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TK Sparta Prague

Czech tennis club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ12058625 ↗
Source-derived summary

TK Sparta Prague (Czech: TK Sparta Praha) is a tennis club and training center located in Bubeneč, Prague, Czech Republic. Located near Stromovka on the left bank of the Vltava, it is one of the most prestigious tennis clubs in the country.

History

The club was founded in 1905. It houses 23 outdoor and 12 indoor courts. The club hosts the WTA Prague Open and the Sparta Prague Open Challenger.

The club was damaged during the 2002 and 2013 European floods.

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“TK Sparta Prague” enters the record as czech tennis club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sparta, Prague and Czech 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—1905, 2002, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sparta, Prague and Czech.
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“TK Sparta Prague” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sparta, Prague and Czech provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12058625. Authority coordinates are 50.111, 14.409. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1905, 2002 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “TK Sparta Prague” 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.