4 best US Open women's finals in the Open Era

#1 Steffi Graf vs Monica Seles (1995)

Steffi Graf with the 1995 US Open trophy

Monica Seles came into the 1995 US Open in what was only her second tournament since a two and a half year absence from the tour. She had been sidelined since April 1993, when she was stabbed in Hamburg by a maniac.

Steffi Graf too faced problems of her own as she had to repeatedly duck the German press who wanted her reaction to the allegations that her father Peter Graf did not pay tax on her earnings.

In fact, Graf's worries were compounded as she was forced to get an MRI done the day before the final on her aching foot.

At 6-5 in the first set tiebreak, Seles thought she had the set with an ace, but a late call from the chair umpire meant that wasn't to be the case. Graf saved the set point and eventually took the set.

Seles bagelled Graf in the second set, winning it in just under half an hour. With Graf serving at 5-3, 40-15 in the decider, Seles belted a forehand winner off a service return to stay in contention.

But Graf had the last laugh as she won her second match point to win her 18th Grand Slam title. She described the result as the most satisfying of all the Grand Slam titles that she had won until then.