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BRD Arad Challenger

tennis tournament held in Arad, Romania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3621221 ↗
Source-derived summary

The BRD Arad Challenger was a tennis tournament held in Arad, Romania from 2010 until 2014. After a successful first edition in 2010, the tournament was not held in 2011 due to lack of sponsors. In early 2012 it was announced that BRD – Groupe Société Générale will sponsor the tournament and thus the event was renamed to include the sponsor name.

The event was part of the ATP Challenger Tour and was played on outdoor clay courts.

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The public source identifies “BRD Arad Challenger” as tennis tournament held in Arad, Romania. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arad, Challenger and tennis.

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—2010, 2014, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arad, Challenger and tennis providing the first useful test.
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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 Jan 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3621221. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2014, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “BRD Arad Challenger” 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.