The 1999 Sanex Trophy was a women's

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Knokke-Heist, Belgium that was part of the Tier IVa category of the

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. It was the inaugural edition of the

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and was held from 2 August until 8 August 1999. Fourth-seeded

María Sánchez Lorenzo María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo (born 7 November 1977) is a retired tennis player from Spain. Her highest WTA ranking has been world No. 33, a position she achieved in April 2004. She played two-handed on both sides, and her favourite sur ...

won the singles title and earned $16,000 first-prize money.

Entrants

Seeds

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: *

Michelle Gerards Michelle Gerards (born 8 July 1984) is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Biography A right-handed player from Limburg, Gerards was the Dutch Under-18 champion at the age of 13 and was a junior quarterfinalist at the 1999 ...

Marta Marrero Marta Marrero (born 16 January 1983), a Spanish former professional tennis player, is a professional padel player. In tennis, she reached the quarterfinals of the French Open, won two WTA doubles titles, and also a total of 14 ITF singles an ...

The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Kim Clijsters / Justine Henin The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: *

Angelika Bachmann Angelika Bachmann (born 16 May 1979) is a former professional German tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player ...

* Mariam Ramon Climent * Anastasia Myskina * Antonella Serra Zanetti The following players received entry from the doubles qualifying draw: *

Petra Begerow Petra Begerow (born 14 April 1975 in Bad Kreuznach) is a former German professional tennis player. Career She reached her highest WTA singles ranking, 29, on 8 April 1996. She reached the second round of the French Open 4 times, 1994-1997. T ...

/ Antonella Serra Zanetti * Hannah Collin /

Finals

Singles

defeated Denisa Chládková, 6–7^(2–7), 6–4, 6–2 * This was Sánchez Lorenzo's only WTA title.

Doubles

Eva Martincová Eva Martincová (born 4 March 1975, in Brno) is a former Czech tennis player. Martincová reached a singles ranking high of world number 94 in June 1997 and even ranked world number 69 in doubles during a career in which she won one WTA doubles ...

Elena Wagner Elena Pampulova (also Elena Pampulova-Wagner, Elena Pampulova-Bergomi, bg, Елена Пампулова, born 17 May 1972) is a retired tennis player from Bulgaria. She has won one singles and three Women's Tennis Association, WTA doubles titl ...

defeated

Evgenia Koulikovskaya Evgenia Kulikovskaya (Russian: Евгения Куликовская; born 21 December 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. She reached her highest singles ranking of No. 91 in June 2003. She had more success in doubles, win ...

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, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3

References

External links

ITF tournament edition details

Tournament draws
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