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1977 Romika Cup – Doubles

1977 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ3631998 ↗
Source-derived summary

Juan Gisbert Sr. and Manuel Orantes were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.

František Pala and Balázs Taróczy won the title, defeating Nikola Špear and John Whitlinger 6–3, 6–4 in the final.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1977 Romika Cup – Doubles” as 1977 tennis event results. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Romika, Doubles and tennis.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 35-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Romika, Doubles and tennis providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1977 Romika Cup – Doubles”, the useful work is to connect “1977 tennis event results” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3631998. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “1977 Romika Cup – 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.