Gloria Pizzichini was the defending champion but lost in the second round to
Sarah Pitkowski.
15-year-old
Mirjana Lučić Mirjana (; ) is a South Slavic feminine given name.
The name is widespread throughout Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia and North Macedonia.
Mirjana is a form of Miryam.
The name is also related to ′'' mir''′ ...
won in the final 7–5, 6–7
(4–7), 7–6
(7–5) against
Corina Morariu
Corina Maria Morariu (born January 26, 1978) is an American former professional tennis player.
Morariu (pronounced: mo-RA-R'ju) was born in Detroit, Michigan and is of Romanian descent. She turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubl ...
. The tournament was Lučić's professional debut on the WTA Tour, making her the first unranked player to win a title on the WTA Tour.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.
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Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer (born 22 October 1971, in Hoopstad) is a South African former professional tennis player. Coetzer finished in the WTA rankings top 20 for ten consecutive seasons (1992–2001), peaking at world No. 3. She reached three Grand Sla ...
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Dominique Van Roost ''(first round)''
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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 ...
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Katarína Studeníková
Katarína Studeníková (born 2 September 1972) is a former professional Slovak tennis player.
Her highest singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is 31st, which she reached on 23 December 1996. Her career-high in doubles was at ...
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Alexandra Fusai ''(second round)''
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Miriam Oremans
Miriam Oremans (born 9 September 1972) is a former professional female tennis player from the Netherlands. On 26 July 1993 she reached her career-high singles ranking of number 25.
She did not win any singles titles (Oremans did have two Sate ...
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Gloria Pizzichini ''(second round)''
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Annabel Ellwood
Annabel Ellwood (born 2 February 1978) is a former professional tennis player from Australia. She is the sister of former ATP Tour professional Ben Ellwood.
Ellwood, a right-handed player, born in Canberra, competed at seven Australian Open t ...
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Draw
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1997 Singles
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1997 WTA Tour