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1979 Swiss Indoors

tennis tournament edition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 29, 2023
Entity authorityQ3703662 ↗
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The 1979 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland that was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from 15 October through 21 October 1979. Third-seeded Brian Gottfried won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

Brian Gottfried defeated Johan Kriek 7–5, 6–1, 4–6, 6–3

It was Gottfried's 2nd singles title of the year and the 17th of his career.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Swiss, Indoors and tennis is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1979 Swiss Indoors” 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.