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1978 Paris Open – Singles

sport event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2023
Entity authorityQ3896008 ↗
Source-derived summary

Corrado Barazzutti was the defending champion but did not compete that year.

Robert Lutz won in the final 6–2, 6–2, 7–6 against Tom Gullikson.

Seeds

A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

Draw

Key

NB: The Final was the best of 5 sets while all other rounds were the best of 3 sets.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1978 Paris Open – Singles” as sport event. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 67-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Paris, Singles and sport can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as sport event. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3896008. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. 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

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1978 Paris Open – Singles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1978 Paris Open – Singles primary sources, 1978 Paris Open – Singles archive and Paris 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.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “1978 Paris Open – Singles”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “1978 Paris Open – Singles” 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.