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Athens Open (WTA)

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ139591989 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Athens Open, sponsored by Vanda Pharmaceuticals, is a professional WTA 250 women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour, played on outdoor hardcourts at the Athens Olympic Tennis Centre in Athens, Greece. This event marked the end of a hiatus of over 35 years without WTA events in Greece and was the first one held in the city of Athens since 1990, when the Athens Trophy was last played. It replaced the Jiangxi Open on the WTA calendar.

Editorial summary

“Athens Open (WTA)” enters the record as tennis tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Athens, 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—1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2026. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Athens, tennis and tournament.
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Why this record matters

“Athens Open (WTA)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Athens, tennis and tournament provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q139591989. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Athens Open (WTA)” 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.