1999 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The 1999 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament 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 carpet courts. It was the 27th edition of the event known that year as the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament

The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament is a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It is currently part of the 500 series of the ATP Tour...

, and was part of the ATP International Series Gold

ATP International Series Gold

International Series Gold was a series of professional tennis tournaments held internationally that were part of the ATP Tour. International Series Gold offered players cash prizes and the ability to earn ATP ranking points...

of the 1999 ATP Tour

1999 ATP Tour

The Association of Tennis Professionals Tour is the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the ATP. The 1999 ATP Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments , the ATP Super 9, the ATP International Series Gold, the ATP International Series, the ATP World Team Cup, the ATP Tour World...

. It took place at the Ahoy Rotterdam indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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, Netherlands, from February 15 through February 21, 1999.

The singles field featured ATP

Association of Tennis Professionals

The Association of Tennis Professionals or ATP was formed in 1972 by Donald Dell, Jack Kramer, and Cliff Drysdale to protect the interests of male professional tennis players. Since 1990, the association has organized the worldwide tennis tour for men and linked the title of the tour with the...

No. 4, ATP Tour World Championships

1998 ATP Tour World Championships

The 1998 ATP Tour World Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. The surface was called "GreenSet On Wood" which had a wood base coated in synthetic material and provided a medium-pace surface...

winner, and recent Sydney

1999 Sydney International

The 1999 Sydney International was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the NSW Tennis Centre in Sydney in Australia that was part of the International Series of the 1999 ATP Tour and of Tier II of the 1999 WTA Tour...

finalist Àlex Corretja

Àlex Corretja

Àlex Corretja i Verdegay is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he finished runner-up twice at the French Open . He won the ATP Tour World Championships in 1998 and reached his career-high singles ranking of world no. 2 in 1999...

, Àustralian Open

1999 Australian Open

The 1999 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia. It was the 87th edition of the Australian Open and was held from 18 through 31 January 1999. This was the first Grand Slam of the calendar year.In the singles...

champion, Halle

1998 Gerry Weber Open

The 1998 Gerry Weber Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 6th edition of the Gerry Weber Open, and was part of the International Series of the 1998 ATP Tour...

and Moscow titlist Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Yevgeny Kafelnikov

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. He won two Grand Slam singles titles , four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002...

, and Tashkent and Basel winner, Doha runner-up Tim Henman

Tim Henman

Timothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE is a retired English professional tennis player and former British Number One. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis that suited the grass courts of Wimbledon. He was the first player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the...

. Also lined up were Stuttgart Super 9 titlist Richard Krajicek

Richard Krajicek

Richard Peter Stanislav Krajicek is a Dutch former professional tennis player. In 1996 he won the men's singles title at Wimbledon, the only Dutch player to have done so. In the quarterfinals of that tournament he defeated Pete Sampras. This was Sampras' only singles defeat at Wimbledon between...

, Paris Super 9

1998 Paris Open

The 1998 Paris Masters was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 24th edition of the Paris Masters, and is part of the ATP Masters Series of the 1998 ATP Tour. It took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from November 2 through November 9,...

champion Greg Rusedski

Greg Rusedski

Gregory "Greg" Rusedski is a British Canadian former tennis player who turned professional in 1991 and played until his retirement on 7 April 2007, at the age of 33...

, Karol Kučera

Karol Kucera

Karol Kučera is a retired ATP professional male tennis player from Slovakia. He is a former top 10 player and has been ranked as high as World No. 6.-Tennis career:...

, Thomas Enqvist

Thomas Enqvist

Thomas Karl Johan Enqvist is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.He was quickly touted as the only Swede who could follow in the footsteps of Stefan Edberg and Björn Borg, and was ranked as high as No. 4 on the ATP Rankings.Enqvist was a force on the Swedish Davis Cup team...

and Goran Ivanišević

Goran Ivaniševic

Goran Ivanišević is a retired Croatian professional tennis player. He is best remembered for being the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard. He achieved this in 2001, having previously been runner-up at the championships in 1992, 1994 and 1998. Ivanišević is famous...

Singles

Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Russia. He won two Grand Slam singles titles , four Grand Slam doubles titles, and the men's singles gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. He also helped Russia win the Davis Cup in 2002...

def.

Tim Henman

, 6–2, 7–6(3)

It was Yevgeny Kafelnikov's 2nd title of the year, and his 19th overall.

Doubles

David Adams
David Adams (tennis)
David Adams is a former professional tennis player from South Africa. He turned pro in 1989. During his career he won 19 doubles titles and finished runner-up an additional 33 times, including at the French Open in 1992. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No...

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John-Laffnie de Jager
John-Laffnie de Jager
John-Laffnie de Jager is a South African former tour professional tennis player. A doubles specialist, de Jager reached the semi-finals for three different grand slam tournaments three times in three different years partnering three different fellow South African players...

def.

Neil Broad

Neil Broad is a tennis player who represented Great Britain for most of his playing career. He won 7 ATP tour doubles titles in his career, and won the Silver Medal in doubles at the 1996 Summer Olympics....

Peter Tramacchi

Peter Tramacchi , is a former professional tennis player from Australia.Tramacchi enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 doubles title. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No...

, 6–7(5), 6–3, 6–4

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