1999 Newsweek Champions Cup and the Evert Cup
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The 1999 Newsweek Champions Cup and the Evert Cup were tennis
tournaments played on outdoor hard courts
. It was the 22nd edition of the Indian Wells Masters
and was part of the Super 9
of the 1999 ATP Tour
and of Tier I
of the 1999 WTA Tour
. Both the men's and women's tournaments took place at the Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California
in the United States
from March 5 through March 14, 1999.
s into the singles main draw: Alexandra Stevenson
Mary Joe Fernández
Olga Barabanschikova
Lilia Osterloh
The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw: Olga Barabanschikova
/
Magüi Serna
Steffi Graf
/
Anke Huber
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Alicia Molik
Brie Rippner Barbara Rittner
Tatiana Panova
Miho Saeki
María Sánchez Lorenzo
Andrea Glass
Jessica Steck
Kristie Boogert
/
Anne-Gaëlle Sidot
Mark Philippoussis
def. Carlos Moyá
5–7, 6–4, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Serena Williams
def. Steffi Graf
6–3, 3–6, 7–5
Wayne Black
/ Sandon Stolle
def.
Ellis Ferreira
/ Rick Leach
7–6 (7–4), 6–3
Martina Hingis
/
Anna Kournikova
def. Mary Joe Fernández
/
Jana Novotná
6–2, 6–2
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...
. It was the 22nd edition of the Indian Wells Masters
Indian Wells Masters
The Indian Wells Masters is an annual tennis tournament held in Indian Wells, California....
and was part of the 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 1999 ATP Tour
1999 ATP Tour
The Association of Tennis Professionals Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the ATP. The 1999 ATP Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the ATP Super 9, the ATP International Series Gold, the ATP International Series, the ATP World Team 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 1999 WTA Tour
1999 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...
. Both the men's and women's tournaments took place at the Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells, California
Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley , in between Palm Desert and La Quinta. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,958....
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
from March 5 through March 14, 1999.
Seeds
| Country | Player | Rank | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland |
Martina Hingis Martina Hingis Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles... |
1 | 1 |
| United States |
Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years... |
2 | 2 |
| United States |
Monica Seles Monica Seles Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007... |
3 | 3 |
| Czech Republic |
Jana Novotná Jana Novotná Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments... |
4 | 4 |
| Germany |
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... |
7 | 5 |
| France |
Mary Pierce Mary Pierce Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles... |
8 | 6 |
| South Africa |
Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004... |
9 | 7 |
| France |
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.... |
10 | 8 |
| Russia |
Anna Kournikova Anna Kournikova Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name... |
11 | 9 |
| Switzerland |
Patty Schnyder Patty Schnyder Patty Schnyder is a retired Swiss professional tennis player. She played on the WTA tour from 1993 to 2011 and is a former World No. 7. She defeated several World No... |
12 | 10 |
 Belgium |
Dominique Van Roost | 13 | 11 |
| France |
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... |
14 | 12 |
 Romania |
Irina Spîrlea Irina Spîrlea Irina Spîrlea is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world... |
16 | 13 |
| Spain |
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... |
17 | 14 |
 Belarus |
Natasha Zvereva Natasha Zvereva Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings... |
18 | 15 |
 Austria |
Barbara Schett Barbara Schett Barbara Schett Eagle is a former Austrian tennis player, who reached her highest singles ranking, World No. 7, on 13 September 1999. She ended her career at the 2005 Australian Open. Between 1993 to 2004 she played in 48 games for the Austria Fed Cup team, winning 30... |
19 | 16 |
Other entrants
The following players received wildcardWild card (sports)
The term wild card refers broadly to a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play.-International sports:...
s into the singles main draw: Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Winfield Stevenson is a professional tennis player. She made her professional debut in 1999 at Wimbledon, two weeks following graduation from La Jolla Country Day School. At the Wimbledon Championships, Stevenson became the first woman qualifier in the Tennis Open Era to reach the...
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...
Olga Barabanschikova
Olga Barabanschikova
Olga Barabanschikova is a professional Belarusian tennis player.Barabanschikova highest WTA singles ranking is 49th, which she reached on 2 March 1998. Her career high in doubles was at 81 set at 19 October 1998...
Lilia Osterloh
Lilia Osterloh
Lilia Osterloh is a tennis player from the United States, who started a professional career in August 1997....
