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Chung Hee-sung

South Korean tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ114785231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chung Hee-sung (born 25 November 1976) is a South Korean former professional tennis player.

Chung, a graduate of Samil Technical High School in Suwon, began competing on the professional tour in the mid 1990s and reached a best singles world ranking of 680. He was a quarter-finalist at the ATP Challenger tournament in Seoul in 1995. From 2000 to 2003 he represented South Korea in the Davis Cup, featuring mostly in doubles. He won six ITF Futures doubles titles during his career. In 2018 he took over as captain of the South Korea Davis Cup team.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Chung Hee-sung” as south Korean tennis player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chung, Hee-sung and South.

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—1976, 1995, 2000, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-11-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chung, Hee-sung and South providing the first useful test.
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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 May 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q114785231. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1995, 2000 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chung Hee-sung” 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.