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1985 Bordeaux Open – Doubles

1985 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ3601437 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pavel Složil and Blaine Willenborg were the defending champions, but Složil chose to compete at Geneva during the same week, losing in the first round.

Willenborg teamed up with Libor Pimek and lost in the final to David Felgate and Steve Shaw. The score was 6–4, 5–7, 6–4.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1985 Bordeaux Open – Doubles” as 1985 tennis event results. 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 48-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 Bordeaux, Doubles and tennis can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as 1985 tennis event results. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3601437. 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

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  • Locating named record creators
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This entry incorporates text from “1985 Bordeaux Open – 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.