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Michaela Pochabová

Slovakian tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ13512763 ↗
Source-derived summary

Michaela Pochabová (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈmixaela ˈpɔxabɔʋaː]; born 17 October 1989) is a former professional Slovak tennis player.

On 7 June 2010, she reached her highest singles ranking of No. 236 by the WTA whilst her best doubles ranking is 265, achieved on 14 June 2010.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Michaela Pochabová” is slovakian tennis player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Michaela, Pochabová and Slovakian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1989, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-10-17. For this dossier, Michaela, Pochabová and Slovakian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “slovakian tennis player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Dec 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q13512763. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 2010.

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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This entry incorporates text from “Michaela Pochabová” 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.