| Doubles | |
|---|---|
| 1977 Custom Credit Australian Indoor Championships | |
| Champions |  |
| Runners-up | |
| Final score | 6–7, 6–3, 6–1 |
Ismail El Shafei and Brian Fairlie were the defending champions but only Fairlie competed that year with Russell Simpson.
Ismail El-Shafei is a former men's professional tennis player and President of the Egyptian Tennis Federation. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the International Tennis Federation and is Chairman of the ITF Juniors circuit. He won six career singles titles and reached 11 finals. In doubles he won 9 career titles.
Brian Fairlie, 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 ten singles titles in the Open era.
Russell Simpson is a right-handed former tennis player from New Zealand, who won six doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest singles ATP ranking on 18 April 1983, when he became No. 47 in the world. He is currently the head tennis professional at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club in Beverly Hills, California.
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Fairlie and Simpson lost in the first round to Mark Edmondson and John Marks.
Mark Edmondson is a retired Australian professional tennis player.
John M.P. Marks is a former professional tennis player from Australia.
John Newcombe and Tony Roche won in the final 6–7, 6–3, 6–1 against Ross Case and Geoff Masters.
John David Newcombe, AO, OBE is a former tennis player from Australia who is one of the few men to have attained a world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles. At the majors he won seven singles titles and a former record 17 men's doubles titles. He also contributed to five Davis Cup titles for Australia during an age when Davis Cup was deemed as significant as the majors. Tennis magazine rated him the 10th best male player of the period 1965–2005.
Anthony Dalton Roche, AO MBE is an Australian former professional tennis player, a native of Tarcutta. He played junior tennis in the New South Wales regional city of Wagga Wagga. He won one Grand Slam singles title and thirteen Grand Slam doubles titles, and was ranked as high as World No. 2 by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph in 1969. He also coached multi-Grand Slam winning World No. 1s Ivan Lendl, Patrick Rafter, Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt, and former World No. 4 Jelena Dokic.
Ross Case is an Australian former tennis player. His career-high singles ranking was world no. 14.
