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1993 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Singles

1993 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ3614167 ↗
Source-derived summary

Martina Navratilova was the defending champion but lost in the finals to top seed Monica Seles 3–6, 6–2, 6–1.

Seeds

A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.

Draw

Key

Final

Section 1

Section 2

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1993 Virginia Slims of Chicago Draw

1993 Virginia Slims of Chicago Draw

No Lights Out For Martina

Slims Stage Set - Seles Vs.

Editorial summary

“1993 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Singles” enters the record as 1993 tennis event results. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Virginia, Slims and Chicago 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Virginia, Slims and Chicago.
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“1993 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Singles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Virginia, Slims and Chicago provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3614167. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “1993 Virginia Slims of Chicago – 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.