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1972 South Australian Tennis Championships

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3965495 ↗
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The 1972 South Australian Championships was a combined men's and women's Grand Prix tennis tournament held at the Memorial Drive in Adelaide, Australia and played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 75th edition of the tournament and was held from 17 January through 23 January 1972. First-seeded Alex Metreveli and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.

Finals

Men's singles

Alex Metreveli defeated Kim Warwick 6–3, 6–3, 7–6

It was Metreveli's 3rd title of the year, and the 5th of his career.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1972 South Australian Tennis Championships” is tennis tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through South, Australian and Tennis, 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—1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, South, Australian and Tennis is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1972 South Australian Tennis 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.