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2012 MercedesCup – Doubles

2012 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 31, 2023
Entity authorityQ3855045 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner were the defending champions but Melzer decided not to participate. Petzschner plays alongside Michael Kohlmann.

Jérémy Chardy and Łukasz Kubot won the title by beating Michal Mertiňák and André Sá 6–1, 6–3 in the final.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2012 MercedesCup – Doubles” is 2012 tennis event results. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through MercedesCup, Doubles and tennis, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, MercedesCup, Doubles and tennis is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2012 tennis event results” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 31, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3855045. 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

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Three-step research path

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  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 “2012 MercedesCup – 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.