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Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ3876655 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship was a tennis tournament held intermittently in Winnetka, Illinois, USA from 1984 until 2019. The event was part of the ATP Challenger Tour and was played on outdoor hardcourts at the A. C. Nielsen Tennis Center, a facility owned and operated by the Winnetka Park District.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship” is tennis tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nielsen, Tennis and Championship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984. For this dossier, Nielsen, Tennis and Championship is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “tennis tournament” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 May 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3876655. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nielsen Pro Tennis Championship” 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.