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Stalybridge Open

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ123569621 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Stalybridge Open was a men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1968 as the Stalybridge International Tennis Tournament. In 1970 the tournament was branded as the En-Tout-Cas Trophy Stalybridge, (for sponsorship reasons) that year and was second leg of the En-Tout-Cas Circuit that year. The tournament was played at the Priory Tennis Club (f.1921), Stalybridge, Great Britain until 1971.

Finals

Men's singles

(incomplete roll)

Women's singles

(incomplete roll)

See also

Stalybridge Covered Courts (indoor tennis tournament) 1965–1967.

Dewar Cup Stalybridge (indoor tennis tournament) 1968–1971.

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“Stalybridge Open” enters the record as tennis tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stalybridge, tennis and tournament can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1970, 1921, 1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stalybridge, tennis and tournament.
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“Stalybridge Open” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stalybridge, tennis and tournament 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 Mar 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q123569621. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1970, 1921 and 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stalybridge Open” 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.