Two-time defending champion
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
Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo (; born 5 July 1979) is a French former world No. 1 tennis player and tournament director. Mauresmo won two major singles titles at the 2006 Australian Open and Wimbledon Championships, and also won the silver medal in s ...
in the final, 6–2, 6–3 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1999 Australian Open. With the win, she joined
Margaret Court
Margaret Court (''née'' Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian retired former world No. 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, her 24 maj ...
,
Evonne Goolagong
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (née Goolagong; born 31 July 1951) is an Australian former world No. 1 tennis player. Goolagong was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.
At the age of 19, she won the French Open sing ...
,
Steffi Graf, and
Monica Seles
Monica Seles (; hu, Széles Mónika, ; sr, Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; born December 2, 1973) is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world No. 1, she won nine Grand Sla ...
as the only women to win three consecutive
Australian Open titles. Hingis also became the only woman to win three consecutive Australian Open titles in singles and doubles simultaneously.
This tournament marked future world No. 1 Mauresmo's first
major final, and the first time she progressed past the third round of a major. It would be her only major final until
2006, despite being one of the top players of the early 2000s.
Prior to her semifinal defeat to Hingis, Seles was undefeated in 33 matches at the Australian Open, dating back to her tournament debut in
1991
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, the longest undefeated winning streak at one tournament by a woman in the
Open Era
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.
This was the last Australian Open appearance for four-time champion
Steffi Graf, who was defeated by Seles in the quarterfinals.
Seeds
Qualifying draw
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
1999 Australian Open – Women's draws and resultsat the
International Tennis Federation
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Women's singles
Australian Open (tennis) by year – Women's singles
1999 in Australian women's sport