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1986 Transamerica Open – Singles

1986 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2022
Entity authorityQ3888568 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stefan Edberg was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to John McEnroe.

McEnroe won the title by defeating Jimmy Connors 7–6(8–6), 6–3 in the final.

Editorial summary

“1986 Transamerica Open – Singles” enters the record as 1986 tennis event results. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Transamerica, Singles and tennis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 27-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Transamerica, Singles and tennis.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“1986 Transamerica Open – Singles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Transamerica, Singles and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Dec 28, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q3888568. 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

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

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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This entry incorporates text from “1986 Transamerica 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.