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Cologne Grand Prix

men's tennis tournament held in Cologne, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3534675 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cologne Grand Prix was a men's tennis tournament held in Cologne, West Germany, between 1976 and 1986. Also known as the Cologne Indoor Open tournament was a part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit for male tennis players and was played on indoor carpet courts.

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“Cologne Grand Prix” enters the record as men's tennis tournament held in Cologne, Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cologne, Grand and Prix 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—1976, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cologne, Grand and Prix.
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“Cologne Grand Prix” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cologne, Grand and Prix provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3534675. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cologne Grand Prix” 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.