1999 French Open

1999 French Open
Date	24 May - 6 June
Edition	98th
Category	Grand Slam (ITF)
Surface	Clay
Location	Paris (XVI^e), France
Venue	Stade Roland Garros
Champions
Men's Singles
Andre Agassi
Women's Singles
Steffi Graf
Men's Doubles
Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes
Women's Doubles
Serena Williams / Venus Williams
Mixed Doubles
Piet Norval / Katarina Srebotnik
Boys' Singles
Guillermo Coria
Girls' Singles
Lourdes Domínguez Lino
Boys' Doubles
Irakli Labadze / Lovro Zovko
Girls' Doubles
Flavia Pennetta / Roberta Vinci

The 1999 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 24 May until 6 June. It was the 98th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1999.

Seniors

Men's singles

Andre Agassi^[1] defeated Andrei Medvedev, 1–6, 2–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–4

• It was Agassi's 4th career Grand Slam singles title and his 1st and only title at the French Open.

Women's singles

Steffi Graf defeated Martina Hingis, 4–6, 7–5, 6–2

• It was Graf's 22nd and last career Grand Slam singles title and her 6th title at the French Open.

Men's doubles

Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes defeated Goran Ivanišević / Jeff Tarango, 6–2, 7–5

• It was Bhupathi's 1st career Grand Slam doubles title.

• It was Paes' 1st career Grand Slam doubles title.

Women's doubles

Serena Williams / Venus Williams defeated Martina Hingis / Anna Kournikova, 6–3, 6–7^(2–7), 8–6

• It was S. Williams' 1st career Grand Slam doubles title.

• It was V. Williams' 1st career Grand Slam doubles title.

Mixed doubles

Katarina Srebotnik / Piet Norval defeated Larisa Neiland / Rick Leach, 6–3, 3–6, 6–3

• It was Srebotnik's 1st career Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

• It was Norval's 1st and only career Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

Juniors

Boys' singles

Guillermo Coria^[2] def. David Nalbandian, 6–4, 6–3

Girls' singles

Lourdes Domínguez Lino defeated Stéphanie Foretz, 6–4, 6–4

Boys' doubles

Irakli Labadze / Lovro Zovko defeated Kristian Pless / Olivier Rochus, 6–1, 7–6

Girls' doubles

Flavia Pennetta / Roberta Vinci defeated Mia Buric / Kim Clijsters, 7–5, 5–7, 6–4

Singles players

Men's Singles

• Men's Singles

Champion		Runner-up
Andre Agassi (13)		Andrei Medvedev
Semifinals out
Dominik Hrbatý		Fernando Meligeni
Quarterfinals out
M Ríos (9)	M Filippini	À Corretja (6)	G Kuerten (8)
4th Round out
M Safin	A Berasategui	C Moyá (4)	G Rusedski (12)
S Koubek	F Mantilla (14)	B Ulihrach	A di Pasquale
3rd Round out
A Ilie	H Arazi	A Costa	T Henman (7)
S Sargsian	C Woodruff	D Sanguinetti	V Spadea
G Gaudio	S Grosjean	T Haas	P Rafter (3)
S Schalken	A Gaudenzi	C Ruud	B Black
2nd Round out
Y Kafelnikov (1)	M Rodríguez	J Knippschild	J Courier
A Boetsch	A Calleri	S Huet	J Novák
P Korda	W Ferreira	N Lapentti	A Clément
R Fromberg	H Gumy	M Damm	R Krajicek (5)
F Vicente	B Karbacher	Á López Morón	M Larsson
M Puerta	M Navarra	Y El Aynaoui	N Escudé
G Cañas	F Clavet	M Hantschk	J Stoltenberg
T Enqvist (16)	M Mirnyi	A Portas	P Sampras (2)
1st Round out
M Chang	J Boutter	J Björkman	L Hewitt
L Roux	J Krošlák	Á Calatrava	G Ivanišević (15)
A Pretzsch	Sabău	D Vacek	M Gustafsson
W Black	H Dreekmann	D Nestor	K Alami
M Hipfl	A Martín	K Carlsen	J-R Lisnard
T Muster	D Moyano	C Pioline	F Squillari
D Prinosil	A Dupuis	J van Lottum	A Pavel
L Tieleman	N Kiefer	M Woodforde	J-M Gambill
G Puentes	J Tarango	M Norman	O Gross
G Raoux	T Woodbridge	F Santoro	K Kučera (11)
R Gilbert	G Pozzi	M Rosset	S Draper
J Gimelstob	X Malisse	P Luxa	R Federer
G Blanco	J Siemerink	P Haarhuis	J Alonso
R Schüttler	V Voltchkov	R Delgado	M Philippoussis (10)
H Moretti	C Costa	C Rochus	M Zabaleta
A Voinea	C Mamiit	D Pescariu	J A Marín

Notes

1. Agassi became only the fifth male player in history to complete a Career Slam, and the first to ever win all four Grand Slam tournaments on different surfaces.
2. Coria reached the 2004 Men's Singles final, but lost to Gastón Gaudio.

External links

• French Open official website