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2004 ATP Challenger Series

tennis tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3601593 ↗
Source-derived summary

The ATP Challenger Series is the second-tier tour for professional tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The 2004 calendar comprised 146 tournaments, with prize money ranging from $25,000 to $150,000.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “2004 ATP Challenger Series” as tennis tour. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Challenger, Series and tennis.

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—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Challenger, Series and tennis providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “2004 ATP Challenger Series”, the useful work is to connect “tennis tour” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3601593. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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.

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  2. Expand the search: follow 2004 ATP Challenger Series primary sources, 2004 ATP Challenger Series archive and Challenger 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “2004 ATP Challenger Series” 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.