The 1999 Family Circle Cup doubles was the doubles event of the twenty-seventh edition of the tennis tournament played at
Hilton Head, United States. It is the third
WTA Tier I tournament of the year, and part of the US Spring tennis season.
Conchita Martínez
Conchita Martínez Bernat (born 16 April 1972) is a Spanish former professional tennis player and current coach. She was the first Spaniard to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon, doing so in 1994. Martínez also was the runner-up at th ...
and
Patricia Tarabini
Patricia Tarabini (born 6 August 1968) is an Argentine tennis coach, retired top 30 singles player and former Grand Slam mixed-doubles champion.
Career
She represented her country and won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic games, w ...
were the defending champions but lost in the second round to
Silvia Farina
Silvia Farina-Elia (; born 27 April 1972) is a former professional tennis player from Italy. She won three WTA singles titles, reached the quarterfinals of the 2003 Wimbledon Championships and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. ...
and
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 ...
.
Elena Likhovtseva
Elena Alexandrovna Likhovtseva ( ; born 8 September 1975) is a Kazakhstani-born Russian former tennis player. She turned professional in January 1992, at the age of 16.
Together with Mahesh Bhupathi she won the Wimbledon Mixed doubles in 20 ...
and
Jana Novotná
Jana Novotná (; 2 October 1968 – 19 November 2017) was a Czech professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 2 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in 1997, and as the world No. 1 in women's doubles for 67 weeks. ...
won in the final 6–1, 6–4 against
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, ...
and
Patty Schnyder
Patty Schnyder (born 14 December 1978)
Weltwoche, 14. September 2011
.
Seeds
The top four
seeded teams received
byes
In cricket, a bye is a type of extra. It is a run scored by the batting team when the ball has not been hit by the batter and the ball has not hit the batter's body.
Scoring byes
Usually, if the ball passes the batter without being deflected, th ...
into the second round.
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
External links
1999 Family Circle Cup draw
{{DEFAULTSORT:1999 Family Circle Cup - Doubles
Family Circle Cup
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