Australian Indoor Tennis Championships

The Australian Indoor Tennis Championship, also known as the Australian Indoor Championship, the Australian Indoor Open 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 through 1982 and at the Sydney Entertainment Centre beginning in 1983. 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.

History

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

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

Doubles

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

See also

• Sydney International

External links

• 1973 ATP calendar