1984 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships

The 1984 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 Sydney Entertainment Centre

Sydney Entertainment Centre

The Sydney Entertainment Centre is a multi-purpose venue, located in Haymarket, Sydney, Australia. It opened in May 1983, to replace Sydney Stadium, which had been demolished to make way for a new railway. The centre is currently owned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, which administers...

in Sydney

Sydney

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in Australia

Australia

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and was part of the 1984 Volvo Grand Prix

1984 Volvo Grand Prix

The 1984 Volvo Grand Prix was a tennis circuit held that year. It incorporated the four grand slam tournaments, four World Championship Tennis tournaments and the Grand Prix tournaments.-Schedule:...

. The tournament ran from 8 through 15 October 1984.

Men's Singles

Anders Järryd
Anders Järryd
Anders Per Järryd is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. During his career he won eight Grand Slam doubles titles , reached the World No. 1 doubles ranking, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 5.Järryd was born in Lidköping, Västra Götaland...

defeated

Ivan Lendl

Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...

6–3, 6–2, 6–4

It was Järryd's 7th title of the year and the 20th of his career.

Men's Doubles

Hans Simonsson
Hans Simonsson
Hans Simonsson is a retired professional tennis player from Sweden. Primarily a doubles specialist, he won 12 ATP Tour titles in his career. He won the French Open doubles title in 1983 with his countryman Anders Järryd. He also played in the 1983 Davis Cup final for Sweden. He reached his...

defeated

Mark Edmondson

Mark Edmondson is a former professional Australian male tennis player....

Sherwood Stewart

Sherwood Stewart played amateur and professional tennis in the 1970s and 1980s. Stewart was ranked as high as No. 60 in the world in singles on the ATP Rankings on December 31, 1978, and No...

6–4, 6–4

It was Järryd's 6th title of the year and the 19th of his career. It was Simonsson's 2nd title of the year and the 11th of his career.

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