The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw: Olga Barabanschikova
Olga Barabanschikova
Olga Barabanschikova is a professional Belarusian tennis player.Barabanschikova highest WTA singles ranking is 49th, which she reached on 2 March 1998. Her career high in doubles was at 81 set at 19 October 1998...
/
Magüi SernaMagüi Serna
María Luisa Serna Barrera is a professional female tennis player from Spain. She started competing in ITF challengers as from 1993, and joined the WTA Tour in 1996. On her high point she was ranked World No...
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...
/
Anke HuberAnke Huber
Anke Huber is a German retired professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1996 Australian Open. Her career-high singles ranking was fourth, also in 1996.-Early life:...
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik
Alicia Molik is a Australian professional female tennis player. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Molik also reached a career high doubles ranking of number 6, and won two grand slam doubles titles, at the...
Brie Rippner Barbara Rittner
Barbara Rittner
Barbara Rittner is a former professional tennis player who comes from Germany. Her career high ranking was No. 24 in the world, a ranking she achieved on 1 February 1993. She currently is the captain of the German Fed Cup team....
Tatiana Panova
Tatiana Panova
Tatiana Urayevna Panova is a Russian professional female tennis player. On 23 September 2002 Panova reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 20....
Miho Saeki
Miho Saeki
is a Japanese tennis player, winner of professional tournaments in doubles and singles, and a representative of Japan for the Federation Cup.-Career:...
María Sánchez Lorenzo
María Sánchez Lorenzo
María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo is a retired Spanish professional tennis player.Her highest WTA ranking has been World No...
Andrea Glass
Andrea Glass
Andrea Glass is a professional German tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 53rd, which she reached on 1 February 1999, the year in which she reached the third round of the Australian Open, where Anna Kournikova beat her 4-6 6-2 6-3...
Jessica Steck
Kristie Boogert
Kristie Boogert
Kristie Boogert was a professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 5 February 1996 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 29....
/
Anne-Gaëlle SidotAnne-Gaëlle Sidot
Anne-Gaelle Sidot is a former professional tennis player from France.-Career:...
Men's Singles
Mark PhilippoussisMark Philippoussis
Mark Anthony Philippoussis is an Australian tennis player. He turned professional in 1994. His father is Greek, while his mother is of Italian ancestry....
def.
Carlos MoyáCarlos Moyá
Carlos Moya Llompart is a retired former world no. 1 tennis player from Spain. He was the French Open singles champion in 1998 and was the singles runner-up at the 1997 Australian Open. In 2004, he helped his country win the Davis Cup. He currently resides in Switzerland...
5–7, 6–4, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2
- It was Philippoussis' 2nd title of the year and the 10th of his career. It was his 1st Super 9 title.
Women's Singles
Serena WilliamsSerena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. The Women's Tennis Association has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on five separate occasions. She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8, 2002 and regained this ranking for the fifth time on...
def.
Steffi GrafSteffi 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...
6–3, 3–6, 7–5
- It was Williams' 3rd title of the year and the 7th of her career. It was her 1st Tier I title.
Men's Doubles
Wayne BlackWayne Black
Wayne Hamilton Black is a former professional male tennis player from Zimbabwe.Black is the son of Don and Velia Black and the brother of Cara Black and Byron Black, also professional tennis players. He attended the University of Southern California and was an All-American in singles and doubles...
/
Sandon StolleSandon Stolle
Sandon Stolle is a former professional male tennis player from Australia and former World No. 2 in doubles .Stolle is the son of former Australian tennis champion Fred Stolle...
def.
Ellis FerreiraEllis Ferreira
Ellis Ferreira is a former professional male tennis player from South Africa. He played collegiately at the University of Alabama, earning all-SEC and all-American honors. He won 2 Grand Slam doubles titles, the Men's title at the 2000 Australian Open with Rick Leach and the mixed doubles at the...
/
Rick LeachRick Leach
----Rick Leach is a former professional tennis player and a coach from the United States. A doubles specialist, he won 5 Grand Slam men's doubles titles , and 4 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles . Leach reached the World No...
7–6 (7–4), 6–3
- It was Black's 2nd title of the year and the 2nd of his career. It was Stolle's 2nd title of the year and the 11th of his career.
Women's Doubles
Martina HingisMartina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
/
Anna KournikovaAnna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name...
def.
Mary Joe FernándezMary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...
/
Jana NovotnáJana Novotná
Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...
6–2, 6–2
- It was Hingis' 4th title of the year and the 43rd of her career. It was Kournikova's 2nd title of the year and the 3rd of her career.