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WTA Doubles Championships

women's tennis tournament

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ194537 ↗
Source-derived summary

The WTA Doubles Championships is a defunct WTA Tour affiliated tennis tournament for doubles, played from 1975 to 1997. It was held on indoor carpet courts from 1975 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1990, and on outdoor clay courts in 1982 and from 1991 to 1997.

Editorial summary

“WTA Doubles Championships” enters the record as women's tennis tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Doubles, Championships and women's 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—1975, 1997, 1981, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Doubles, Championships and women's.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“WTA Doubles Championships” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Doubles, Championships and women's provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q194537. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1997, 1981 and 1983.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “WTA Doubles Championships”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow WTA Doubles Championships primary sources, WTA Doubles Championships archive and Doubles research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “WTA Doubles 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.