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1997 Qatar Open – Singles

tennis tournament event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2022
Entity authorityQ519914 ↗
Source-derived summary

Petr Korda was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Sergi Bruguera.

Jim Courier won in the final 7–5, 6–7(5–7), 6–2 against Tim Henman.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 26-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 value is orientation rather than verdict, with Qatar, Singles and tennis providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1997 Qatar Open – Singles”, the useful work is to connect “tennis tournament event” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jun 12, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q519914. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1997 Qatar Open – Singles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1997 Qatar Open – Singles primary sources, 1997 Qatar Open – Singles archive and Qatar research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “1997 Qatar 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.