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Leaside Invitation

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ124362385 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Leaside Invitation was a men's and women's open international clay court tennis tournament was founded in 1954. The tournament was first played at the Leaside Tennis Club, Toronto, Canada. It was played annually till 1970.

History

In 1948 the Leaside Tennis Club was founded. In 1954 the club organised an open international tennis tournament called the Leaside Invitation. It was played annually till 1970.

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“Leaside Invitation” enters the record as tennis tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Leaside, Invitation and tennis 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—1954, 1970, 1948—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Leaside, Invitation and tennis.
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This entry incorporates text from “Leaside Invitation” 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.