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1976 US Open – Mixed doubles

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ3037639 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dick Stockton and Rosemary Casals were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Phil Dent and Billie Jean King.

Phil Dent and Billie Jean King recovered from 2 match points at 4-5, 15-40 in the final set and won 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the final against Frew McMillan and Betty Stöve. The winning team split $6,500.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1976 US Open – Mixed doubles” is tennis tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mixed, doubles and tennis, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 58-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mixed, doubles and tennis is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “tennis tournament” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3037639. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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 “1976 US Open – Mixed doubles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1976 US Open – Mixed doubles primary sources, 1976 US Open – Mixed doubles archive and Mixed 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 “1976 US Open – Mixed doubles” 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.