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1995 Croatian Ladies Open

tennis tournament edition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ3353390 ↗
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The 1995 Croatian Ladies Open, also known as the Zagreb Open, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Športski Park Mladost in Zagreb in Croatia that was part of Tier III of the 1995 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 24 April through 30 April 1995. Fifth-seeded Sabine Appelmans won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

Sabine Appelmans defeated Silke Meier 6–4, 6–3

It was Appelmans' only singles title of the year and the 6th of her career.

Doubles

Mercedes Paz / Rene Simpson defeated Laura Golarsa / Irina Spîrlea 7–5, 6–2

It was Paz's only title of the year and the 25th of her career. It was Simpson's 2nd title of the year and the 3rd of her career.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1995 Croatian Ladies Open” as tennis tournament edition. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Croatian, Ladies and tennis can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as tennis tournament edition. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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