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- ↑ Nieuwland, Alex. "Tournament – Brookfield". www.tennisarchives.com. Tennis Archives. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
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- ↑ Baltzell, E. Digby (2013). Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar. Piscataway, New Jersey, United States: Transaction Publishers. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-4128-5180-0.
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