1981 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships

1981 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships
Date 12–18 October
Edition 9th
Draw 32S / 16D
Prize money $175,000
Surface Hard / indoor
Location Sydney, Australia
Venue Hordern Pavilion
Champions
Singles
United States John McEnroe [1]
Doubles
United States Peter Fleming / United States John McEnroe [2]

The 1981 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 1981 Volvo Grand Prix. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from 12 October through 18 October 1981. Top-seeded John McEnroe won his second successive singles title.[3][4]

Finals

Singles

United States John McEnroe defeated United States Roscoe Tanner 6–4, 7–5, 6–2

  • It was McEnroe's 17th title of the year and the 73rd of his career.

Doubles

United States Peter Fleming / United States John McEnroe defeated United States Sherwood Stewart / United States Ferdi Taygan 6–7, 7–6, 6–1

  • It was Fleming's 7th title of the year and the 39th of his career. It was McEnroe's 16th title of the year and the 72nd of his career.

References

  1. ↑ "1981 Sydney Indoor Men's Singles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  2. ↑ "1981 Sydney Indoor Men's Doubles draw". Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
  3. ↑ John Barrett, ed. (1982). Slazengers World of Tennis 1982 : The Official Yearbook of the International Tennis Federation (14th ed.). London: Queen Anne Press. pp. 108–109. ISBN 9780356085968.
  4. ↑ "McEnroe wins from Tanner". The New York Times. 19 October 1981.
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