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1983 Fischer-Grand Prix – Doubles

1983 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3746104 ↗
Source-derived summary

Henri Leconte and Pavel Složil were the defending champions but only Složil competed that year with Tomáš Šmíd.

Složil and Šmíd lost in the first round to Eric Fromm and Eric Korita.

Mel Purcell and Stan Smith won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Marcos Hocevar and Cássio Motta.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1983 Fischer-Grand Prix – Doubles” is 1983 tennis event results. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fischer-Grand, Prix and Doubles, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 49-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, Fischer-Grand, Prix and Doubles is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1983 tennis event results” 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

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3746104. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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This entry incorporates text from “1983 Fischer-Grand Prix – 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.