1999 Wimbledon Championships
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The 1999 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
in Wimbledon
in London in England. It was the 113th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 21 June to 4 July 1999.
Pete Sampras
defeated Andre Agassi
, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5
Lindsay Davenport
defeated
Steffi Graf
, 6–4, 7–5
Mahesh Bhupathi
/ Leander Paes
defeated
Paul Haarhuis
/ Jared Palmer
, 6–7(10–12), 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Lindsay Davenport
/ Corina Morariu
defeated
Mariaan de Swardt
/
Elena Tatarkova
, 6–4, 6–4
Lisa Raymond
/ Leander Paes
defeated
Anna Kournikova
/
Jonas Björkman
, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
Jürgen Melzer
defeated
Kristian Pless
, 7–6(9–7), 6–3
Iroda Tulyaganova
defeated Lina Krasnoroutskaya
, 7–6(7–3), 6–4
Guillermo Coria
/ David Nalbandian
defeated
Todor Enev / 
Jarkko Nieminen
, 7–5, 6–4
Dája Bedáňová
/ María Emilia Salerni
defeated Tatiana Perebiynis
/ Iroda Tulyaganova
, 6–1, 2–6, 6–2
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club , also known as the All-England Club, based at Aorangi Park, Wimbledon, London, England, is a private members club. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, the only Grand Slam tennis event still held on grass...
in Wimbledon
Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon is a district in the south west area of London, England, located south of Wandsworth, and east of Kingston upon Thames. It is situated within Greater London. It is home to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas...
in London in England. It was the 113th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 21 June to 4 July 1999.
Men's Singles
Pete SamprasPete Sampras
Pete Sampras is a retired American tennis player and former world no. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time....
defeated
Andre AgassiAndre Agassi
Andre Kirk Agassi is a retired American professional tennis player and former world no. 1. Generally considered by critics and fellow players to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time, Agassi has been called the best service returner in the history of the game...
, 6–3, 6–4, 7–5
- It was Sampras' 12th career Grand Slam title and his 6th Wimbledon title.
Women's Singles
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...
defeated
Steffi GrafSteffi Graf
Steffi Graf is a former World No. 1 German tennis player.In total, Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...
, 6–4, 7–5
- It was Davenport's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Wimbledon title.
Men's Doubles
Mahesh BhupathiMahesh Bhupathi
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player widely regarded as among the best doubles players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his credit. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament...
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Leander PaesLeander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...
defeated
Paul HaarhuisPaul Haarhuis
Paul Vincent Nicholas Haarhuis is a Dutch former professional tennis player. He is a former World No. 1 doubles player. He won six Grand Slam men's doubles titles, five with Jacco Eltingh and one with Yevgeny Kafelnikov.-Personal life:...
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Jared PalmerJared Palmer
Jared Eiseley Palmer is a professional tennis player who won 28 professional doubles titles and one singles title in his career on the ATP Tour. He also won four double titles on the challenger's circuit...
, 6–7(10–12), 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
- It was Bhupathi's 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 1st Wimbledon title. It was Paes' 2nd career Grand Slam title and his 1st Wimbledon title.
Women's 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...
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Corina MorariuCorina Morariu
Corina Marie Morariu is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.Morariu turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the...
defeated
Mariaan de SwardtMariaan de Swardt
Mariaan de Swardt is a former tennis player from South Africa, who played as a professional from 1988 to 2001. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics, in 1992 and 1996, and was a member of the South African Fed Cup Team in 1992 and 1994-1997. In 2006, de Swardt became a U.S...
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Elena TatarkovaElena Tatarkova
Elena Tatarkova is a professional female tennis player from Ukraine. Now retired, she won four ITF singles titles, four WTA doubles titles, and 25 ITF doubles titles...
, 6–4, 6–4
- It was Davenport's 5th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd and last Wimbledon title. It was Morariu's 1st career Grand Slam title and her only Wimbledon title.
Mixed Doubles
Lisa RaymondLisa Raymond
Lisa Raymond is an American professional tennis player who has achieved notable success in doubles tennis. On June 12, 2000, she reached the world number one ranking in doubles...
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Leander PaesLeander Paes
Leander Adrian Paes, pronounced pās, is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament...
defeated
Anna KournikovaAnna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova is a Russian retired professional tennis player. Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite the fact that she never won a WTA singles title. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name...
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Jonas BjörkmanJonas Björkman
Jonas Lars Björkman is a former World Number 4 Swedish professional tennis player. He is also a former World No. 1 in doubles. Björkman retired from professional tennis after competing at the 2008 Tennis Masters Cup Doubles championships....
, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3
- It was Raymond's 2nd career Grand Slam title and her 1st Wimbledon title. It was Paes' 3rd career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Wimbledon title.
Boys' Singles
Jürgen MelzerJürgen Melzer
Jürgen Melzer is an Austrian tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of no. 8 on 18 April 2011, and a doubles ranking of no. 6 on 13 September 2010. He is the only current player on the ATP Tour to be ranked in the top 10 in both singles and doubles. He is a left-handed tennis player, but...
defeated
Kristian PlessKristian Pless
Kristian Peter Pless is a professional male tennis player from Denmark.In 1999, he won the Australian Open for juniors , and reached the junior finals at Wimbledon , and the US Open . He finished 1999 as the no...
, 7–6(9–7), 6–3
Girls' Singles
Iroda TulyaganovaIroda Tulyaganova
Iroda Tulyaganova is a professional tennis player who comes from Uzbekistan.She has been ranked as high as No.16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career...
defeated
Lina KrasnoroutskayaLina Krasnoroutskaya
Lina Vladimirovna Krasnoroutskaya is a former Junior World Number 1 tennis player. In addition to gaining the coveted top spot, Lina won the US Open Junior title...
, 7–6(7–3), 6–4
Boys' Doubles
Guillermo CoriaGuillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
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David NalbandianDavid Nalbandian
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
defeated
Todor Enev / Jarkko NieminenJarkko Nieminen
Jarkko Kalervo Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.His highest ranking is 13th, which was achieved on July 10, 2006. He has won one ATP singles title and two doubles titles in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the quarter-finals...
, 7–5, 6–4
Girls' Doubles
Dája BedáňováDája Bedánová
Dája Bedáňová is a former professional female tennis player from the Czech Republic. She lives in Leonberg, Germany. Bedáňová turned pro in 2000 and retired in 2005.-Singles wins :...
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María Emilia SalerniMaría Emilia Salerni
María Emilia Salerni , known as Pitu Salerni, was an Argentine professional tennis player from the city of Rafaela, province of Santa Fe....
defeated
Tatiana PerebiynisTatiana Perebiynis
Tetyana Yurevna Perebiynis , born on December 15, 1982 is a Top 100 female professional tennis player born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she lives. She is an only child. She reached the Wimbledon junior girls' singles final in 2000, and won the Wimbledon juniors doubles final that year...
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Iroda TulyaganovaIroda Tulyaganova
Iroda Tulyaganova is a professional tennis player who comes from Uzbekistan.She has been ranked as high as No.16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career...
, 6–1, 2–6, 6–2