1976 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships

The 1976 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships was a men's professional 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, Australia and was part of the 1976 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix

1976 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix

The 1976 Commercial Union Assurance 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 18 October 1976.

Men's singles

Geoff Masters
Geoff Masters
Geoff Masters is a former Australian tennis player.-Tennis tour career:In 1977 Masters and Ross Case won the doubles in Wimbledon.-Doubles titles :-Post-tennis playing career:...

defeated

James Delaney

James Delaney (tennis)

James Delaney , is a former professional tennis player from the United States. During his career he won 1 doubles titles....

4–6, 6–3, 7–6, 6–3

It was Masters' 3rd title of the year and the 12th of his career.

Men's doubles

Ismail El Shafei
Ismail El Shafei
Ismail El-Shafei was the Head of Egyptian Tennis Federation and Member of International Tennis Federation. El Shafei is the only Egyptian player to enter Top 40 in Grand Prix/ATP ranking history...

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Brian Fairlie
Brian Fairlie
Brian Fairlie, born 13 June 1948 in Christchurch, is a retired tennis player from New Zealand. During his career from 1968 to 1979 he won four titles in doubles, all with the Egyptian player Ismail El Shafei, and two singles titles...

defeated

Syd Ball

Syd Ball , is a former professional tennis player from Australia.Ball enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 7 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 14 times. Partnering Bob Giltinan, Ball finished runner-up at the 1974 Australian Open...

Kim Warwick

Kim Warwick is a former Australian professional male tennis player mostly known for his doubles titles with Mark Edmondson, and for reaching the final of the singles Australian Open in 1980...

[9–8]

It was El Shafei's only title of the year and the 5th of his career. It was Fairlie's 2nd title of the year and the 4th of his career.

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