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2016 Hong Kong Tennis Open – Singles

2016 tennis event results

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ27150010 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jelena Janković was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals to Caroline Wozniacki.

Wozniacki went on to win the title, defeating Kristina Mladenovic in the final 6–1, 6–7(4–7), 6–2.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “2016 Hong Kong Tennis Open – Singles” as 2016 tennis event results. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hong, Kong and Tennis.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current 30-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 Hong, Kong 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 “2016 Hong Kong Tennis Open – Singles”, the useful work is to connect “2016 tennis event results” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27150010. 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.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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This entry incorporates text from “2016 Hong Kong Tennis 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.