The 1999 Tashkent Open was a women's tennis tournament played on hard courts at the

Tashkent Tennis Center Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2 ...

in Tashkent, Uzbekistan that was part of the Tier IV category of the

1999 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 ...

. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 7 June through 13 June 1999. First-seeded

Anna Smashnova Anna Smashnova ( he, אנה סמשנובה, russian: Анна Смашнова; born July 16, 1976) is a Soviet-born Israeli former tennis player. She retired from professional tour after Wimbledon 2007. Smashnova reached her career-high single ...

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: *

Lilia Biktyakova Lilia Biktyakova (born 2 February 1979) is an Uzbekistani former professional tennis player. Tennis career A left-handed player from Tashkent, Biktyakova represented the Uzbekistan Fed Cup team in the late 1990s. From her 11 Fed Cup ties she wo ...

Iroda Tulyaganova Iroda Tulyaganova ( uz, Ирода Тўлаганов, translit=Iroda To'laganova; born 7 January 1982) is a former professional tennis player from Uzbekistan. Tulyaganova has career-high WTA rankings of 16 in singles (reached in June 2002) an ...

The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw: * Tatiana Perebiynis /

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw: *

Keiko Nagatomi Keiko Nagatomi (born 22 November 1974) is a Japanese former professional tennis player. Nagatomi, who had a highest singles ranking of 271, won four ITF titles and had her best WTA Tour performance at the 1999 Tashkent Open, where she made the ...

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 ...

* Anastasia Myskina * Anna Zaporozhanova The following players received entry from the doubles qualifying draw: *

Ekaterina Paniouchkina Ekaterina Paniouchkina (russian: Екатерина Панюшкина; born 29 January 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Russia. Paniouchkina has career-high WTA rankings of 635 in singles, achieved on 20 December 1999, and 291 ...

/ Anastasia Rodionova

Finals

Singles

defeated Laurence Courtois, 6–3, 6–3. *It was Smashnova's first career title.

Doubles

Evgenia Kulikovskaya /

Patricia Wartusch Patricia Wartusch (born 5 August 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Austria. She reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 65 in 2000. She won in her career two singles and six doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She won ...

defeated

Eva Bes Eva Bes Ostáriz (born 14 January 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Spain. She won a total of six singles and 29 doubles titles on the International Tennis Federation, ITF Circuit during her career. On 4 March 2002, she reached ...

Gisela Riera Gisela Riera Roura (born 7 May 1976) is a retired Spanish tennis player. Riera won four singles and eight doubles ITF titles during her career and on 7 June 1999 reached a singles ranking high of world number 136. On 12 June 2000, she peaked ...

, 7–6^(7–3), 6–0.

External links

Official website

ITF Tournament Profile

Tournament draws
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