Australian Indoor Tennis Championships

The Australian Indoor Tennis Championship,[2] also known as the Australian Indoor Championship,[3] the Australian Indoor Open[4] and the Sydney Indoor for short, was a professional men's tennis tournament was played in Sydney, Australia. The tournament was an initiative from John Newcombe and was part of an expanding Asian-Australian fall Grand Prix circuit. The event was played under various names as part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1973 through 1989 and as part of the ATP Tour from 1990 through 1994. It was played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion on the Sydney Showground[5] through 1982 and at the Sydney Entertainment Centre beginning in 1983.[6] The tournament was cancelled in June 1994 on financial grounds with tournament director and co-founder Graham Lovett citing insufficient television coverage and the difficulty of signing top players as the main reasons.[7][8]

Australian Indoor Tennis Championship
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name	Varied
Tour	Grand Prix circuit (1973–1989) ATP Tour (1990–94)
Founded	1973
Abolished	1994
Editions	22
Location	Sydney, Australia
Venue	Hordern Pavilion (1973–1982) Sydney Entertainment Centre[1] (1983–1994)
Surface	Hard / indoor

History

From 1975 to 1989 the event was sponsored by the Custom Credit and Swan Premium.[9]

Records

• Most singles titles: John McEnroe 4
• Most consecutive singles titles: John McEnroe 4 (1980–1983)
• Most singles finals: Ivan Lendl 5

Finals

Singles

Year	Tournament Name[10]	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1973	Australian Indoor Championships	Rod Laver	John Newcombe	3–6, 7–5, 6–3, 3–6, 6–4
1974	Australian Indoor	John Newcombe	Cliff Richey	6–4, 6–3, 6–4
1975	Custom Credit Indoor Tennis Tournament	Stan Smith	Robert Lutz	7–6, 6–2
1976	Custom Credit Indoors	Geoff Masters	James Delaney	4–6, 6–3, 7–6, 6–3
1977	Custom Credit Australian Indoors	Jimmy Connors	Ken Rosewall	7–5, 6–4, 6–2
1978	Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships	Jimmy Connors	Geoff Masters	6–0, 6–0, 6–4
1979	Custom Credit Australian Indoor	Vitas Gerulaitis	Guillermo Vilas	4–6, 6–3, 6–1, 7–6
1980[3]	Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships	John McEnroe	Vitas Gerulaitis	6–3, 6–4, 7–5
1981[3]	Custom Credit Australian Indoor	John McEnroe	Roscoe Tanner	6–4, 7–5, 6–2
1982[3]	Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships	John McEnroe	Gene Mayer	6–4, 6–1, 6–4
1983[3]	Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships	John McEnroe	Henri Leconte	6–1, 6–4, 7–5
1984	Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships	Anders Järryd	Ivan Lendl	6–3, 6–2, 6–4
1985[11]	Custom Credit Australian Indoor Tennis Championships	Ivan Lendl	Henri Leconte	6–4, 6–4, 7–6
1986	Swan Premium Open	Boris Becker	Ivan Lendl	3–6, 7–6, 6–2, 6–0
1987	Swan Premium Sydney Indoor	Ivan Lendl	Pat Cash	6–4, 6–2, 6–4
1988	Swan Premium Open	Slobodan Živojinović	Richard Matuszewski	7–6, 6–3, 6–4
1989	Australian Indoor Tennis Championships	Ivan Lendl	Lars-Anders Wahlgren	6–2, 6–2, 6–1
1990	Australian Indoor Tennis Championships	Boris Becker	Stefan Edberg	7–6, 6–4, 6–4
1991[12]	Australian Indoor Tennis Championships	Stefan Edberg	Brad Gilbert	6–2, 6–2, 6–2
1992	Australian Indoor Tennis Championships	Goran Ivanišević	Stefan Edberg	6–4, 6–2, 6–4
1993	Ansett Australian Indoor Tennis Championships	Jaime Yzaga	Petr Korda	6–4, 4–6, 7–6, 7–6
1994	Australian Indoor Tennis Championship	Richard Krajicek	Boris Becker	7–6^(7–5), 7–6^(9–7), 2–6, 6–3

