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2006 Dutch Open – Singles

2006 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2023
Entity authorityQ3716704
Source-derived summary

Fernando González was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.

Novak Djokovic won the tournament (his first career title), beating Nicolás Massú in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–4.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “2006 Dutch Open – Singles” as 2006 tennis event results. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dutch, Singles and tennis.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 29-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dutch, Singles and tennis providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “2006 Dutch Open – Singles”, the useful work is to connect “2006 tennis event results” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Apr 21, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3716704. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “2006 Dutch Open – Singles”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 2006 Dutch Open – Singles primary sources, 2006 Dutch Open – Singles archive and Dutch 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

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  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from 2006 Dutch Open – Singles” 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.