NEW YORK (AP) -- At least three former winners will show up for the Chase Championships next week. But only defending champion Martina Hingis will have a chance to be playing in the final of the season-ending $2 million tournament.

Steffi Graf, who captured the Madison Square Garden event five times, the last in 1996, will be honored Tuesday night. The 30-year-old Graf retired this summer after becoming only the fourth person -- and third woman -- to win more than 100 professional titles.

Jana Novotna, the 1997 Chase champion, also retired and will be honored at the Garden.

Monica Seles, who won three consecutive titles, beginning in 1990, qualified for the elite 16-player field, but withdrew with a stress fracture of her right foot.

Hingis, however, won't lack for contenders, beginning with last year's runner-up, second-seeded Lindsay Davenport. Then there are the Williams sisters -- third-seeded Venus and fourth-seeded Serena -- and five French women.

No. 5 Mary Pierce is the highest seeded member of the Gallic contingent. The others are No. 6 Nathalie Tauziat, No. 8 Julie Halard-Decugis, No. 10 Amelie Mauresmo and No. 14 Sandrine Testud.

The first-round pairings, decided Thursday in a draw conducted at the Advanta Championships in Philadelphia, pit the top-seeded Hingis against Testud, Davenport against Mauresmo, Venus Williams against Spain's Conchita Martinez, Serena Williams against Dominique Van Roost of Belgium, Pierce against Anna Kournikova of Russia, Tauziat against South African Amanda Coetzer, No. 7 Barbara Schett of Austria against the final qualifier and Halard-Decugis against Germany's Anke Huber.

The final spot in the field will be determined by this week's Advanta Championships, being played in Philadelphia. The spot could be filled by Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Amy Frazier or Jennifer Capriati.

The Williams sisters and Schett will be making their Chase Championships debuts.

Hingis and Kournikova are the top-seeded doubles team, with Davenport and Corina Morariu seeded No. 2.

However, the unseeded Williams sisters are probably heavily favored since they won the title at both the French and U.S. Opens, skipping Wimbledon. Their first-round match will be against the Davenport-Morariu team, which won Wimbledon.