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David Goffin

Belgian tennis player (born 1990)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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David Goffin is a Belgian professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 7, making him the highest-ranked Belgian male player in tennis history and also the first and only Belgian man to be ranked in the Top 10.

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“David Goffin” enters the record as belgian tennis player (born 1990). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what David, Goffin and Belgian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“David Goffin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, David, Goffin and Belgian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “David Goffin” 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.