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1938 Singapore Open

badminton championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ65922100 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1938 Singapore Open, also known as the 1938 Singapore Badminton Championships, took place from 13 August – 3 December 1938 at the Clerical Union Hall in Balestier, Singapore. The ties were played over a few months with the first round ties being played on the 13th of August and the last (women's singles final) was played on the 3rd of December. There were no women's doubles and mixed doubles competition due to the lack of entries.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1938 Singapore Open” as badminton championships. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1938—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Singapore, badminton and championships can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as badminton championships. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1938 Singapore Open” 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.