1998 Japan Open Tennis Championships
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The 1998 Japan Open Tennis Championships was a tennis
tournament played on outdoor hard courts
at the Ariake Coliseum
in Tokyo
in Japan
that was part of the International Series Gold
of the 1998 ATP Tour
and of Tier III of the 1998 WTA Tour
. The tournament was held from April 13 through April 19, 1998.
Andrei Pavel
defeated
Byron Black
6–3, 6–4
Ai Sugiyama
defeated
Corina Morariu
6–3, 6–3
Sébastien Lareau
/ Daniel Nestor
defeated
Olivier Delaître
/
Stefano Pescosolido
6–3, 6–4
Naoko Kijimuta
/ Nana Miyagi
defeated Amy Frazier
/ Rika Hiraki
6–3, 4–6, 6–4
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 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...
at the Ariake Coliseum
Ariake Coliseum
is an indoor sporting arena in located in Ariake, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It has a capacity of 10,000. The arena is used as the center court for the Japan Open Tennis Championships and the Toray Pan Pacific Open held in Ariake Tennis Forest Park....
in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
that was part of the International Series Gold
ATP International Series Gold
International Series Gold was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally that were part of the ATP Tour. International Series Gold offered players cash prizes and the ability to earn ATP ranking points...
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....
and of Tier III of the 1998 WTA Tour
1998 WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events...
. The tournament was held from April 13 through April 19, 1998.
Men's Singles
Andrei PavelAndrei Pavel
Andrei Pavel is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Romania. He is currently coaching former world No. 1 and the current world No. 15 of the WTA, Jelena Janković.-Career:...
defeated
Byron BlackByron Black
Byron Black is a former touring professional tennis and Davis Cup player for Zimbabwe.- Biography :He is the brother of Cara and Wayne Black, both professional tennis players...
6–3, 6–4
- It was Pavel's 1st title of the year and the 1st of his career.
Women's Singles
Ai SugiyamaAi Sugiyama
is a retired Japanese professional tennis player. She reached No. 1 in women's doubles on the WTA Tour. Her career-high singles ranking was No. 8, achieved on February 9, 2004. She turned professional in 1992...
defeated
Corina MorariuCorina Morariu
Corina Marie Morariu is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.Morariu turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the...
6–3, 6–3
- It was Sugiyama's 3rd title of the year and the 7th of her career.
Men's Doubles
Sébastien LareauSébastien Lareau
Sébastien Lareau is a former touring professional tennis player.-As a singles player:The right-handed Lareau achieved a career best singles ranking of World No. 76 in April 1995. In January 1999 he reached a career second best ranking of World No. 78. He had a career ATP tour event win-loss...
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Daniel NestorDaniel Nestor
Daniel Mark Nestor, CM , born Danijel Nestorović September 4, 1972, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is a Serbian-born Canadian professional tennis player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
defeated
Olivier DelaîtreOlivier Delaître
Olivier Delaître is a former tennis player from France. He won 15 doubles titles during a fourteen year career becoming the world's 3rd ranked doubles player on July 12, 1999....
/
Stefano PescosolidoStefano Pescosolido
Stefano Pescosolido is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1989.Pescosolido was born in Sora. He represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the first round by Brazil's Fernando Meligeni...
6–3, 6–4
- It was Lareau's 1st title of the year and the 6th of his career. It was Nestor's 1st title of the year and the 9th of his career.
Women's Doubles
Naoko KijimutaNaoko 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:...
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Nana MiyagiNana 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...
defeated
Amy FrazierAmy Frazier
Amy Frazier is a now inactive professional female tennis player from the United States.She debuted in 1987 and was active player until the 2006 US Open in which she made her 20th consecutive appearance...
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Rika HirakiRika Hiraki
Rika Hiraki is a former professional Japanese female tennis player.She has won 1 Grand Slam mixed doubles title, the 1997 French Open .-Doubles :*1991: Puerto Rico *1992: Tokyo [Japan Open]...
6–3, 4–6, 6–4
- It was Kijimuta's only title of the year and the 5th of her career. It was Miyagi's 2nd title of the year and the 9th of her career.