The 1998 Chase Championships was a women's
tennis tournament played on indoor
carpet courts at
Madison Square Garden
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New York City,
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in the United States. It was the
27th edition of the
year-end singles championships, the
23rd edition of the year-end doubles championships, and was part of the
1998 WTA Tour
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. The tournament was held from November 16 through November 22, 1998.
Martina Hingis won the singles title and earned $500,000 first-prize money. It was the last edition of the tournament to be played in the best-of-five-set format for the final which it had used since 1984.
Finals
Singles
Martina Hingis defeated
Lindsay Davenport, 7–5, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2.
* It was Hingis' 14th title of the year and the 39th of her career.
Doubles
Lindsay Davenport /
Natasha Zvereva defeated
Alexandra Fusai /
Nathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat (born 17 October 1967) is a French former professional tennis player. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships and runner-up in the women's doubles at the 2001 US Open partnering Kimberl ...
, 6–7, 7–5, 6–3.
* It was Davenport's 12th title of the year and the 43rd of her career. It was Zvereva's 8th title of the year and the 81st of her career.
References
External links
WTA tournament archive – 2000 Chase Championships draw(PDF)
WTA Finals history
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