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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox tennis tournament<br />
| name = Central India Championships<br />
| type = defunct<br />
| founded = {{start date and age|df=yes|1912}}<br />
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| ended = {{end date and age|df=yes|1970}} <br />
| event name = Central India Lawn Tennis Championships <br />
| location = Indore (1912–1939), Allahabad (1943–70)<br />
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The '''Central India Championships'''<ref>{{cite news |title=Fomtana Bounced Again In India: Don Fontana of Toronto, Canadian Davis Cup player beaten in Quarter Finals of Central India Championships by Pakistan's Iftakhar Ahmed.|work=Lethbridge Herald |publisher=Newspaper Archives |date=6 January 1956 |location=Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |page=6}}</ref> or formally the '''Central India Lawn Tennis Championships''' was a combined men's and women's [[tennis]] tournament founded in 1912. The championships were first played at [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India. The championships ran until 1970 before it was discontinued as part of the worldwide tennis circuit.<br />
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==History==<br />
Tennis was introduced to India in the 1880s by British Army and Civilian Officers.<ref>All India Tennis Association</ref> In 1912 the Central India Lawn Tennis Championships,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reed |first1=Sir Stanley |title=Indian Year Book |date=1943 |publisher=Times of India Press |location=Bombay |page=931 |url= }}</ref> were established. The championships were staged until 1970 when they were discontinued as part of the worldwide tennis circuit.<br />
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Former winners on the men's singles title included; [[Ghaus Mohammed Khan]], [[Władysław Skonecki]], [[Ulf Schmidt]], [[Ramanathan Krishnan]], [[Roy Emerson]], [[Jaidip Mukerjea]], [[Ion Țiriac]] and [[Petre Mărmureanu]].<br />
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==Locations==<br />
The championships were staged at [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India from 1912 to 1942. They were staged at [[Allahabad]], Uttar Pradesh, India from 1943 to 1970.<br />
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