1977 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships

1977 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships
Date 17 – 23 October
Edition 5th
Category Grand Prix circuit (Four star)
Draw 32S / 16D
Prize money $50,000
Surface Hard / indoor
Location Sydney, Australia
Venue Hordern Pavilion
Champions
Singles
United States Jimmy Connors [1]
Doubles
Australia John Newcombe / Australia Tony Roche [2]

The 1977 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney in Australia and was part of the 1977 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. The tournament was held from 17 October through 23 October 1977. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title.[3]

Finals

Singles

United States Jimmy Connors defeated Australia Ken Rosewall 7–5, 6–4, 6–2

  • It was Connors' 6th title of the year and the 72nd of his career.

Doubles

Australia John Newcombe / Australia Tony Roche defeated Australia Ross Case / Australia Geoff Masters 6–7, 6–3, 6–1

  • It was Newcombe's only title of the year and the 64th of his career. It was Roche's 2nd title of the year and the 25th of his career.

Reference

  1. ↑ "1977 Sydney Indoor Men's Singles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  2. ↑ "1977 Sydney Indoor Men's Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  3. ↑ John Barrett, ed. (1978). World of Tennis 1978 : a BP yearbook. London: Macdonald and Janes. pp. 106–107. ISBN 9780354090391.
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