1989 Australian Indoor Championships

The 1989 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 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix

1989 Nabisco Grand Prix

The 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix was the only tennis circuit for male players held that year. It incorporated the four grand slam tournaments, one World Championship Tennis tournament and the Grand Prix tournaments.-Schedule:...

. The tournament ran from 9 through 16 October 1989.

Men's Singles

Ivan Lendl
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...

defeated

Lars-Anders Wahlgren 6–2, 6–2, 6–1

It was Lendl's 9th title of the year and the 88th of his career.

Men's Doubles

David Pate
David Pate
David Pate is a former professional tennis player from the United States who won two singles titles and eighteen doubles titles during his career. He reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 18 on June 8, 1987 and a career-high doubles ranking of No...

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Scott Warner defeated

Darren Cahill

Darren Cahill is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Australia.Nicknamed "Killer", Cahill turned professional in 1984...

Mark Kratzmann

Mark Edward Kratzmann is a former Australian professional tennis player.As the world's #1 ranked junior player in 1984, he won the Boys Australian, the Boys Wimbeldon and the Boys US Open...

6–3, 6–7, 7–5

It was Pate's 2nd title of the year and the 11th of his career. It was Warner's only title of the year and the 1st of his career.

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