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The 1998 Copenhagen Open was a 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...

tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

that was part of the International Series

ATP International Series

The International Series was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally as part of the ATP Tour until 2008....

of the 1998 ATP Tour

1998 ATP Tour

The ATP Tour is the elite tour for professional tennis organized by the ATP. The ATP Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP World Tour Finals, the ATP Super 9, the International Series Gold and the International Series Tournaments tournaments....

. The tournament was held from March 9 through March 15, 1998.

Men's Singles

Magnus Gustafsson
Magnus Gustafsson
Magnus Nils Gustafsson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.Gustafsson won 14 top-level singles titles during his career, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 10 in 1991. He was also part of the Swedish team which won the Davis Cup in 1998...

defeated

David Prinosil

David Prinosil is a former tennis player from Germany, who turned professional in 1991. He represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Daniel Vacek of the Czech Republic...

3–6, 6–1, 6–1

It was Gustafsson's 1st title of the year and the 11th of his career.

Men's Doubles

Tom Kempers
Tom Kempers
Tom Kempers , is a former Dutch tennis player.Kempers won 4 doubles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest doubles ATP ranking on August 10, 1998, when he became the number 42 in the world, though he never won a singles title in his career. He participated ones...

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Menno Oosting
Menno Oosting
Menno Oosting was a professional tennis player from the Netherlands, who won seven ATP Tour doubles titles and reached 11 finals in his career....

defeated

Brett Steven

Brett Andrew Steven is a tennis player from New Zealand.Steven turned professional in 1988 and won his first tour doubles title in 1991 at Newport, Rhode Island....

Jan Siemerink

Johannes Martinus Siemerink is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands.-Career:...

6–4, 7–6

It was Kempers' 1st title of the year and the 3rd of his career. It was Oosting's only title of the year and the 7th of his career.

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