The 1998 ENKA Open was a

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tournament played on outdoor hard courts in

Istanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_i ...

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that was part of Tier IV of the

1998 WTA Tour The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). 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 ...

. The tournament was held from August 3 through August 9, 1998.

Champions

Singles

Henrieta Nagyová Henrieta Nagyová (born 15 December 1978) is a former tennis player from Slovakia. She turned professional in 1994 and has been ranked as high as No. 21 in the world (17 September 2001). She won nine singles tournaments and four doubles tournam ...

defeated

Olga Barabanschikova Olga Barabanschikova ( be, Вольга Барабаншчыкава; russian: Ольга Барабанщикова; born 2 November 1979) is a former professional Belarusian tennis player. Barabanschikova's highest WTA singles ranking is 49t ...

6–4, 3–6, 7–6 * It was Nagyová's 2nd title of the year and the 5th of her career.

Doubles

Meike Babel Meike Babel (born 22 November 1974) is a former tennis player from Germany. She was women's tennis assistant coach at Tulane University and at Vanderbilt University. In her ten years on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis ...

Laurence Courtois Laurence Courtois (born 18 January 1976) is a former professional female tennis player from Belgium. Courtois, who was born in Kortrijk Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in E ...

defeated

Åsa Carlsson Åsa may refer to: * Åsa, Kungsbacka, Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden * Åsa, Ringerike, Ringerike municipality, Buskerud, Norway People with the given name * Åsa Domeij (born 1962), former politician for the Swedish Green Part ...

/ Florencia Labat 6–0, 6–2 * It was Babel's only title of the year and the 1st of her career. It was Courtois' only title of the year and the 2nd of her career. {{1998 WTA Tour ENKA Open ENKA Open 1998 in Turkish tennis