Sources & Methodology

Last updated: August 2026

How we collect

Tênis do Brasil runs an automated pipeline monitoring official tournament, federation and athlete accounts, plus structured public data (scores and draws). Collection runs daily; the editorial pipeline publishes only what passes fact-check and legal gates.

We produce original editorial synthesis from official facts or public structured data, without reproducing third-party text.

Since 19 August 2026 we no longer collect score aggregators (e.g. TennisExplorer) or commercial news portals. Structured scores come from a commercially licensed API (BallDontLie when configured); WTA rankings from the official API; draws/calendars from Wikipedia/Wikidata; story seeds from official X and YouTube accounts via API/RSS.

Monitored sources (news)

Since 19 August 2026, official accounts and verifiable data only —not commercial news portals:

Brazilian

  • CBT, Rio Open, SP Open
  • João Fonseca, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Luisa Stefani — official athlete accounts

International

  • ATP Tour, WTA, Grand Slams, Davis Cup / BJK Cup — official accounts

Structured data (not portal text)

BallDontLie (licensed API), WTA (official rankings) andWikipedia/Wikidata may supply factual data only — scores, draws, rankings, dates — never article copy or athlete portrait photos. We never reproduce or rewrite copy from commercial portals such as TenisBrasil, ge.globo, Guardian, ESPN, Ubitennis, Tennis365 or Perfect Tennis.

Source history (until 19 August 2026)

Until 19 August 2026, news portals and the TennisExplorer aggregator could be used as a secondary source for fact-checking. Whenever that happened, the source was always credited at the foot of the article, with a link to the original. Since 19 August 2026 those sources are no longer collected.

Articles published before that date remain online, carrying the same credit they have always carried. We do not rewrite the archive's history — we would rather keep a record of where each story came from.

What we don't collect

Commercial news portals, tabloids, betting sites, unlicensed paywalls and disinformation accounts. Influencers appear only in never as primary sources.Junior coverage is suspended pending minor-protection review.

Editorial pipeline

  1. Selection → generation/translation → de-AI and deterministic gates
  2. 4 independent reviewers — quality, ethics, technical accuracy and legal gate (honor, image, minors)
  3. Publication only with unanimous approval; when in doubt, we do not publish

Images

Athlete and venue photos are individually approved for editorial use, with verified sources, authorship and licenses. Archive photos are dated and labeled; they do not necessarily depict the match in the story. Our artwork is labeled as editorial artwork. We do not use third-party or social media photos without applicable permission, or synthetic images as records of real matches. Editorial athlete photos do not imply product endorsement and are not used in advertising.

Full policy: Editorial Transparency.