1999 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles
Lindsay Davenport defeated Steffi Graf in the final, 6–4, 7–5 to win the ladies' singles tennis title at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. This was the final Grand Slam tournament in which Graf appeared. Davenport did not drop a set throughout the entire tournament. Jana Novotná was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Davenport. This tournament saw a number of surprises, including world No. 129 Australian qualifier Jelena Dokic's first-round defeat of world No. 1 and top seed Martina Hingis; before this event, Hingis had reached the semifinals of every  Grand Slam event since the 1996 US Open, 11 consecutive majors. This tournament also saw Alexandra Stevenson become only the second qualifier, after Christine Matison in the 1978 Australian Open, to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam in the Open Era, defeating Dokic in the quarterfinals. A qualifier would not reach this stage of a Grand Slam tournament until Nadia Podoroska of Argentina did so at the 2020 French Open. This tournament also marked the Grand Slam debut of eventual No. 1 Kim Clijsters, who lost to Graf in the fourth round. Mirjana Lučić, who reached the semifinals, did  not reach another Grand Slam semifinal until the 2017 Australian Open. Seeds. Martina Hingis "(first round)" Serena Williams withdrew due to a flu and high fever. She was replaced in the draw by the highest-ranked non-seeded player Anna Kournikova, who became the #17 seed.