List of the
1998 Wimbledon Champions:
USA
Pete SamprasPete Sampras is a retired American tennis player and former World No. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles, and had a 203–38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances....
def. CRO
Goran IvaniševićGoran Ivanišević is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. 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...
, 6–7(2), 7–6(9), 6–4, 3–6, 6–2
- It was Sampras' 3rd title of the year, and his 55th overall. It was his 11th career Grand Slam title, and his 5th Wimbledon title.
CZE
Jana NovotnáJana 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...
def. FRA
Nathalie TauziatNathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....
, 6–4, 7–6(2)
- It was Novotná's 3rd title of the year, and her 22nd overall.
List of the
1998 Wimbledon Champions:
Gentlemen's Singles
USA
Pete SamprasPete Sampras is a retired American tennis player and former World No. 1. During his 15-year tour career, he won 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles, and had a 203–38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances....
def. CRO
Goran IvaniševićGoran Ivanišević is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. 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...
, 6–7(2), 7–6(9), 6–4, 3–6, 6–2
- It was Sampras' 3rd title of the year, and his 55th overall. It was his 11th career Grand Slam title, and his 5th Wimbledon title.
Ladies' Singles
CZE
Jana NovotnáJana 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...
def. FRA
Nathalie TauziatNathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....
, 6–4, 7–6(2)
- It was Novotná's 3rd title of the year, and her 22nd overall. It was her 1st (and only) career Grand Slam title.
Gentlemen's Doubles
NED
Jacco EltinghJacco Folkert Eltingh is a former professional male tennis player and former World No. 1 doubles player from the Netherlands.He is best remembered for his success in doubles with fellow countryman Paul Haarhuis...
/ NED
Paul HaarhuisPaul 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....
def. AUS
Todd WoodbridgeTodd Andrew Woodbridge is an Australian former professional tennis player. He turned professional in 1988.- Career :...
/ AUS
Mark WoodfordeMark Woodforde is a retired professional tennis player from Australia. He is most famously remembered as one half of "The Woodies", a doubles partnership with Todd Woodbridge....
, 2–6, 6–4, 7–6(3), 5–7, 10–8
Ladies' Doubles
SUI
Martina HingisMartina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
/ CZE
Jana NovotnáJana 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...
def. USA
Lindsay DavenportLindsay 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...
/ BLR
Natasha ZverevaNatalya "Natasha" Zvereva is a retired tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she'd be able to keep her tournament earnings...
, 6–3, 3–6, 8–6
Mixed Doubles
USA
Serena WilliamsSerena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and current World No. 1. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on four separate occasions...
/ BLR
Max MirnyiMax Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus. Today he is a doubles specialist but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for 7 straight years as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a record of 47...
def. CRO
Mirjana LucicMirjana Lučić is a professional tennis player from Croatia. She enjoyed a brief but promising career on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set a few "youngest-ever" records and won one Grand Slam women's doubles title at the Australian Open in 1998 when she was only 15 years old,...
/ IND
Mahesh BhupathiMahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is an Indian professional tennis player. He is among the best doubles tennis 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 ....
, 6–4, 6–4
Boys' Singles
SUI
Roger FedererRoger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player. As of October 2009, he is ranked world number 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals , having previously held the number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks...
def. GEO
Irakli LabadzeIrakli Labadze Irakli Labadze Irakli Labadze (Ee-ROK-lee La-BAHD-zee (Georgian, ირაკლი ლაბაძე; born June 9, 1981 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a professional tennis player. His career high singles ranking was World No. 42 which he attained in July, 2004....
, 6–4, 6–4
Girls' Singles
SLO
Katarina SrebotnikKatarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player, coached by Biljana Veselinovic. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006. Her nickname amongst fans is...
def. BEL
Kim ClijstersKim Antonie Lode Clijsters is a Belgian tennis player. She is a former World No. 1 ranked player in singles and in doubles. As of September 28, 2009, she is ranked World No. 17....
, 7–6(3), 6–3
Boys' Doubles
SUI
Roger FedererRoger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player. As of October 2009, he is ranked world number 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals , having previously held the number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks...
/ BEL
Olivier RochusOlivier Rochus is a Belgian tennis player. He was born in Namur, Belgium, and currently resides in Auvelais, Belgium.-Career:He was a partner of Roger Federer on the junior circuit....
def. FRA
Michaël Llodra-Life and career:Llodra was born in Paris, where his father Michel played for football club Paris Saint-Germain. A left-hander, his serve-and-volley style is modelled on that of his idol, Stefan Edberg....
/ ISR
Andy RamAndy Ram is a professional tennis player from Israel, and the first Israeli tennis player to win a seniors Grand Slam event ....
, 3–6, 6–4, 7–5
Girls' Doubles
DEN
Eva Dyrberg / CRO
Jelena KostanicJelena Kostanić Tošić is a professional female tennis player from Croatia. At July 26, 2004 she reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 32...
def. SLO
Petra RamprePetra Rampra is a professional female tennis player from Slovenia. She turned professional in 1996 and reached a career high ranking of World No...
/ UZB
Iroda TulyaganovaIroda Tulyaganova is a professional tennis player who comes from Uzbekistan.She has been ranked as high as #16 on the WTA Tour and has won three WTA singles titles in her career...
, 6–2, 7–6(5)
Men's Singles
- USA Pete 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 men's singles titles, and had a 203–38 win-loss record over 52 Grand Slam singles tournament appearances....
