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1997 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles

1997 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3967584 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Andrei Olhovskiy were the defending champions but only Olhovskiy competed that year with Brett Steven.

Olhovskiy and Steven won in the final 6–4, 6–3 against David Prinosil and Daniel Vacek.

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Draw

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Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1997 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles” as 1997 tennis event results. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Petersburg, Doubles and tennis can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as 1997 tennis event results. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3967584. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1997 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1997 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles primary sources, 1997 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles archive and Petersburg 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

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “1997 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “1997 St. Petersburg Open – Doubles” 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.