Janette Husárová Janette Husárová (; born 4 June 1974) is a Slovak former tennis player. On 13 January 2003, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 31. On 21 April 2003, she peaked at No. 3 in the doubles rankings. She won the WTA Tour Championshi ...

and Natalia Medvedeva were the defending champions but did not compete that year.

Eva Melicharová Eva Melicharová (born 2 February 1970) is a former Czech professional tennis player. Melicharová has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 234, achieved on 21 June 1993. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 47, achieved on 26 Janua ...

and

Helena Vildová Helena Vildová (born 19 March 1972) is a retired Czech tennis player. In her career, she won three doubles titles on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour ...

won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against

Radka Bobková Radka Bobková (born 12 February 1973) is a former Czech professional tennis player. Bobková has a career-high WTA singles ranking of 47, achieved on 20 September 1993. She also has a best doubles ranking of 59, reached on 14 August 1995. She w ...

and

Wiltrud Probst Wiltrud Probst (born 29 May 1969) is a former tennis player from Germany. She was ranked world No. 31 on 4 February 1991. Probst won in singles two titles on the WTA Tour. In 1990, she won the tournament in the New Zealand capital Wellington ...

Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. #

Barbara Schett Barbara Schett Eagle (; born 10 March 1976) is an Austrian former professional tennis player, who reached her highest singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1999. Between 1993 and 2004 she played in 48 matches for the Austria Fed Cup team, ...

Patty Schnyder Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978)
Weltwoche, 14. September 2011 is a Swiss reti ...

''(semifinals)'' #

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Laura Garrone Laura Garrone (born 15 November 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. In her career, Garrone won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide t ...

Gloria Pizzichini Gloria Pizzichini (born 24 July 1975) is an Italian former tennis player. On 18 November 1996, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 45. In the same year, she won her only WTA Tour title. In the 1996 "M" Electronika Cup final ...

''(quarterfinals)'' #

Catherine Barclay Catherine Barclay (born 12 June 1973) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two pl ...

Magdalena Grzybowska Magdalena Grzybowska (born 22 November 1978) is a former tennis player from Poland. Grzybowska, born in Poznań, won the juniors singles competition at the 1996 Australian Open. She also competed for Poland in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, whe ...

''(quarterfinals)''

Draw

References

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WTA tournament draws

ITF tournament edition details
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