1979 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships

The 1979 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships was a tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion

Hordern Pavilion

The Hordern Pavilion is a building located in Moore Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on the grounds of the old Sydney Showground. "The Hordern", as it is affectionally known by Sydneysiders, has been an architecturally and socially significant Sydney landmark since its construction in 1924...

in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

in Australia

Australia

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and was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix

1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix

The 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix was a tennis circuit held that year. It incorporated the four grand slam tournaments, the Grand Prix tournaments.-Schedule:...

. The tournament began on 15 October 1979.

Men's Singles

Vitas Gerulaitis
Vitas Gerulaitis
Vytautas Kevin Gerulaitis was a Lithuanian–American professional tennis player. He is known for winning the men's singles title at one of the two Australian Open tournaments held in 1977. Gerulaitis won the tournament held in December, while Roscoe Tanner won the earlier January tournament...

defeated

Guillermo Vilas

Guillermo Apolinario Vilas is a retired and former World No. 2 professional tennis player from Argentina. He was the second Latin-American to win a Grand Slam tournament.-Career:...

4–6, 6–3, 6–1, 7–6

It was Gerulaitis' 3rd title of the year and the 22nd of his career.

Men's Doubles

Rod Frawley
Rod Frawley
Rod Frawley is a former tennis player from Australia, who won one singles title and five doubles titles during his professional career...

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Francisco González defeated

Vijay Amritraj

Vijay Amritraj is a former Indian tennis player, sports commentator and actor.Amritraj was born in Chennai, India to Maggie Dhairyam and Robert Amritraj. He and his brothers, Anand Amritraj and Ashok Amritraj, were among the first Indians to play in top-flight international tour tennis...

Pat Du Pré by Default

It was Frawley's only title of the year and the 1st of his career. It was González's 2nd title of the year and the 2nd of his career.

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