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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Speedily delete all, as blatant hoaxes. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:11, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2013 ITF Tennis Open[edit]

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Quite simply, this seems to be an intricate hoax. The "2013 ITF Tennis Open" does not exist. None of the players who are supposed to have taken part in this tennis tournament have a record of having doing so in their ITF profiles. Even conducting a search for all tennis tournaments for the calendar year 2013 in Ukraine on the ITF website shows that there is one single tournament this year, a $75,000 event in Donetsk in the summer. When I first came across this article, I was going to request a speedy deletion as a blatant hoax, but maybe there is some sort of explanation for this from the author. Jared Preston (talk) 02:39, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of procedure, I am co-nominating:
which just shows the length of this hoax. All without a single source which could help verify that this tennis tournament might have taken place. Jared Preston (talk) 02:43, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: Ha ha, no comment necessary. "Held annually since 2013" says enough even if it weren't a hoax (but it seems that it is). MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: No evidence that this tournament exists. Asilv (talk) 09:40, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: Four qualifiers in the semifinal stage? Highly unlikely. That alone would have drawn some tennis gossip if true and also my attention to speedy nominate it myself. Lajbi Holla @ me • CP 09:48, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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