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1998 Chase Championships

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Category
  
Year-end championships

Prize money
  
$2,000,000

Draw
  
16S/8D

Surface
  
Carpet / indoor

Date
  
November 16 – November 22

Edition
  
27th (singles) / 23rd (doubles)

The 1998 Chase Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York in the United States. It was the 27th edition of the year-end singles championships, the 23rd edition of the year-end doubles championships, and was part of the 1998 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from November 16 through November 22, 1998. Martina Hingis won the singles title and earned $500,000 first-prize money. It was the last edition of the tournament to be played in the best-of-five-set format for the final which it had used since 1984.

Contents

Women's Singles

Martina Hingis defeated Lindsay Davenport 7–5, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2

  • It was Hingis' 14th title of the year and the 39th of her career.
  • Women's Doubles

    Lindsay Davenport / Natasha Zvereva defeated Alexandra Fusai / Nathalie Tauziat 6–7, 7–5, 6–3

  • It was Davenport's 12th title of the year and the 43rd of her career. It was Zvereva's 8th title of the year and the 81st of her career.
  • References

    1998 Chase Championships Wikipedia