Champions' hall
Tournament
Palm Desert WCT
Hard · Main tour · 1 edition
Period1974ATP + WTA
Editions1with results
Matches31in the database
Champions1different players
Participants32different players
Record book
1974 · ATP and WTATitles
Longevity and dominance
Most wins
- 1 Rod Laver5 matches · 100% win rate5
- 2 Roscoe Tanner5 matches · 80% win rate4
- 3 Arthur Ashe4 matches · 75% win rate3
- 4 Eddie Dibbs4 matches · 75% win rate3
- 5 Dennis Ralston3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 6 Mark Cox3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 7 Jan Kodes3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 8 Harold Solomon3 matches · 66.7% win rate2
- 9 Ion Tiriac2 matches · 50% win rate1
- 10 Tom Edlefsen2 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 Rod Laver35 years, 7 months1974
ATP · oldest Rod Laver35 years, 7 months1974
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
Rod Laver defeated Arthur Ashe
6-7(6) 7-6(6) 6-2Arthur Ashe defeated Jan Kodes
3-6 6-3 6-4Arthur Ashe defeated Ove Bengtson
2-6 6-1 7-6Roscoe Tanner defeated Bjorn Borg
5-7 6-3 7-5Tito Vazquez defeated Antonio Zugarelli
6-7 6-0 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
1974 · ATP and WTA1974ATP
Champion
Rod LaverFinal: Rod Laver × Roscoe Tanner
6-4 6-2
March 31, 1974 · 31 matchesSee all results →