1996 Bank of the West Classic
Encyclopedia
The 1996 Bank of the West Classic was a tennis
tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California
in the United States
that was part of Tier II
of the 1996 WTA Tour
. The tournament was held from November 4 through November 10, 1996.
Martina Hingis
defeated
Monica Seles
6–2, 6–0
Lindsay Davenport
/ Mary Joe Fernández
defeated
Irina Spîrlea
/
Nathalie Tauziat
6–1, 6–3
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
that was part of Tier II
WTA Tier II Events
The WTA Tier II tournaments were Women's Tennis Association tennis second-level tournaments held from 1988 until 2008 season. The line-up of events varied over the years, with tournaments being promoted, demoted or cancelled...
of the 1996 WTA Tour
1996 WTA Tour
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association . The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events...
. The tournament was held from November 4 through November 10, 1996.
Singles
Martina HingisMartina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
defeated
Monica SelesMonica Seles
Monica Seles is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She was born in Novi Sad, Serbia, former Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007...
6–2, 6–0
- It was Hingis' 4th title of the year and the 5th of her career.
Doubles
Lindsay DavenportLindsay Davenport
Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. In 2005, TENNIS Magazine ranked her as the 29th-best player of the preceding forty years...
/
Mary Joe FernándezMary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...
defeated
Irina SpîrleaIrina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world...
/
Nathalie TauziatNathalie Tauziat
Nathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....
6–1, 6–3
- It was Davenport's 7th title of the year and the 17th of her career. It was Fernández's 4th title of the year and the 22nd of her career.