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Woodies' 1996 Wins
The Woodies have won a total of
12 titles in 1996. This is the most number of titles won by any team since
Peter Fleming and John McEnroe in 1979. A wonderful effort guys!!!
During the year, the Woodies have
won (in chronological order):
- The Australian Men's Hardcourt
Championships, defeating Bjorkman and Ho.
- The Comcast US Indoor, defeating
Black and Connell.
- The Newsweek Champions Cup, defeating
MacPhie and Tebbutt.
- The Lipton Championships, defeating
E. Ferreira and Galbraith.
- The Japan Open, defeating Knowles
and R. Leach.
- America's Red Clay Tennis Championship,
defeating Baron and Hansen-Dent.
- The Stella Artois Grass Court Championships
(Queen's), defeating Lareau and O'Brien.
- Wimbledon, defeating Black and
Connell.
- The Olympic Games, defeating Broad
and Henman.
- The US Open, defeating Eltingh
and Haarhuis.
- The Heineken Open, defeating Damm
and Olhovskiy.
- The ATP Tour World Doubles Championships,
defeating Lareau and O'Brien.

The World Doubles Championships
was the Woodies' 41st tournament win, bringing them one win closer to the
record of 57 titles, held jointly by Fleming and McEnroe, as well as Hewitt
and McMillan. Todd is on record as saying they can break that record in
2 years.
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