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Christine Neuman

American tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ96619734 ↗
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Christine Neuman (born July 14, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player.

Neuman, who was raised in Chicago, played college tennis for Duke University in the early 1990s, twice earning All-American honors.

Her best performance on the WTA Tour came in 1993 when she made the second round of the Puerto Rico Open, with a win over Sandra Cacic.

In 1996 she reached her career high singles ranking of 171 in the world and featured in the qualifying draws of all four grand slam tournaments that year.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Christine Neuman” as american tennis player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1993, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Christine, Neuman and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american tennis player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q96619734. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1993 and 1996.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Christine Neuman” 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.