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1997 Meta Styrian Open – Singles

tennis tournament event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ4017130 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barbara Paulus was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to María Sánchez Lorenzo.

Barbara Schett won in the final 3–6, 6–2, 6–3 against Henrieta Nagyová.

Seeds

A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.

Editorial summary

“1997 Meta Styrian Open – Singles” enters the record as tennis tournament event. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Meta, Styrian and Singles can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 49-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Meta, Styrian and Singles.
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Why this record matters

“1997 Meta Styrian Open – Singles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Meta, Styrian and Singles provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Mar 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4017130. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “1997 Meta Styrian 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.