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1978 Nice International Open

tennis tournament edition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2022
Entity authorityQ3601926 ↗
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The 1978 Nice International Open, also known by its sponsored name Montano-Snauwaert International Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Nice Lawn Tennis Club in Nice, France, and was part of the 1978 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and was held from 17 April until 23 April 1978. First-seeded José Higueras won the title.

Finals

Singles

José Higueras defeated Yannick Noah 6–3, 6–4, 6–4

It was Higueras' 2nd singles title of the year and the 4th of his career.

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“1978 Nice International Open” enters the record as tennis tournament edition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nice, International and tennis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nice, International and tennis.
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“1978 Nice International Open” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nice, International and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “1978 Nice International Open” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.