Tennis-X Stat Freak: ATP Lyon, Tokyo

Posted on October 4, 2004

ATP LYON MULTIPLE WINNERS
All-time great Pete Sampras is the title leader at the Lyon event, which dates to 1987. Pistol Pete is also the only player to win back-to-back singles titles at the event:

3--Pete Sampras, USA (1993-91)
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2--Jakob Hlasek/Yevgeny Kafelnikov, SUI/RUS (1994-95)
2--Marc Rosset, SUI (1994,'90)


ATP TOKYO MULTIPLE WINNERS
Stefan Edberg edged Pete Sampras for the all-time title lead at Tokyo with four, with only one other player, Jim Courier, winning multiple singles titles. Among the doubles winners at Tokyo have been all-time greats Bhupathi-Paes, the Woodies, and American teams Flach-Seguso and Davis-Pate, but none were able to capture multiple titles:

4--Stefan Edberg, SWE (1987,'89-91)
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3--Pete Sampras, USA (1996,'94-93)
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2--Jim Courier, USA (1995,'92)
2--Martin Damm/Daniel Vacek, CZE (2002,'97)