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Bobby Webb (tennis)

American tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ110660161 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bobby Webb (born 1953) is an American former professional tennis player.

A native of Atlanta, Webb played collegiate tennis for Georgia Tech, before leaving in 1973 to pursue a career on the professional tour. He achieved a ranking inside the world's top 200 and featured in qualifying for Wimbledon.

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“Bobby Webb (tennis)” enters the record as american tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bobby, Webb and tennis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bobby, Webb and tennis.
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“Bobby Webb (tennis)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bobby, Webb and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q110660161. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bobby Webb (tennis)” 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.