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1998 Sybase Open – Doubles

1998 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2023
Entity authorityQ3978999
Source-derived summary

The 1998 Sybase Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California in the United States and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1998 ATP Tour. It was the 109th edition of the tournament ran from February 9 through February 15, 1998.

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Editorial summary

“1998 Sybase Open – Doubles” enters the record as 1998 tennis event results. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sybase, Doubles and tennis 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 lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sybase, Doubles and tennis.
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Why this record matters

“1998 Sybase Open – Doubles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sybase, Doubles and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3978999. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from 1998 Sybase 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.