1996 Champion Steffi Graf Runner-up Monica Seles Singles men | Champion Martina Hingis Final score 6–2, 6–1 Doubles men | |
Steffi Graf was the defending champion but did not compete that year.
Martina Hingis won in the final 6–2, 6–1 against Monica Seles. At 16 years and 6 months, Hingis becoming the youngest World no. 1 player in the history of WTA. This marked the first time that neither Graf, Seles nor Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was ranked No. 1 since August 17, 1987.
Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. All thirty-two seeds received a bye to the second round.
References
1997 Lipton Championships – Women's Singles Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA