1993 Citizen Cup

1993 Citizen Cup
Date	April 26 – May 2
Edition	7th
Category	Tier II tournament
Surface	Clay / outdoor
Location	Hamburg, Germany
Champions
Singles
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Doubles
Steffi Graf / Rennae Stubbs

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 an Tier II tournament on the 1993 WTA Tour. The tournament took place from April 26 to May 2 at DTB Rothenbaum Turnier GmbH, in Hamburg, Germany.

This 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.^[1] Seles would not return to professional tennis until August 1995 following the incident, and never played in Germany again.

Entrants

Seeds

Country	Player	Ranking	Seeding
YUG	Monica Seles	1	1
GER	Steffi Graf	2	2
ESP	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	3	3
CZE	Jana Novotná	9	4
SUI	Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere	11	5
GER	Anke Huber	10	6
BUL	Magdalena Maleeva	14	7
BUL	Katerina Maleeva	17	8

Other entrants

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:

• Petra Begerow
• Beate Reinstadler
• Maria Strandlund

The following players received entry from a Lucky loser spot:

• Elena Brioukhovets

Champions

Singles

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario def. Steffi Graf, 6–3, 6–3.

• It was Sánchez Vicario's fourth title of the year, and the twelfth of her career.

Doubles

Steffi Graf / Rennae Stubbs def. Larisa Neiland / Jana Novotná, 6–4, 7–6^(7–5).

References

1. "1993: Tennis star stabbed". On This Day 30 April 1993 (BBC). 1993-04-30. Retrieved 2009-03-07.

External links

• 1993 Citizen Cup on ITFtennis.com