1980 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships

The 1980 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

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in Australia

Australia

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and was part of the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix

1980 Volvo Grand Prix

The 1980 Volvo Grand Prix was a tennis circuit held that year. It incorporated the four grand slam tournaments, the Grand Prix tournaments.-Schedule:The table below shows the 1980 Volvo Grand Prix schedule ....

. The tournament began on 13 October 1980.

Men's Singles

John McEnroe
John McEnroe
John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won seven Grand Slam singles titles , nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title...

defeated

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...

6–3, 6–4

It was McEnroe's 13th title of the year and the 50th of his career.

Men's Doubles

Peter Fleming /

Tim Gullikson

Timothy Ernest "Tim" Gullikson was a tennis player and coach who was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin in the United States.In 1977, he won three tour singles titles and was named the ATP's Newcomer of the Year...

Johan Kriek

Johan Kriek is a South African American professional male tennis player and founder of the Global Water Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering clean water to the world's neediest communities. Kriek has won two Australian Opens and has reached the semi-finals at the French...

4–6, 6–1, 6–2

It was Fleming's 6th title of the year and the 30th of his career. It was McEnroe's 12th title of the year and the 49th of his career.

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