	Jakob Hlasek John McEnroe	Balázs Taróczy Heinz Günthardt	6–3, 6–4
	1990	Omar Camporese Diego Nargiso	Tom Nijssen Udo Riglewski	6–4, 6–4
	1991	Omar Camporese Goran Ivanišević	Tom Nijssen Cyril Suk	6–4, 7–6
	1992	Neil Broad David Macpherson	Sergio Casal Emilio Sánchez	5–7, 7–5, 6–4
	1993	Mark Kratzmann Wally Masur	Tom Nijssen Cyril Suk	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
	1994	Tom Nijssen Cyril Suk	Hendrik Jan Davids Piet Norval	4–6, 7–6, 7–6
	1995	Boris Becker Guy Forget	Petr Korda Karel Nováček	6–2, 6–4
	1996	Andrea Gaudenzi Goran Ivanišević	Guy Forget Jakob Hlasek	6–4, 7–5
	1997	Pablo Albano Peter Nyborg	David Adams Andrei Olhovskiy	6–4, 7–6
London	1998	Martin Damm Jim Grabb	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Daniel Vacek	6–4, 7–5
	1999	Tim Henman Greg Rusedski	Byron Black Wayne Ferreira	6–3, 7–6(8–6)
	2000	David Adams John-Laffnie de Jager	Jan-Michael Gambill Scott Humphries	6–3, 6–7(7–9), 7–6(13–11)
Milan	2001	Paul Haarhuis Sjeng Schalken	Johan Landsberg Tom Vanhoudt	7–6(7–5), 7–6(7–4)
	2002	Karsten Braasch Andrei Olhovskiy	Julien Boutter Max Mirnyi	3–6, 7–6(7–5), [12–10]
	2003	Petr Luxa Radek Štěpánek	Tomáš Cibulec Pavel Vízner	6–4, 7–6(7–4)
	2004	Jared Palmer Pavel Vízner	Daniele Bracciali Giorgio Galimberti	6–4, 6–4
	2005	Daniele Bracciali Giorgio Galimberti	Arnaud Clément Jean-François Bachelot	6–7(8–10), 7–6(8–6), 6–4

Women

Singles

Location	Year	Champion	Runner-up	Score
Milan	1991	Monica Seles	Martina Navratilova	6–3, 3–6, 6–4

Doubles

Location	Year	Champion	Runners-up	Score
Milan	1991	Sandy Collins Lori McNeil	Sabine Appelmans Raffaella Reggi	7–6(7–0), 6–3

See also

• Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo

References