CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships

tennis tournament

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3705174 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida in the United States, and was part of the International Series of the 2003 ATP Tour. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from March 3 through March 9, 2003. Fourth-seeded Jan-Michael Gambill won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

Jan-Michael Gambill defeated Mardy Fish 6–0, 7–6(7–5)

It was Gambill's 1st singles title of the year and the 3rd and last of his career.

Doubles

Leander Paes / Nenad Zimonjić defeated Raemon Sluiter / Martin Verkerk 7–5, 3–6, 7–5

It was Paes's 2nd title of the year and the 28th of his career. It was Zimonjić's 1st title of the year and the 6th of his career.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships” as tennis tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Delray, Beach and International.

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—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Delray, Beach and International providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships”, the useful work is to connect “tennis tournament” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3705174. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships primary sources, 2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships archive and Delray 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 “2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “2003 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships” 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.