Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (, sk, Martina Hingisová; 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Hingis is the first Swiss player, male or female, to win a major title and attain a world No. 1 ranking. She spent a total of 209 weeks a ...
defeated
Monica Seles in the final, 3–6, 6–3, 7–6 to win the singles tennis title at the 1997 Family Circle Cup.
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to
Amanda Coetzer.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top nine
seeds
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering, along with a food reserve. The formation of the seed is a part of the process of reproduction in seed plants, the spermatophytes, including the gymnosperm and angiosperm pl ...
received a
bye to the second round.
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Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (, sk, Martina Hingisová; 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player. Hingis is the first Swiss player, male or female, to win a major title and attain a world No. 1 ranking. She spent a total of 209 weeks a ...
(champion)
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Arantxa Sánchez Vicario ''(third round)''
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Jana Novotná ''(third round)''
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Monica Seles ''(final)''
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Conchita MartÃnez
"Conchita" MartÃnez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. She was the first Spaniard to win the women's singles title at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon, doing so in 1994 Wimbledon Championships â ...
''(semifinals)''
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Lindsay Davenport ''(quarterfinals)''
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Anke Huber ''(quarterfinals)''
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Irina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea (born 26 March 1974) is a retired tennis player from Romania who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles. Spîrlea reached her career-high ranking on the WTA Tour on 13 October 1997, when she becam ...
''(third round)''
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Iva Majoli
Iva Majoli-Marić (born 12 August 1977) is a former professional tennis player from Croatia who played for both Yugoslavia and Croatia. She upset Martina Hingis to win the women's singles title at the French Open in 1997. Majoli also won seven ot ...
''(third round)''
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Karina Habšudová ''(first round)''
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Mary Joe Fernández ''(first round)''
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Barbara Paulus ''(third round)''
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Amanda Coetzer ''(quarterfinals)''
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Brenda Schultz-McCarthy ''(semifinals)''
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Elena Likhovtseva ''(first round)''
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Magdalena Maleeva
Magdalena Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Магдалена Георгиева Малеева, ; born 1 April 1975) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the WTA Tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to Octo ...
''(second round)''
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Bottom half
Section 3
Section 4
References
1997 Family Circle Cup drawArchived
2009-09-25)
{{DEFAULTSORT:1997 Family Circle Cup - Singles
Charleston Open
1997 WTA Tour