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2001 Salem Open

tennis tournament edition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3786654 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2001 Salem Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Hong Kong and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour. The tournament ran from September 24 through September 30, 2001. Eighth-seeded Marcelo Ríos won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

Marcelo Ríos defeated Rainer Schüttler 7–6(7–3), 6–2

It was Ríos' 2nd title of the year and the 19th of his career.

Doubles

Karsten Braasch / André Sá defeated Petr Luxa / Radek Štěpánek 6–0, 7–5

It was Braasch's 2nd title of the year and the 3rd of his career. It was Sá's only title of the year and the 1st of his career.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2001 Salem Open” as tennis tournament edition. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Salem, tennis and tournament can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as tennis tournament edition. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3786654. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “2001 Salem Open” 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.