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2013 ASB Classic – Singles

2013 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ2023959 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zheng Jie was the defending champion, but she lost in the first round to Jamie Hampton.

Agnieszka Radwańska won the title, defeating Yanina Wickmayer in the final, 6–4, 6–4.

Editorial summary

“2013 ASB Classic – Singles” enters the record as 2013 tennis event results. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Classic, Singles and tennis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. 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 strongest next move is a source search built around Classic, Singles and tennis.
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Why this record matters

“2013 ASB Classic – Singles” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Classic, Singles and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Aug 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2023959. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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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  • Institutional context
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This entry incorporates text from “2013 ASB Classic – 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.