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Melanie Klaffner

Austrian tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ531929 ↗
Source-derived summary

Melanie Klaffner (German pronunciation: [ˈklafnɐ]; born 22 May 1990) is an Austrian former tennis player. On 27 January 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 175. On 25 May 2009, she peaked at No. 148 in the WTA doubles rankings.

Klaffner has won 15 singles and 26 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Playing for Austria Fed Cup team, Klaffner has a win–loss record of 23–20 as of 2024.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Melanie Klaffner” as austrian tennis player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2014, 2009, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-05-22. The account is most persuasive where Melanie, Klaffner and Austrian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as austrian tennis player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q531929. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2014, 2009 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Melanie Klaffner” 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.