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Ricardo Chile

Cuban tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ102346559
Source-derived summary

Ricardo Chile-Fonte (born 7 January 1982) is a Cuban former professional tennis player.

Debuting in 2000, Chile appeared in 17 ties for the Cuba Davis Cup team, winning 12 singles and 6 doubles rubbers for his country. His Davis Cup career included a five-set win over Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas.

Chile represented Cuba at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo and won two bronze medals at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, both in doubles events.

Editorial summary

“Ricardo Chile” enters the record as cuban tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ricardo, Chile and Cuban 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—1982, 2000, 2003, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-01-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ricardo, Chile and Cuban.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 24, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q102346559. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2000, 2003 and 2006.

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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  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from Ricardo Chile” 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.