(Champion)
- CHI Marcelo Rios
Marcelo Andrés Ríos Mayorga is a retired and former World No. 1 tennis player from Chile. Nicknamed El Chino and El zurdo de Vitacura , he became the first Latin American player to reach the top position on the Association of Tennis Professionals singles rankings in 1998. He held the World No...
(First Round, lost to Francisco ClavetFrancisco Javier Clavet González is a former tennis player from Spain.-Singles career titles:* 1990 - Hilversum* 1995 - Palermo* 1996 - Amsterdam* 1997 - Bogotá and Mexico City* 1998 - Bucharest and Santiago de Chile...
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- CZE Petr Korda
Petr Korda is a former professional tennis player from the Czech Republic. He is best known for winning the Australian Open in 1998 and for becoming the first well-known player to be suspended for ingesting a banned substance shortly thereafter.-Career:Korda was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.He...
(Quarterfinals, lost to Tim HenmanTimothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE is an retired professional tennis player. 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 semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's...
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- GBR Greg Rusedski
Gregory "Greg" Rusedski is a former British Canadian tennis player who turned professional in 1991, and played until his retirement on 7 April 2007, at the age of 33....
(First Round, lost to Mark DraperMark Draper is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder and represented England at under-21 level....
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- ESP Carlos Moyà
Carlos Moya Llompart is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Spain. He was the French Open singles champion in 1998 and was the singles runner-up at the 1997 Australian Open. In 2004, he helped his country win the Davis Cup. He currently resides in Switzerland...
(Second Round, lost to Hicham AraziHicham Arazi is a male tennis player from Morocco. He played professionally from 1993 to the end of the 2007. The left-hander reached his highest singles ranking in the ATP Tour on November 5, 2001, when he reached number 22 in the world. During his career, Arazi captured one singles title, in...
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- AUS Patrick Rafter
Patrick "Pat" Michael Rafter is a retired Australian former World No. 1 tennis player. He twice won the men's singles title at the US Open and was twice the runner-up at Wimbledon. Rafter was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006...
(Fourth Round, lost to Tim HenmanTimothy Henry "Tim" Henman OBE is an retired professional tennis player. 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 semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's...
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- RUS Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov is a retired and 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...
(First Round, lost to Mark PhilippoussisMark Anthony Philippoussis is an Australian tennis player. He turned professional in 1994. His father is Greek, while his mother is of Italian ancestry but speaks Greek.....
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- FRA Cédric Pioline
Cédric Pioline is a retired French professional tennis player who played on the professional tour from 1989 to 2002. He reached the men's singles final at the 1993 US Open and at Wimbledon in 1997...
(First Round, lost to Marc RossetMarc Rosset is a former professional tennis player from Switzerland who is best remembered for winning the men's singles Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympic Games....
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- NED 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, in Sampras's only singles defeat at Wimbledon between 1993...
(Semifinals, lost to Goran IvaniševićGoran Ivanišević is a former professional tennis player from Croatia. 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...
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- ESP Alex Corretja
Àlex Corretja 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...
(First Round, lost to Justin GimelstobJustin Jeremy Gimelstob is a retired American tennis player. He won the 1998 Australian Open and French Open mixed doubles titles with Venus Williams as his partner...
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Women's Singles
- SUI Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
(Semifinals, lost to Jana NovotnáJana 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...
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- USA Lindsay 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...
(Quarterfinals, lost to Nathalie TauziatNathalie Tauziat is a former professional tennis player from France. She was the runner-up in women's singles at the 1998 Wimbledon Championships. Her career-high singles ranking was third in 2000....
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- CZE 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...
(Champion)
- GER Steffi Graf
Stefanie Maria Graf is a former World No. 1 female tennis player from Germany.Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24...
(Third Round, lost to Natasha ZverevaNatalya "Natasha" Zvereva is a retired tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she'd be able to keep her tournament earnings...
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- ESP Arantxa Sánchez
Aránzazu Arantxa Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...
(Quarterfinals, lost to Martina HingisMartina Hingis is a retired professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles...
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- USA Monica 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, Yugoslavia to Hungarian parents and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994...
(Quarterfinals, lost to Natasha ZverevaNatalya "Natasha" Zvereva is a retired tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she'd be able to keep her tournament earnings...
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- USA Venus Williams
Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate occasions; as of October 19, 2009, she is ranked World No. 4...
(Quarterfinals, lost to Jana NovotnáJana 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...
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- ESP Conchita Martínez
Inmaculada Concepción Martínez Bernat is a former professional tennis player from Monzón, Aragón, Spain. She is the only Spanish woman to have won the singles title at Wimbledon, when she beat Martina Navrátilová in the 1994 Women's Singles...
(Third Round, lost to Samantha SmithSamantha Smith was the number 1 ranked British ladies tennis player from 1996-1999, and now commentates on the game, predominantly for the BBC and Sky Sports.She currently lives in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex...
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- RSA Amanda Coetzer
Amanda Coetzer is the most accomplished female professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...
(Second Round, lost to Naoko SawamatsuNaoko Sawamatsu is a former professional tennis player whose highest career singles ranking was World No. 14 on 6 February 1995....
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- ROM Irina Spîrlea
Irina Spîrlea is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world...
(Fourth Round, lost to Jana NovotnáJana 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...
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