Steffi Graf Amelia Island final on clay, Graf lost her first match of the year to Sabatini but returned to European clay with easy victories at Hamburg and Berlin. Graf's Grand Slam tournament winning streak ended at the French Open, where 17-year-old Spaniard Arantxa Sánchez Vicario beat Graf in three sets. Graf served for the match at 5–3 in the third set but lost the game and won only three more points in the match. Suffering from food poisoning, she had struggled to beat Monica Seles in their semifinal 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 and said that she had had menstrual cramps in the
1993 US Open (tennis) 1993 US Open (tennis) The 1993 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City in New York in the United States. It was the 113th edition of the US Open and was held from August 30 to September 12, 1993. Pete Sampras defeated Cédric Pioline 6–4, 6–4, 6–3 Steffi Graf defeated Helena Suková 6–3, 6–3 Ken Flach / Rick Leach defeated Karel Nováček / Martin Damm 6–7, 6–4, 6–2 Arantxa Sánchez Vicario / Helena Suková defeated Amanda Coetzer / Inés Gorrochategui 6–4, 6–2 Helena Suková / Todd