1996 Direct Line International Championships
Encyclopedia
The 1996 Direct Line International Championships was a tennis
tournament played on grass court
s at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club
in Eastbourne
in England
that was part of Tier II of the 1996 WTA Tour
. The tournament was held from June 18 through June 22, 1996.
Monica Seles
defeated Mary Joe Fernández
6–0, 6–2
Jana Novotná
/
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
defeated
Rosalyn Nideffer
/ Pam Shriver
4–6, 7–5, 6–4
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 grass court
Grass court
A grass court is one of the four different types of tennis court. Grass courts are made of rye grass in different compositions depending on the tournament...
s at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club
Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club
The Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club is a tennis complex in Eastbourne, United Kingdom. The complex is the host of the annual WTA Tour stop, the AEGON International. The stadium court has a capacity of 8,000 people.-External links:*...
in Eastbourne
Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a large town and borough in East Sussex, on the south coast of England between Brighton and Hastings. The town is situated at the eastern end of the chalk South Downs alongside the high cliff at Beachy Head...
in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
that was part of Tier II 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 June 18 through June 22, 1996.
Women's Singles
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...
defeated
Mary Joe FernándezMary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...
6–0, 6–2
- It was Seles' 3rd singles title of the year and the 36th of her career.
Women's Doubles
Jana NovotnáJana 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...
/
Arantxa Sánchez VicarioArantxa Sánchez Vicario
Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...
defeated
Rosalyn NidefferRosalyn Fairbank
Rosalyn Doris Fairbank-Nideffer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. She played her first grand slam in 1979, with her last appearance coming as late as 1997...
/
Pam ShriverPam Shriver
Pamela Howard Shriver Lazenby , is a former professional tennis player and is currently a sports broadcaster from the United States for ESPN2. During the 1980s and 1990s, she won 133 top-level titles, including 21 women's doubles titles and one mixed doubles title at Grand Slam tournaments...
4–6, 7–5, 6–4
- It was Novotná's 5th doubles title of the year and the 61st of her career. It was Sánchez Vicario's 8th doubles title of the year and the 48th of her career.