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1932 Wimbledon Championships

52nd staging of the Wimbledon Championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ404711 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1932 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 20 June until Saturday 2 July 1932. It was the 52nd staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1932. Ellsworth Vines and Helen Moody won the singles titles.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1932 Wimbledon Championships” is 52nd staging of the Wimbledon Championships. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wimbledon, Championships and 52nd, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wimbledon, Championships and 52nd is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “52nd staging of the Wimbledon Championships” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q404711. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “1932 Wimbledon Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.