The 1996 Barilla Indoors was a tennis

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 hard courts at the Hallenstadion

Hallenstadion

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 in Zürich

Zürich

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 in Switzerland

Switzerland

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 that was part of Tier I 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 October 14 through October 20, 1996.

Gabriela Sabatini

Gabriela Sabatini

Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...

 announced her retirement after losing her first-round match against Jennifer Capriati

Jennifer Capriati

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Women's Singles

  Jana Novotná

Jana Novotná

Jana Novotná is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. She played a serve and volley game, an increasingly rare style of play among women during her career. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

defeated   Martina Hingis

Martina 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...

 6–2, 6–2

• It was Novotná's 8th title of the year and the 74th of her career.

Women's Doubles

  Martina Hingis

Martina 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...

/   Helena Suková

Helena Suková

Helena Suková is a former professional tennis player from Czechia. During her career, she won 14 Grand Slam titles, 9 of them in women's doubles and 5 of them in mixed doubles...

defeated   Nicole Arendt

Nicole Arendt

Nicole J. Arendt is an American professional tennis player. Arendt won sixteen doubles titles in her career. The left-hander reached her highest singles ranking on the WTA Tour on June 16, 1997, when she was ranked forty-ninth in the world...

 /   Natasha Zvereva

Natasha Zvereva

Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...

7–5, 6–4

• It was Hingis' 3rd title of the year and the 4th of her career. It was Suková's 4th title of the year and the 76th of her career.