Champions' hall
Tournament
Essen WCT
Carpet · Main tour · 1 edition
Period1972ATP + WTA
Editions1with results
Matches30in the database
Champions1different players
Participants31different players
Record book
1972 · ATP and WTATitles
Longevity and dominance
Most wins
- 1 Nikola Pilic5 matches · 100% win rate5
- 2 Bob Lutz5 matches · 80% win rate4
- 3 Cliff Richey4 matches · 75% win rate3
- 4 Ismail El Shafei4 matches · 75% win rate3
- 5 Wilhelm Bungert3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 6 Arthur Ashe3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 7 Tom Okker3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 8 John Newcombe3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 9 Roy Emerson2 matches · 50% win rate1
- 10 Cliff Drysdale2 matches · 50% win rate1
Champion countries
Registered nationality of tournament championsHow the champions got there
Age, seeding and campaigns without dropping a setAge records
Champion generations
ATP · youngest Nikola Pilic33 years, 2 months1972
ATP · oldest Nikola Pilic33 years, 2 months1972
Seeds
Where the titles came from
Age is calculated at the start of the edition. A campaign without dropping a set is included only when every match played by the champion has identified sets; walkovers do not count as matches played.
Historic comebacks
Largest deficit overcome: 0–1 in setsComeback specialists
Most comebacks of this kind
Match archive
Most recent comebacks
Nikola Pilic defeated Bob Lutz
4-6 6-4 3-6 6-4 7-6Nikola Pilic defeated Cliff Richey
4-6 6-3 6-4Roy Emerson defeated Robert Maud
3-6 6-2 6-2Terry Addison defeated Roger Taylor
4-6 6-4 6-4Colin Dibley defeated Roy Barth
6-7 6-2 6-4Only completed matches are considered. A comeback from 0–2 requires a verified sequence of three won sets; retirements are not treated as complete comebacks.
Champions by edition
1972 · ATP and WTA1972ATP
Champion
Nikola PilicFinal: Nikola Pilic × Bob Lutz
4-6 6-4 3-6 6-4 7-6
October 29, 1972 · 30 matchesSee all results →