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Juan-Francisco Spina

Argentine tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ99942052 ↗
Source-derived summary

Juan-Francisco Spina (born 8 May 1985) is an Argentine former professional tennis player.

Known as "Pancho", Spina comes from the city of La Plata and had a best singles world ranking of 738. His only ATP Tour main draw appearance came in doubles at the 2009 Indianapolis Championships with Marcos Baghdatis, whom he would coach on tour for several years. He won three ITF Futures doubles titles during his career.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Juan-Francisco Spina” is argentine tennis player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Juan-Francisco, Spina and Argentine, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-05-08. For this dossier, Juan-Francisco, Spina and Argentine is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q99942052. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Juan-Francisco Spina” 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.