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Tomáš Zíb

Czech tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ922313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tomáš Zíb (born 31 January 1976), is a retired male tennis player from the Czech Republic. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 51 in July 2005. Currently he is active conducting tennis lessons in Singapore.

Editorial summary

“Tomáš Zíb” enters the record as czech tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tomáš, Czech and tennis can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1976, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-01-31. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tomáš, Czech and tennis.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tomáš Zíb” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tomáš, Czech and tennis 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 May 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q922313. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 2005.

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.

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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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This entry incorporates text from “Tomáš Zíb” 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.