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New York Tennis Club Open

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ118947249 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New York Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1886. Its first annual open tournament was held from September to October, 1886. It was played on dirt courts at 147th St. and Nicholas Ave. in Manhattan (Washington Heights section).

Their quarters were demolished to make way for new construction in 1898. The club's courts ceremoniously opened at 123rd St. and Nicholas Ave. in 1901. The tournament games were played at the Columbia Oval from 1912 to 1917.

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The public source identifies “New York Tennis Club Open” as tennis tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around York, Tennis and Club.

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—1886, 1898, 1901, 1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with York, Tennis and Club providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “New York Tennis Club 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.