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Janine Whyte

Australian tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2023
Entity authorityQ110392527 ↗
Source-derived summary

Janine Whyte is an Australian former professional tennis player.

Whyte won a girls' doubles title at the 1971 Australian Open (with Patricia Edwards). She twice played in the women's singles second round at the Australian Open, including in the 1972 tournament when she lost to Evonne Goolagong.

Editorial summary

“Janine Whyte” enters the record as australian tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Janine, Whyte and Australian 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—1971, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Janine, Whyte and Australian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 11, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q110392527. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1972.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Janine Whyte” 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.