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Daphne van de Zande

Belgian tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ36489953 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daphne van de Zande (born 21 July 1974 in Vilvoorde) is a Belgian former tennis player.

She has career-high WTA rankings of 161 in singles, achieved on 22 June 1998, and 210 in doubles, reached on 5 October 1998. Van de Zande won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career.

She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 1997 Pattaya Open.

Van de Zande retired from professional tennis 2011.

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The public source identifies “Daphne van de Zande” as belgian tennis player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Daphne, Zande and Belgian.

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—1974, 1998, 1997, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-07-21. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Daphne, Zande and Belgian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q36489953. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1998, 1997 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Daphne van de Zande” 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.