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West Sussex Championships

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ131450943 ↗
Source-derived summary

The West Sussex Championships was a combined grass court tennis tournament founded in 1891 as a men's event called the West Sussex Challenge Cup. It was first played at the Priory LTC in Chichester, West Sussex England until 1912 then was discontinued. In 1922 the event was restarted and moved location to Bognor Regis, West Sussex where it was rebranded as the West Sussex Championships it continued to be held there with breaks until 1976.

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The public source identifies “West Sussex Championships” as tennis tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around West, Sussex and Championships.

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—1891, 1912, 1922, 1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with West, Sussex and Championships providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “West Sussex Championships”, the useful work is to connect “tennis tournament” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Dec 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q131450943. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1891, 1912, 1922 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “West Sussex 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.