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1952 Australian Championships

1952 Australian Tennis Championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ952155 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1952 Australian Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on outdoor Grass courts at the Memorial Drive, Adelaide, Australia from 19 January to 28 January. It was the 40th edition of the Australian Championships (now known as the Australian Open), the 10th held in Adelaide, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The singles titles were won by Australians Ken McGregor and Thelma Coyne Long.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1952 Australian Championships” is 1952 Australian Tennis Championships. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Australian, Championships and Tennis, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Australian, Championships and Tennis is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1952 Australian Tennis 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.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q952155. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “1952 Australian 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.