User blog comment:Ryoung122/Article First Lines and Subjects/@comment-25898958-20160413234854/@comment-25898958-20160414182647

Whether Sharapova is banned or not doesn't change the fact that she is/was a tennis player. On the other hand, if someone is "unverified" then there is some doubt about the validity of the age claim... So it seems wrong in such a case to say "person X is a supercentenarian" when they might, in fact, not be.

It also just seems like a smoother-flowing way to introduce an article by using the format I suggested above. Ollie231213 (talk) 18:26, April 14, 2016 (UTC)