1999 Australian Open

1999 Australian Open
Date:
Edition:		87th
Category:		Grand Slam (ITF)
Location:		Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Champions
Men's Singles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Women's Singles
Martina Hingis
Men's Doubles
Jonas Björkman / Patrick Rafter
Women's Doubles
Martina Hingis / Anna Kournikova
Mixed Doubles
Mariaan de Swardt / David Adams
Australian Open  < 1998 2000 >

Singles players

Men's Singles

• Men's Singles

Champion		Runner-up
Yevgeny Kafelnikov (10)		Thomas Enqvist
Semifinals out
Tommy Haas		Nicolas Lapentti
Quarterfinals out
T Martin (15)	V Spadea	M Rosset	K Kucera (7)
4th Round out
W Black	A Pavel	F Santoro	A Agassi (5)
B Ulihrach	M Philippoussis (14)	W Ferreira	A Ilie
3rd Round out
G Pozzi	P Korda	J Courier	P Goldstein
N Kiefer	D Nestor	M Damm	J Novak
T Henman (6)	J Tarango	J Kroslak	P Rafter (3)
M Safin	R Krajicek (9)	M Tillstrom	C Ruud
2nd Round out
L Roux	A Medvedev	J Alonso	H Dreekmann
J Stoltenberg	Y El Aynaoui	S Huet	G Rusedski (8)
C Mamiit	G Raoux	S Schalken	L Hewitt
S Sargsian	F Squillari	A Clement	S Dosedel
S Stolle	J Knippschild	P Haarhuis	A Cherkasov
M Chang	M Puerta	B Black	M Woodforde
D Sanguinetti	G Kuerten	D Vacek	M Zabaleta
M Norman	J Gimelstob	J Golmard	A Corretja (2)
1st Round out
O Serrano	A Portas	A Voinea	J Bower
G Blanco	S Lareau	C Costa	F Meligeni
J Bjorkman	F Jonsson	P Wessels	F Mantilla
A di Pasquale	J Sanchez	K Carlsen	S Draper
C Moya (4)	S Koubek	A Martin	D Caldwell
V Voltchkov	T Muster	M Kohlmann	C Pioline (13)
A Costa (12)	J Siemerink	R Delgado	L Burgsmuller
S Campbell	F Clavet	D Pescariu	H Gumy
K Alami	G Canas	T Woodbridge	W Arthurs
M Tebbutt	A Berasategui	S Grosjean	B Karbacher
G Grant	B Steven	JA Marin	M Carlsson
T Mitchell	J-M Gambill	M Draper	O Gross
F Vicente	L Paes	D Prinosil	M Ondruska
M Hipfl	D Hrbaty	J Sirianni	H Arazi
T Johansson (16)	J van Lottum	L Tieleman	R Schuettler
E Kempes	P Luxa	L Arnold Ker	T Suzuki

List of the 1999 Australian Open Champions:

Seniors

Men's Singles

Yevgeny Kafelnikov^[1] def. Thomas Enqvist, 4–6, 6–0, 6–3, 7–6(1)

• It was Kafelnikov's 1st title of the year, and his 18th overall. It was his 2nd (and last) career Grand Slam title, and his 1st Australian Open title.

Women's Singles

Martina Hingis^[2] def. Amélie Mauresmo^[3], 6–2, 6–3

• It was Hingis's 1st title of the year, and her 20th overall. It was her 5th (and last) career Grand Slam title, and her 3rd (consecutive) Australian Open title.

Men's Doubles

Jonas Björkman / Patrick Rafter def. Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes, 6–3, 4–6, 6–4, 6–7(10), 6–4

Women's Doubles

Martina Hingis / Anna Kournikova def. Lindsay Davenport / Natasha Zvereva, 7–5, 6–3

Mixed Doubles

Mariaan de Swardt / David Adams def. Serena Williams / Max Mirnyi, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(5)

Juniors

Boys' Singles

Kristian Pless def. Mikhail Youzhny, 6–4, 6–3

Girls' Singles

Virginie Razzano def. Katarina Basternakova, 6–1, 6–1

Boys' Doubles

Jürgen Melzer / Kristian Pless

Girls' Doubles

Eleni Daniilidou / Virginie Razzano

Notes

1. ^ Kafelnikov became the first Russian player (male or female) to win the Australian Open singles crown.
2. ^ Hingis became the fifth player in the Open Era (after Court, Goolagong, Graf and Seles) to win three consecutive titles.
3. ^ Mauresmo became only the second Frenchwoman (after Mary Pierce) to reach the women's singles final.