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1988 Seoul Open – Singles

1988 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ4584687 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jim Grabb was the defending champion, but lost in the first round this year.

Dan Goldie won the tournament, beating Andrew Castle in the final, 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–0.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 28-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 Seoul, Singles and tennis.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“1988 Seoul Open – Singles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Seoul, Singles and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4584687. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1988 Seoul Open – Singles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1988 Seoul Open – Singles primary sources, 1988 Seoul Open – Singles archive and Seoul 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 “1988 Seoul Open – Singles”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from “1988 Seoul 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.