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County Cavan Championships

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ121335693 ↗
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The County Cavan Championships was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1885 as the County Cavan Lawn Tennis Tournament. The tournament was organised by the County Cavan Lawn Tennis Club, and played at Cavan, Ireland. It was played annually until 1955.

History

The County Cavan Championships was a men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1885 as the County Cavan Lawn Tennis Tournament. It was held annually until at least the 1920s when it was renamed as the County Cavan Championships. The tournament was part of the pre-open era senior tennis circuit till at least the 1950s. The championships have however still survived today as a Tennis Ireland tournament where they are known as the Cavan Senior Open.

Venue

The tennis club was officially incorporated with a permanent home in Cavan Town in 1888. The clubs facilities today include five tennis courts (3 artificial grass courts, 2 hard rubber coated courts and 2 padel courts. All Courts are floodlit.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885, 1955, 1888—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where County, Cavan and Championships 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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This entry incorporates text from “County Cavan Championships” 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.