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1983 Wightman Cup

international women's tennis competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ4581276 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1983 Wightman Cup was the 55th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States. It was held from November 1 through November 6, 1983.

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The public source identifies “1983 Wightman Cup” as international women's tennis competition. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wightman, international and women's.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wightman, international and women's providing the first useful test.
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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 Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4581276. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “1983 Wightman Cup” 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.