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Israel Matos Gil

Spanish tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ107709545 ↗
Source-derived summary

Israel Matos Gil (born 14 December 1982) is a Spanish former professional tennis player.

Matos Gil, who had a best world ranking of 465, made two ATP Tour main draw appearances at the Valencia Open, including in 2004 when he was beaten in the first round by world number three Juan Carlos Ferrero.

Editorial summary

“Israel Matos Gil” enters the record as spanish tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Israel, Matos and Spanish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1982, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Israel, Matos and Spanish.
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Why this record matters

“Israel Matos Gil” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Israel, Matos and Spanish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 May 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q107709545. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 2004.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Israel Matos Gil”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Israel Matos Gil primary sources, Israel Matos Gil archive and Israel research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Israel Matos Gil” 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.