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Kristien Shaw

US American tennis player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ1565151 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kristien Shaw, also known as Kristien Shaw-Kemmer, Kristien Kemmer or Kristien Shaw-Ziska (born July 25, 1952) is an American former professional tennis player.

She had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 10 in 1977.

Career finals

Doubles (1 loss)

World Team Tennis

In 1974, Shaw was a member of the World Team Tennis champion Denver Racquets.

Editorial summary

“Kristien Shaw” enters the record as uS American tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kristien, Shaw and American 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—1952, 1977, 1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kristien, Shaw and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kristien Shaw” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kristien, Shaw and American 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 Sep 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1565151. The first chronological checks are 1952, 1977 and 1974.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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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 “Kristien Shaw” 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.