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David Blair (tennis)

US professional tennis player, born 1971

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ110509242 ↗
Source-derived summary

David Blair (born June 29, 1971) is an American former professional tennis player.

Blair played collegiate tennis for the University of Florida and won the NCAA Division I doubles championship with Mark Merklein in 1993. The pair received a wildcard into the doubles main draw of the 1993 US Open, falling in the second round to Patrick McEnroe and Richey Reneberg.

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“David Blair (tennis)” enters the record as uS professional tennis player, born 1971. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what David, Blair and tennis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-06-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around David, Blair and tennis.
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“David Blair (tennis)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, David, Blair and tennis provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110509242. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1993.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “David Blair (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.