1996 Nokia Open - Women's Singles
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Linda Wild
Linda Wild
Linda Harvey Wild is a retired professional tennis player from the United States.Wild turned pro in 1989. In the first round of her first tournament as a pro, in February, 1990 in her hometown of Chicago, she defeated then fifth-ranked Arantxa Sanchez Vicario...

 was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn
Tamarine Tanasugarn is a professional Thai tennis player. She was born in Los Angeles, United States, and turned professional in 1994. She has been in the top 20 in both singles and doubles....

.

Shi-Ting Wang
Wang Shi-ting
Wang Shi-ting is a retired professional tennis player from Republic of China . Wang turned pro in 1991. During her career, she won 6 singles on the WTA Tour. She played 49 times over 11 years for the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team, earning a 51-25 overall record and setting many team records. She...

 won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Li-Ling Chen.

Seeds

A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.
  1.   Linda Wild
    Linda Wild
    Linda Harvey Wild is a retired professional tennis player from the United States.Wild turned pro in 1989. In the first round of her first tournament as a pro, in February, 1990 in her hometown of Chicago, she defeated then fifth-ranked Arantxa Sanchez Vicario...

     (Quarterfinals)
  2.   Yayuk Basuki
    Yayuk Basuki
    Yayuk Basuki is a professional tennis player from Indonesia. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia, having reached #19 in the Women's Tennis Association singles rankings in October 1997...

     (Quarterfinals)
  3.   Sandrine Testud
    Sandrine Testud
    Sandrine Testud is a former professional female tennis player from France.-Career:Testud broke into top 20 singles rankings in July 1997. On February 7, 1999, she became the fourth Frenchwoman after Françoise Durr, Mary Pierce and Nathalie Tauziat to break into singles top 10 rankings...

     (Semifinals)
  4.   Naoko Kijimuta
    Naoko Kijimuta
    Naoko Kijimuta is a Japanese tennis player, winner of 3 professional tournaments in doubles and a representative of Japan in the Federation Cup.-Career:...

     (Quarterfinals)



  1.   Shi-Ting Wang
    Wang Shi-ting
    Wang Shi-ting is a retired professional tennis player from Republic of China . Wang turned pro in 1991. During her career, she won 6 singles on the WTA Tour. She played 49 times over 11 years for the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team, earning a 51-25 overall record and setting many team records. She...

     (Champion)
  2.   Mana Endo
    Mana Endo
    is a retired Japanese professional tennis player who played on the WTA Tour from 1991 until 1998. She was born on February 6, 1971 in Hiroshima, Japan and resides in Fukuyama, Hiroshima.She started playing tennis at age 7 with her father and coach Hiroshi...

     (Quarterfinals)
  3.   Nana Miyagi
    Nana Miyagi
    Nana Smith Rogers, previously is a Japanese American tennis player, born in Seattle, Washington. She plays right-handed, and hits both forehand and backhand double-handed. She turned pro in March, 1988, and retired in 2006...

     (Second Round)
  4.   Francesca Lubiani
    Francesca Lubiani
    Francesca Lubiani is a professional tennis player from Italy. Her best score is three times quarter final of single at Cardiff , Oklahoma City and Istanbul .-Doubles 1 :-External links:...

     (Second Round)


Draw

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