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1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles

1988 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ3875657 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guy Forget and Yannick Noah were the defending champions but only Forget competed that year with Boris Becker.

Becker and Forget won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Jorge Lozano and Todd Witsken.

Seeds

The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.

Editorial summary

“1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles” enters the record as 1988 tennis event results. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Newsweek, Champions and Doubles can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 45-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 Newsweek, Champions and Doubles.
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Why this record matters

“1988 Newsweek Champions Cup – Doubles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Newsweek, Champions and Doubles 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 Jan 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3875657. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “1988 Newsweek Champions 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.