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1989 Czechoslovak Open – Singles

1989 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2023
Entity authorityQ3602009 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thomas Muster was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.

Marcelo Filippini won the title by defeating Horst Skoff 7–5, 7–6 in the final.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1989 Czechoslovak Open – Singles” as 1989 tennis event results. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Czechoslovak, Singles and tennis.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 26-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Czechoslovak, Singles and tennis providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1989 Czechoslovak Open – Singles”, the useful work is to connect “1989 tennis event results” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Apr 16, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3602009. 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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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1989 Czechoslovak Open – Singles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1989 Czechoslovak Open – Singles primary sources, 1989 Czechoslovak Open – Singles archive and Czechoslovak 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 “1989 Czechoslovak Open – Singles”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “1989 Czechoslovak 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.