1978 Swiss Indoors – Doubles

Doubles
Doubles
1978 Swiss Indoors
Champion	Wojciech Fibak ; John McEnroe
Runner-up	Bruce Manson ; Andrew Pattison
Score	7–6, 7–5
Draw	16
Seeds	4

The 1978 Swiss Indoors – Doubles was an event of the 1978 Swiss Indoors tennis tournament and was played on indoor hard courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, between 24 October and 29 October 1978. The draw consisted of 16 teams and four of them were seeded. Mark Cox and Buster Mottram were the defending Swiss Indoors doubles champions but did not participate in this edition. The first-seeded team of Wojciech Fibak and John McEnroe won the doubles title after a win in the final against unseeded pairing Bruce Manson and Andrew Pattison, 7–6, 7–5.^[1]^[2]

Seeds

Wojciech Fibak / John McEnroe (champions)
Ion Țiriac / Guillermo Vilas (semifinals)
Anand Amritraj / Raymond Moore (quarterfinals)
Colin Dowdeswell / Heinz Günthardt (semifinals)

Draw

Key

Q = Qualifier
WC = Wild card
LL = Lucky loser
Alt = Alternate
ITF = ITF entry
PR = Protected ranking
SR = Special ranking
SE = Special exempt
JE = Junior exempt
JR = Junior Accelerator Programme entrant
CO = College Accelerator Programme entrant
NG = Next Gen Accelerator Program entrant
w/o = Walkover
r = Retired
d = Defaulted

First Round					Quarterfinals				Semifinals					Final

1	Wojciech Fibak John McEnroe	6	6
	Rolf Gehring Ulrich Pinner	3	4		1	Wojciech Fibak John McEnroe	7	6
	Bernard Fritz Jan Norbäck	1	2			Vijay Amritraj Ashok Amritraj	6	4
	Vijay Amritraj Ashok Amritraj	6	6						1	Wojciech Fibak John McEnroe	6	4	6
	Victor Amaya Dick R. Bohrnstedt	6	3	7					4	Colin Dowdeswell Heinz Günthardt	4	6	4
	Jiří Hřebec Vladimír Zedník	2	6	6		Victor Amaya Dick R. Bohrnstedt	6	3
	Patrice Dominguez David Schneider	2	2		4	Colin Dowdeswell Heinz Günthardt	7	6
4	Colin Dowdeswell Heinz Günthardt	6	6											1	Wojciech Fibak John McEnroe	7	7
3	Anand Amritraj Raymond Moore	6	2	6											Bruce Manson Andrew Pattison	6	5
	Gianni Ocleppo Christophe Roger-Vasselin	3	6	4	3	Anand Amritraj Raymond Moore	5	6
	Bruce Manson Andrew Pattison	6	6	6		Bruce Manson Andrew Pattison	7	7
	John Lloyd David Lloyd	3	7	3						Bruce Manson Andrew Pattison	2	7	6
	Markus Günthardt Renato Schmitz	4	7	1					2	Ion Țiriac Guillermo Vilas	6	6	4
	Ismail El Shafei Trey Waltke	6	6	6		Ismail El Shafei Trey Waltke	2	6
	Ángel Giménez Fernando Soler	3	2		2	Ion Țiriac Guillermo Vilas	6	7
2	Ion Țiriac Guillermo Vilas	6	6

References

^ John Barrett, ed. (1979). World of Tennis 1979 : a BP yearbook. London: Macdonald and Jane's. pp. 26, 29, 126. ISBN 978-0354090681.
^ "1978 Basel – Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

External links

ITF tournament edition details

[wot1979-1] John Barrett, ed. (1979). World of Tennis 1979 : a BP yearbook. London: Macdonald and Jane's. pp. 26, 29, 126. ISBN 978-0354090681.

[md-2] "1978 Basel – Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

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