# 1981 WCT Tournament of Champions > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/1981_WCT_Tournament_of_Champions > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/1981_WCT_Tournament_of_Champions.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_WCT_Tournament_of_Champions > Source revision: 1172292663 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Tennis tournament 1981 WCT Tournament of Champions Date May 4–10 Edition 5th Category Grand Prix (WCT) Draw 64S / 32D Prize money $592,000 Surface Clay / outdoor Location Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States Venue West Side Tennis Club Champions Singles Eddie Dibbs[1] Doubles Peter Fleming / John McEnroe[2] ← 1980 · WCT Tournament of Champions · 1982 → The **1981 WCT Tournament of Champions** was a men's [tennis](/source/Tennis) tournament played on outdoor [clay courts](/source/Clay_court) at the [West Side Tennis Club](/source/West_Side_Tennis_Club) in [Forest Hills](/source/Forest_Hills%2C_Queens), [Queens](/source/Queens), [New York City](/source/New_York_City) in the United States and part of the [1981 Grand Prix circuit](/source/1981_Grand_Prix_(tennis)). It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from May 4 through May 10, 1981. The event was open to players who had won a tournament worth at least $25,000 during the previous 12 months. Tenth-seeded [Eddie Dibbs](/source/Eddie_Dibbs) won the singles title and the accompanying first prize of $100,000 plus $3,050 in bonus money.[3][4] ## Finals ### Singles [Eddie Dibbs](/source/Eddie_Dibbs) defeated [Carlos Kirmayr](/source/Carlos_Kirmayr) 6–3, 6–2 - It was Dibbs' 1st singles title of the year and the 21st of his career. ### Doubles [Peter Fleming](/source/Peter_Fleming_(tennis)) / [John McEnroe](/source/John_McEnroe) defeated [John Fitzgerald](/source/John_Fitzgerald_(tennis)) / [Andy Kohlberg](/source/Andy_Kohlberg) 6–4, 6–4 ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-ms_1-0)** ["1981 Forest Hills WCT – Singles draw"](https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/forest-hills/415/1981/draws?matchtype=singles). Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-md_2-0)** ["1981 Forest Hills WCT – Doubles draw"](https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/forest-hills/415/1981/draws?matchType=doubles). Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-wot1982_3-0)** [John Barrett](/source/John_Barrett_(tennis)), ed. (1982). [*Slazengers World of Tennis 1982 : the official yearbook of the International Tennis Federation*](https://archive.org/details/isbn_0356085961/page/183) (14th ed.). London: Queen Anne Press. p. [183](https://archive.org/details/isbn_0356085961/page/183). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780356085968](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780356085968). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** William N. Wallace (May 11, 1981). ["Dibbs Triumphs In Final"](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/11/sports/dibbs-triumphs-in-final.html). *The New York Times*. ## External links - [ITF tournament edition details](https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/toc-forest-hills/usa/1981/m-gp-usa-16a-1981/draws-and-results/) v t e WCT Tournament of Champions 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 v t e 1981 Grand Prix Tour « 1980 1982 » Grand Slam tournaments Australian Open French Open Wimbledon US Open Grand Prix circuit Super Series Monterrey WCT Philadelphia WCT Richmond WCT La Quinta Memphis Brussels Indoor WCT Rotterdam WCT Milan WCT Frankfurt WCT Houston WCT Monte Carlo Hamburg Rome Boston Washington North Conway Indianapolis Montreal Cincinnati San Francisco Barcelona Sydney Indoor Tokyo Indoor Stockholm Wembley Buenos Aires Johannesburg Outdoor Regular Series Auckland Adelaide San Juan Vina del Mar Mar del Plata Mexico City Denver Salisbury WCT Tampa Cairo Nancy Napa Stuttgart Indoor Linz Johannesburg Indoor Nice Los Angeles Bournemouth Las Vegas Dallas WCT Forest Hills WCT Florence Munich Brussels Outdoor London/Queen's Bristol Venice Gstaad Newport Kitzbuhel Stuttgart Outdoor Båstad Hilversum South Orange Columbus Stowe Cleveland Palermo Geneva Bordeaux Madrid Manila Maui Brisbane Outdoor Tel Aviv Basel Tokyo Outdoor Melbourne Indoor Vienna Indoor Paris Cologne Hong Kong Quito Taipei Bangkok Bologna Santiago Manila Sydney Outdoor Sofia Team events Davis Cup (World Group) World Team Cup Masters Doubles WCT, London Pepsi Grand Slam, Boca Raton Sawgrass Doubles Volvo Masters, New York --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [1981 WCT Tournament of Champions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_WCT_Tournament_of_Champions) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_WCT_Tournament_of_Champions?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.