Australian Indoor Tennis Championships information
Tennis tournament
Australian Indoor Tennis Championship
Defunct tennis tournament
Event name
Varied
Tour
Grand Prix circuit (1973–1989) ATP Tour (1990–94)
Founded
1973
Abolished
1994
Editions
22
Location
Sydney, Australia
Venue
Hordern Pavilion (1973–1982) Sydney Entertainment Centre[1] (1983–1994)
Surface
Hard / indoor
The Australian Indoor Tennis Championship,[2] also known as the Australian Indoor Championship,[3] the Australian Indoor Open[4] and the Sydney Indoor for short, was a professional men's tennis tournament was played in Sydney, Australia. The tournament was an initiative from John Newcombe and was part of an expanding Asian-Australian fall Grand Prix circuit. The event was played under various names as part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit from 1973 through 1989 and as part of the ATP Tour from 1990 through 1994. It was played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion on the Sydney Showground[5] through 1982 and at the Sydney Entertainment Centre beginning in 1983.[6] The tournament was cancelled in June 1994 on financial grounds with tournament director and co-founder Graham Lovett citing insufficient television coverage and the difficulty of signing top players as the main reasons.[7][8]
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^"Edberg continues victory roll". Spokane Chronicle. 14 October 1991. p. C5 – via Google News Archive.
^"McEnroe Wins in Sydney". news.google.com. Sarasota Herald-Tribune - 14 Oct 1981. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
^McManus, Jim (2010). History of Tournaments: Professional Tennis Winners and Runner-ups. Pont Vedra Beach: MAC and Company Publishing. p. 305. ISBN 9781450728331.
^"Shock axing of indoor event". The Age. 20 June 1995. p. 42 – via Newspapers.com.
^"Sydney suffers a body blow as Indoor scraped". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 June 1995. p. 57 – via Newspapers.com.
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