1996 Meta Styrian Open - Singles
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Judith Wiesner
was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Lenka Cenková
.
Barbara Paulus
won when Sandra Cecchini
was forced to retire in the first game of the final.
Judith Wiesner
Judith Wiesner is a former professional tennis player from Austria. During her career, she won six top-level singles titles and three tour doubles titles. Her career high rankings were World Number 12 in singles , and World Number 29 in doubles...
was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Lenka Cenková
Lenka Cenková
Lenka Cenková is a former professional Czech tennis player. Her career highlights where years 1996 and 1997. She quit tennis in 2001.-Singles:...
.
Barbara Paulus
Barbara Paulus
Barbara Paulus is a former professional top 10 female tennis player from Austria. She began playing on the WTA Tour in 1986 and retired in 2001. During her career she won a total of seven WTA tournaments...
won when Sandra Cecchini
Sandra Cecchini
Anna-Maria Cecchini is a former Italian professional tennis player.Cecchini or Sandra as she was known on the WTA tour, played from 1981 to 1998 and won 11 singles titles. Her most notable Grand Slam performance came in her first appearance at Roland Garros in 1984, when she reached the quarter...
was forced to retire in the first game of the final.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.-
Barbara PaulusBarbara PaulusBarbara Paulus is a former professional top 10 female tennis player from Austria. She began playing on the WTA Tour in 1986 and retired in 2001. During her career she won a total of seven WTA tournaments...
(Champion) - Judith WiesnerJudith WiesnerJudith Wiesner is a former professional tennis player from Austria. During her career, she won six top-level singles titles and three tour doubles titles. Her career high rankings were World Number 12 in singles , and World Number 29 in doubles...
(First Round) -
Elena PampoulovaElena PampoulovaElena Pampoulova is a retired professional tennis player from Bulgaria. She competed for Fed Cup of the International Tennis Federation . Elena's first tennis coach was her own mother, Bulgarian tennis player Lubka Radkova...
(First Round) -
Henrieta NagyováHenrieta NagyováHenrieta Nagyová is a Slovak female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1994 and has been ranked as high as the 21st in the world . In recent years her ranking has fallen due to constant injury. In late 2005, she brought her ranking up to a year ending 145, after it fell below 200...
(Second Round)
- Sandra Dopfer (Second Round)
Flora Perfetti (Second Round) 
María Sánchez LorenzoMaría Sánchez LorenzoMaría Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo is a retired Spanish professional tennis player.Her highest WTA ranking has been World No...
(First Round)- Janette HusárováJanette HusárováJanette Husárová is a professional female tennis player from Slovakia. She is probably best remembered for winning the WTA Tour Championships women's doubles title in 2002 partenering Russian Elena Dementieva...
(Second Round)