The 1999 Betty Barclay Cup 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 outdoor clay courts

Clay court

A clay court is one of the four different types of tennis court. Clay courts are made of crushed shale, stone or brick. The red clay is slower than the green, or Har-Tru "American" clay. The French Open uses clay courts, making it unique among the Grand Slam tournaments.Clay courts are more common...

 at the Am Rothenbaum

Am Rothenbaum

Am Rothenbaum is the site of the main tennis court of the Hamburg Masters tournament, played in the Rotherbaum quarter of Hamburg, Germany.Tennis has been played in Rotherbaum since 1927...

 in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 that was part of Tier II of the 1999 WTA Tour

1999 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 April 26 through May 2, 1999.

Seeds

Country	Player	Rank	Seed
Czech Republic	Jana Novotná 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. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...	4	1
United States	Venus Williams Venus Williams Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...	7	2
Spain	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...	6	3
France	Mary Pierce Mary Pierce Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...	8	4
France	Nathalie Tauziat Nathalie Tauziat Nathalie 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....	11	5
Belgium	Dominique Van Roost Dominique Monami Dominique Monami is a former Belgian professional female tennis player.In 1995, she married her coach Bart Van Roost, with whom she has a daughter, and played under the name Dominique Van Roost until their divorce in 2003.Her biggest achievement came during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where...	15	6
South Africa	Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...	16	7
Spain	Conchita Martínez 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. She also was the singles runner-up at the 1998...	19	8

Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: Andrea Glass

Andrea Glass

Andrea Glass is a professional German tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 53rd, which she reached on 1 February 1999, the year in which she reached the third round of the Australian Open, where Anna Kournikova beat her 4-6 6-2 6-3...

 Julia Abe
The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw: Julia Abe /   Jana Kandarr

Jana Kandarr

Jana Kandarr is a former German professional tennis player. Kandarr is notable for playing with her right hand, even though she is left-handed....

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

Marion Maruska

Marion Maruska

Marion Maruska is an Austrian female professional tennis player. She turned professional in 1992 and reached her career high singles ranking on October 6, 1997, when she became the No...

 Anca Barna

Anca Barna

Anca Barna is a retired professional German tennis player. Barna turned professional in 1992 and retired in 2005. On 12 April 2004, Barna reached her highest singles ranking: World Number 46. Her highest doubles ranking came on on 21 April 1997, when she became World Number 119. In her career, she...

 Elena Dementieva

Elena Dementieva

Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a...

 Jana Nejedly

Jana Nejedly

Jana Nejedly is a professional Canadian tennis player.Nejedly's highest WTA singles ranking is 64th, which she reached on October 2, 2000. Her career high in doubles was at 227 set at August 12, 1996....

Sandra Nacuk /   Sylvia Plischke

Sylvia Plischke

Sylvia Plischke is a former professional tennis player from Austria. Her career high ranking was No. 27 in the world, achieved in 1999.-Biography:...

Singles

  Venus Williams

Venus Williams

Venus Ebony Starr Williams is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 and is ranked World No. 101 as of 10 October 2011 in singles and World No. 20 in doubles as of 2011. She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate...

defeated   Mary Pierce

Mary Pierce

Mary Pierce is a French-American tennis professional playing on the Women's Tennis Association tour. She is a citizen of France, Canada, and the United States but plays for France in team competitions and the Olympics.Pierce has won four Grand Slam titles, two in singles and two in doubles...

 6–0, 6–3

• It was Williams' 4th title of the year and the 11th of her career.

Doubles

  Larisa Neiland

Larisa Neiland

Larisa Savchenko Neiland is a former tennis player who represented Latvia. A former number-one ranked doubles player, Neiland won two women's doubles Grand Slam titles. She also won two singles titles and sixty-five doubles titles.-Career:Neiland turned professional in 1983...

/   Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...

defeated   Amanda Coetzer

Amanda Coetzer

Amanda Coetzer is a former professional tennis player from South Africa.Coetzer turned professional in 1988 and retired in 2004...

 /   Jana Novotná

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. She won the women's singles title at Wimbledon in 1998 and was runner-up in three previous Grand Slam tournaments...

6–2, 6–1

• It was Neiland's 2nd title of the year and the 69th of her career. It was Sánchez Vicario's 3rd title of the year and the 87th of her career.