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2017 Waco Showdown

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ42741854
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The 2017 Waco Showdown was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the third edition of the tournament and was part of the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Waco, United States, on 6–12 November 2017.

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of 30 October 2017.

Other entrants

The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:

Sanaz Marand

Maria Mateas

Maria Sanchez

Theresa van Zyl

The following player received entry using a protected ranking:

Jessica Pegula

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Victoria Duval

Ulrikke Eikeri

An-Sophie Mestach

Katerina Stewart

Champions

Singles

Taylor Townsend def. Ajla Tomljanović, 6–3, 2–6, 6–2

Doubles

Sofia Kenin / Anastasiya Komardina def.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2017 Waco Showdown” as tennis tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Waco, Showdown and tennis can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as tennis tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jan 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q42741854. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from 2017 Waco Showdown” 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.