Doubles

Year	Champions	Runners-up	Score
1973	Rod Laver John Newcombe	Mal Anderson Ken Rosewall	7–6, 6–2
1974	Ross Case Geoff Masters	John Newcombe Tony Roche	6–4, 6–4
1975	Brian Gottfried Raúl Ramírez	Ross Case Geoff Masters	6–4, 6–2
1976	Ismail El Shafei Brian Fairlie	Syd Ball Kim Warwick	4–6, 6–4, 7–6
1977	John Newcombe Tony Roche	Ross Case Geoff Masters	6–7, 6–3, 6–1
1978	John Newcombe Tony Roche	Mark Edmondson John Marks	6–4, 6–3
1979	Rod Frawley Francisco González	Vijay Amritraj Pat DuPré	W/O
1980	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Tim Gullikson Johan Kriek	4–6, 6–1, 6–2
1981	Peter Fleming John McEnroe	Sherwood Stewart Ferdi Taygan	6–7, 7–6, 6–1
1982	John McEnroe Peter Rennert	Steve Denton Mark Edmondson	6–3, 7–6
1983	Mark Edmondson Sherwood Stewart	John McEnroe Peter Rennert	6–2, 6–4
1984	Anders Järryd Hans Simonsson	Mark Edmondson Sherwood Stewart	6–4, 6–4
1985	John Fitzgerald Anders Järryd	Mark Edmondson Kim Warwick	6–3, 6–2
1986	Boris Becker John Fitzgerald	Peter McNamara Paul McNamee	6–4, 7–6
1987	Darren Cahill Mark Kratzmann	Boris Becker Robert Seguso	6–3, 6–2
1988	Darren Cahill John Fitzgerald	Marty Davis Brad Drewett	6–3, 6–2
1989	David Pate Scott Warner	Darren Cahill Mark Kratzmann	6–3, 6–7, 7–5
1990	Broderick Dyke Peter Lundgren	Stefan Edberg Ivan Lendl	6–2, 6–4
1991	Jim Grabb Richey Reneberg	Luke Jensen Laurie Warder	6–4, 6–4
1992	Patrick McEnroe Jonathan Stark	Jim Grabb Richey Reneberg	6–2, 6–3
1993	Patrick McEnroe Richey Reneberg	Alexander Mronz Lars Rehmann	6–3, 7–5
1994	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	Byron Black Jonathan Stark	6–4, 7–6

See also

• Sydney International

References

1. "Americans post wins in Aussie tourney". Gettysburg Times. Associated Press. 15 October 1985. p. 7 – via Google News Archive.
2. "Connors nips Newcombe to rich Aussie tournament". The Montreal Gazette. Reuters. 20 October 1978. p. 21 – via Google News Archive.
3. "McEnroe tops Leconte". Ocala Star-Banner. Associated Press. 17 October 1983. p. 8C – via Google News Archive.
4. "Edberg continues victory roll". Spokane Chronicle. 14 October 1991. p. C5 – via Google News Archive.
5. "McEnroe Wins in Sydney". news.google.com. Sarasota Herald-Tribune - 14 Oct 1981. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
6. McManus, Jim (2010). History of Tournaments: Professional Tennis Winners and Runner-ups. Pont Vedra Beach: MAC and Company Publishing. p. 305. ISBN 9781450728331.
7. "Shock axing of indoor event". The Age. 20 June 1995. p. 42 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Sydney suffers a body blow as Indoor scraped". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 June 1995. p. 57 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Aussie indoor lacks a sponsor". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 July 1989 – via Google News Archive.
10. Association of Tennis Professionals 1995 Player Guide, pages D16-D67
11. "Lendl breaks his drought". The Canberra Times. 60 (18, 283). 21 October 1985. p. 26 – via National Library of Australia.
12. "Edberg continues victory roll". Spokane Chronicle. 14 October 1991. p. C5 – via Google News Archive.

External links

• 1973 ATP calendar