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1993 Volvo International – Doubles

1993 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ3602235 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1993 Volvo International was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut, United States and was part of the Championship Series of the 1993 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from August 16 through August 23, 1993. Kelly Jones and Rick Leach were the defending champions but only Jones competed that year with Paul Annacone. Annacone and Jones lost in the semifinals to Cyril Suk and Daniel Vacek. Suk and Vacek won in the final 7–5, 6–4 against Steve DeVries and David Macpherson.

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1993 Volvo International – Doubles” is 1993 tennis event results. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Volvo, International and Doubles, not as a finished interpretation.

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. For this dossier, Volvo, International and Doubles is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1993 tennis event results” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Feb 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3602235. 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 Volvo International – 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.