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1994 Canadian Open (tennis)

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3353953 ↗
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The 1994 Canadian Open and the 1994 Matinée Ltd. - Canadian Open were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 105th edition of the Canada Masters, and was part of the ATP Super 9 of the 1994 ATP Tour, and of the Tier I Series of the 1994 WTA Tour. The men's event took place at the National Tennis Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from July 25 through July 31, 1994, and the women's event at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from August 15 through August 21, 1994.

Finals

Men's singles

Andre Agassi defeated Jason Stoltenberg 6–4, 6–4

It was Agassi's 2nd title of the year, and his 21st overall. It was his 1st Masters title of the year and his 3rd overall. It was also his 2nd win in Canada after winning in 1992.

Women's singles

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated Steffi Graf 7–5, 1–6, 7–6(7–4)

It was Sánchez Vicario's 5th title of the year, and her 17th overall. It was her 1st Tier I title of the year and her 4th overall. It was also her 2nd win in Canada after winning in 1992.

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“1994 Canadian Open (tennis)” enters the record as tennis tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Canadian, tennis and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1994, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Canadian, tennis and tournament.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3353953. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “1994 Canadian Open (tennis)” 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.