The Citizen Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the seventh edition of the Citizen Cup and was a Tier II tournament on the 1993 WTA Tour. The tournament took place from 26 April to 2 May 1993 at the Am Rothenbaum venue, in Hamburg, Germany.
1993 Citizen Cup | |
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Date | 26 April – 2 May |
Edition | 7th |
Category | Tier II tournament |
Draw | 32S / 16D |
Prize money | $375,000 |
Surface | Clay / outdoor |
Location | Hamburg, Germany |
Venue | Am Rothenbaum |
Champions | |
Singles | |
Doubles | |
Seles stabbing
editThis tournament would later attract infamy for being the location where then World No. 1 Monica Seles was stabbed during a singles quarterfinal match with then World No. 14 Magdalena Maleeva by an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf, Günter Parche. The stabbing prompted an increase in security at subsequent tennis events.[2] Seles would not return to professional tennis until August 1995 following the incident, and never played in Germany again.
Entrants
editSeeds
editCountry | Player | Ranking | Seeding |
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Monica Seles | 1 | 1 | |
Steffi Graf | 2 | 2 | |
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | 3 | 3 | |
Jana Novotná | 9 | 4 | |
Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere | 11 | 5 | |
Anke Huber | 10 | 6 | |
Magdalena Maleeva | 14 | 7 | |
Katerina Maleeva | 17 | 8 |
Other entrants
editThe following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following players received entry from a Lucky loser spot:
Finals
editSingles
edit Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated
Steffi Graf, 6–3, 6–3
- It was Sánchez Vicario's fourth title of the year, and the twelfth of her career.
Doubles
edit Steffi Graf /
Rennae Stubbs defeated
Larisa Neiland /
Jana Novotná, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)
References
edit- ^ a b "WTA tournament archive" (PDF). www.wtatennis.com. Women's Tennis Association (WTA).
- ^ "1993: Tennis star stabbed". On This Day 30 April 1993. BBC. 1993-04-30. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
External links
edit- ITF tournament edition details Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine