The 1996 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup were tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 tournaments played on outdoor hard courts

Hardcourt

Hardcourt or hard court describes a form of surface or floor on which a sport is played. It may refer to an indoor court made from a wood, or more specifically hardwood such as maple, as in basketball or indoor soccer. Alternatively, it may refer to outdoor materials such as asphalt, shale, or clay...

 that were part of the Mercedes Super 9

ATP World Tour Masters 1000

The ATP World Tour Masters 1000 is a series of nine tennis tournaments that are part of the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, held annually throughout the year in Europe, North America and Asia...

 of the 1996 ATP Tour

1996 ATP Tour

The Association of Tennis Professionals Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the ATP. The ATP Tour includes the Grand Slam tournaments , the ATP Super 9, the ATP Championship Series, the ATP World Series, the ATP World Team Cup, the Davis Cup , the ATP Tour World...

 and of Tier I

WTA Tier I tournaments

The WTA Tier I tournaments were Women's Tennis Association tennis elite tournaments held from 1988 until 2008 season. Minimum prize money, from 2004 is $1,340,000...

 of the 1996 WTA Tour

1996 WTA Tour

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. Both the men's and women's events took place at the Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California

Indian Wells, California

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 in the United States

United States

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 from March 8 through March 17, 1996.

The men's singles was headlined by ATP No. 1, Memphis, San Jose titlist and 1994 and 1995

1995 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup

The 1995 Newsweek Champions Cup and the State Farm Evert Cup were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 20th edition of the Indian Wells Masters and was part of the Super 9 of the 1995 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 1995 WTA Tour...

 winner Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras

Pete Sampras is a retired American tennis player and former world no. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time....

, Mexico City champion, 1995 French Open

1995 French Open

List of the 1995 French Open champions:-Men's Singles: Thomas Muster def. Michael Chang, 7–5, 6–2, 6–4*It was Muster's 6th title of the year, and his 29th overall. It was his 1st career Grand Slam title.-Women's Singles:...

 runner-up and Doha semifinalist Thomas Muster

Thomas Muster

Thomas Muster is a former world no. 1 tennis player from Austria. One of the world's leading clay court players in the 1990s, Muster won the 1995 French Open and at his peak was known as "The King of Clay." In addition, he won eight Masters 1000 series titles, placing him sixth on the all-time list...

 and San Jose runner-up, U.S. Open defending champion and 1990 Indian Wells

1990 Newsweek Champions Cup and the Virginia Slims of Indian Wells

The 1990 Newsweek Champions Cup and the Virginia Slims of Indian Wells Cup were tennis tournaments played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the tournament, and was part of the ATP Super 9 of the 1990 ATP Tour, and of the Tier II Series of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was held from March...

 winner Andre Agassi

Andre Agassi

Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...

. Other top seeds were Australian Open

1996 Australian Open

The 1996 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 84th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 15 through 28 January 1996.-Men's Singles:...

 and 1995 Tour Championships

1995 ATP Tour World Championships

The 1995 ATP Tour World Championships were tennis tournaments played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 26th edition of the year-end singles championships, the 22nd edition of the year-end doubles championships, and both were part of the 1995 ATP Tour...

 titlist Boris Becker

Boris Becker

Boris Franz Becker is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17...

, Michael Chang

Michael Chang

Michael Te-Pei Chang is a former American professional tennis player. He is best remembered for becoming the youngest-ever male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17....

, Goran Ivanišević

Goran Ivaniševic

Goran Ivanišević is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He is best remembered for being the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanišević is famous...

, Jim Courier

Jim Courier

James Spencer "Jim" Courier, Jr. is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. During his career, he won four Grand Slam singles titles, two at the French Open and two at the Australian Open...

 and Thomas Enqvist

Thomas Enqvist

Thomas Karl Johan Enqvist is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.He was quickly touted as the only Swede who could follow in the footsteps of Stefan Edberg and Björn Borg, and was ranked as high as No. 4 on the ATP Rankings.Enqvist was a force on the Swedish Davis Cup team...

.

Men's Singles

  Michael Chang

Michael Chang

Michael Te-Pei Chang is a former American professional tennis player. He is best remembered for becoming the youngest-ever male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17....

defeated   Paul Haarhuis

Paul Haarhuis

Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former World No. 1 doubles player. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.-Personal life:...

 7–5, 6–1, 6–1

• It was Chang's 1st title of the year and the 24th of his career. It was his 2nd win at the event, having also won in 1992.

Women's Singles

  Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...

defeated   Conchita Martínez

Conchita Martínez

Inmaculada Concepción Martínez Bernat is a former professional tennis player from Monzón, Aragón, Spain. She is the only Spanish woman to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, when she beat Martina Navrátilová in the 1994 Women's Singles. She also was the singles runner-up at the 1998...

 7–6, 7–6

• It was Graf's 1st title of the year and the 107th of her career. It was her 2nd win at the event, having also won in 1994.

Men's Doubles

  Todd Woodbridge

Todd Woodbridge

Todd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former tennis player. He was born in Sydney and turned professional in 1988. He is best known for his successful Doubles partnerships with Mark Woodforde and later Jonas Björkman...

/   Mark Woodforde

Mark Woodforde

Mark Woodforde is a former professional tennis player from Australia. He is best known as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge....

defeated   Brian MacPhie

Brian MacPhie

Brian MacPhie , is a former professional tennis player from the United States.MacPhie enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 7 doubles titles. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 22 in 2002.-Doubles titles :-Runner-ups :-External links:...

 /   Michael Tebbutt

Michael Tebbutt

Michael Tebbutt was an Australian tennis player.He was educated at St Johns Park High School and Northern Arizona University before starting his career as a professional tennis player....

 1–6, 6–2, 6–2

• It was Woodbridge's 3rd title of the year and the 43rd of his career. It was Woodforde's 4th title of the year and the 47th of his career.

Women's Doubles

  Chanda Rubin

Chanda Rubin

Chanda Rubin is an American tennis player. Winning seven WTA Tour singles titles, she reached her highest ranking World No. 6 on April 8, 1996, after reaching semifinals at the 1996 Australian Open. Rubin is also former World No...

/   Brenda Schultz-McCarthy

Brenda Schultz-McCarthy

Brenda Anne Marie Schultz-McCarthy is a Dutch tennis player. Primarily known for her maiden name Brenda Schultz, she married Sean McCarthy, a former American football player at University of Cincinnati, on 8 April 1995 and adopted his surname...

defeated   Julie Halard-Decugis

Julie Halard-Decugis

Julie Halard-Decugis is a former professional female tennis player.Halard-Decugis lived in La Baule, France during the initial stages of her career and later moved to Pully, Switzerland...

 /   Nathalie Tauziat

Nathalie Tauziat

Nathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....

6–1, 6–4

• It was Rubin's 3rd title of the year and the 6th of her career. It was Schultz-McCarthy's 3rd title of the year and the 12th of her career.

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