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1995 Oporto Cup – Singles

tennis tournament event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ3884212 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1995 Oporto Cup – Singles was an event of the 1995 Oporto Cup men's tennis tournament which was part of World Series of the 1995 ATP Tour and held from 12 June until 18 June 1995 in Porto, Portugal. The draw consisted of 32 players and eight of them were seeded.

First-seeded Alberto Berasategui won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 against eighth-seeded Carlos Costa.

Editorial summary

“1995 Oporto Cup – Singles” enters the record as tennis tournament event. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oporto, 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Oporto, Singles and tennis.
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Why this record matters

“1995 Oporto Cup – Singles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Oporto, Singles and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3884212. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “1995 Oporto Cup – 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.