What nationality was the woman who was first-seeded and won the singles title in The 1997 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix?
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1997 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix The 1997 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Filderstadt Tennis Club in Filderstadt in Germany that was part of Tier II of the 1997 WTA Tour. It was the 20th edition of the tournament and was held from 6 October through 12 October 1997. First-seeded Martina Hingis won the singles title, her second consecutive at the event.
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Martina Hingis Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player, a former world No. 1 singles player and currently ranked world No. 2 in doubles by the WTA. She has spent a total of 209 weeks as the singles No. 1 and has won five Grand Slam singles titles, thirteen Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar-year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and seven Grand Slam mixed doubles titles; for a combined total of twenty-five major titles. In addition, she has won the season-ending WTA Championships two times in singles and three times in doubles, and an Olympic silver medal.
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1997 ANZ Tasmanian International The 1997 ANZ Tasmanian International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart in Australia that was part of Tier IV of the 1997 WTA Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 6 through 12 January 1997. Dominique Van Roost won the singles title.
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1997 Bank of the West Classic – Singles Martina Hingis was the defending champion and won in the final 6–0, 6–2 against Conchita Martínez.
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1998 EA-Generali Ladies Linz – Singles Chanda Rubin was the defending champion but did not compete that year.
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1996 WTA Tour Championships – Singles Steffi Graf was the defending champion and won in the final 6–3, 4–6, 6–0, 4–6, 6–0 against Martina Hingis.
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2014 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – Singles Maria Sharapova won a third title in a row, defeating Ana Ivanovic in the final, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1.
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Ľudmila Cervanová Ľudmila Cervanová (Ludmila Cervanova) (born 15 October 1979 in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia) is a retired professional female tennis player from Slovakia. She turned professional in 1997.
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1997 Chase Championships The 1997 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 26th edition of the year-end singles championships, the 22nd edition of the year-end doubles championships, and was part of the 1997 WTA Tour. The tournament was held November 17–23, 1997.
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1997 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon – Singles Yevgeny Kafelnikov was the defending champion, but lost in the semifinals this year.
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1985 French Open – Women's Singles Chris Evert defeated Martina Navratilova 6–3, 6–7, 7–5 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1985 French Open.
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1997 Páginas Amarillas Open – Singles Jana Novotná was the defending champion and won in the final 7–5, 6–1 against Monica Seles.
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1998 Prokom Polish Open – Singles Henrieta Nagyová won in the final 6–3, 5–7, 6–1 against Elena Wagner.
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1996 du Maurier Open – Women's Singles Monica Seles was the defending champion and won in the final 6–1, 7–6 against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.
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1997 European Indoors – Doubles Martina Hingis and Helena Suková were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Hingis with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Suková with Larisa Savchenko.
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1995 French Open – Women's Singles Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the defending champion, but she was defeated in the final by Steffi Graf. Sánchez Vicario lost the World No. 1 ranking to Graf following this tournament, and would never recapture it.
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Irina Spîrlea Irina Spîrlea (born 26 March 1974) is a Romanian former tennis player who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. Spîrlea reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on 13 October 1997, when she became number 7 in the world. She retired in 2000.
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1973 French Open – Women's Singles Reigning champion Billie-Jean King did not defend her title. Margaret Court defeated Chris Evert 6–7, 7–6, 6–4 (in her first appearance at the French Open) in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1973 French Open.
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1996 WTA German Open The 1996 WTA German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin in Germany that was part of Tier I of the 1996 WTA Tour. It was the 25th edition of the tournament and was held from 13 May through 19 May 1996. Steffi Graf won the singles title.
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Caroline Schneider Caroline Schneider (born 1 June 1973) is a German professional tennis player. During her career, she won several titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
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1998 Swisscom Challenge – Singles Lindsay Davenport was the defending champion and won in the final 7–5, 6–3 against Venus Williams.
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2001 Eurocard Ladies German Open The 2001 Eurocard Ladies German Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Rot-Weiss Tennis Club in Berlin in Germany and was part of Tier I of the 2001 WTA Tour. It was the 30th edition of the tournament and ran from 7 May through 13 May 2001. Fourth-seeded Amélie Mauresmo won the singles title.