August 12, 1990: The day Stefan Edberg won Cincinnati to become world No 1

On this day, August 12 1990, Stefan Edberg outclassed defending champion Brad Gilbert in the Cincinnati final. The 6-1, 6-1 victory in under an hour made the Swede the world’s top-ranked player for the first time. Edberg, who had just claimed his second Wimbledon title earlier in the summer, had been chasing the top spot since he became world No 2 for the first time in 1987 – but Lendl had…

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