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1997 Monte Carlo Open – Singles

tennis tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ1647291 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marcelo Ríos defeated Àlex Corretja in the final, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3 to win the singles tennis title at the 1997 Monte Carlo Open.

Thomas Muster was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the second round to Fabrice Santoro.

Seeds

The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1997 Monte Carlo Open – Singles” as tennis tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Monte, Carlo and Singles.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Monte, Carlo and Singles providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1647291. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “1997 Monte Carlo 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.