Monica Seles vs Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 1992 US Open Highlights
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- Monica Seles vs Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 1992 US Open Final Highlights. Full match uploaded by adar601278 so thank you. If you like my highlights please consider making a donation to my paypal www.paypal.me/... really grateful for whatever you can give during these covid hit times.
The angles Seles produced throughout the whole match is art.❤️
Monica won AU 91-92-93 RG 90-91-92 US 91-92 WTA FINALS 90-91-92 before turning 20 , she was stunning. I stil hate 30 April 93, the day that change female tennis hystory!
I totally agree with you! The most unfair incident in Tennis history as Steffi went on to win half of her Grand Slam titles after that tragedy!
In fact she did all of this before at the age of 18. Add the AO93 at the age of barely 19. Then stabbing in what could've been her potentially year Slam.
me too😌😌😌
So true... tennis lost more than one of the best but also its real path, imo
Did she ever win Wimbledon?
Those cross court angles of Seles are amazing. 7GS in her teens. Unbelievable. Would-have-been GOAT.
yves ordonio 👍
Yes those angles we're superb, however she was robbed from major titles after Hamburg.
She is goat
8GS in her teens no ? Unless you meant this was her 7th... but then she won the AO 93 at the age of nineTEEN
A lot of people often talked about how Hingis anticipated the ball extremely well. I don't think Seles got enough credit for her anticipation because she was also tremendous at that as well. Combine that with her amazing balance and court positioning, one can see why she was so successful.
Yes, of all the goat level / top 20 all time, I think only evert, Hingis and Goolagong would be more naturally gifted and intuitive than Seles. People see her as a ball brasher, but I think she’s a more natural, instinctive player than even the top 3 players of Martina, Graf and Serena.
@@Ineddiblehulk She definitely is not just a ball basher. Don't get me wrong, she can bash that ball amazingly well. But her anticipation, ability to see the ball (and react to it) as soon as it's off of her opponents racket, balance, court positioning, and accuracy were all astonishingly good.
@@Ineddiblehulk I agree but I think Martina and Serena are both very intuitive, but just in different ways. Martina had an unbelievable read on the perfect times to attack the net, while she wanted to come in she didn't just kamikaze in on every shot mindlessly, and to read what passing shots an opponent would try, when they would lob. She also knew the perfect time to draw her opponents to the net, out of their comfort zone. Serena had underrated point contruction and intuitive knowledge when to go for a winner while still being relatively safe, and what places to attack her opponent. Graf was the closest to a mindless basher of those.
One of the things that people don't realise about Monica is that she didn't hit the ball at light speed all the time. She was actually an incredibly skilled rallier and brilliant at opening up the court. Once she got an opening or short ball, that's when she usually went for it.
Arantxa is an amazing player. Do not disrepect her because she is a feisty player who never gives up. What a great match. Seles was just too good on that day. Give both players the respect they so deserve.
I am not a fan of Arantxa's game overall. But she produced quality tennis in this match !! Little unforced errors, great court coverage, never-give-up attitude. If it was anyone other than Seles on the other side, Arantxa would very likely be the actual champion that day.
@@elbouiss LOL Sanchez actually had 43 unforced errors in this short 2 set match.
@@ralphbourgeois5875 Why you' re present in most seles videos? What do you want?
Seles was just getting taller and stronger and hitting even harder, many a time in this match she simply had the commentators speechless her angles and power were unmatched.
It was like one of those displays of dominance we would see from Serena years later, but even more special because of Monica’s unique shot production.
Amazing speed on cross court shots from seles.Not many players play cross court this well.
Realistically, Monica had 2-3 more U.S. Opens, 3-4 more French Opens, 3-4 more Australian Opens, and maybe could have won one Wimbledon. It would have been amazing to see how her game would have developed. She was so aggressive in the 93 Aus Open final with her serve and net play. No one will ever be able to hit so accurately with so much pace with such few errors and with her mental fortitude. Love you always, Monica!
Couldn’t agree with you more! 15 GS minimum if not for Germany.
Who knows, maybe if she continued the way she was going, she would've conquered the grass similar to how Sharapova did with clay
@@pjw1980 Yes, so much potential for more success. I think it’s safe to say no one will ever achieve what Monica did as a teenager.
Great comment man.
@@pjw1980 Not agree to your comment.
If the Germany player were not facing blackmailing problems " She might win 50 Single's Grandslam
Monica is above all the others
Por dios esta Seles era imparable, ni Graf podía con ella, precursora de pegadora pero con talento y cabeza, hacía obras de arte con golpes imposibles de responder. Para mí la mejor tenista de la Historia, porque la vida no se portó bien con ella, si no habría sido la mejor de la Historia sin dudar
Monica was able to play incredible angles, Arantxa was a wall, she rejected everything.
Arantxa also benefited from the stabbing. Seles really had her number and it was Monica's absence that gave her the confidence to improve her game.
Casi más que Graf. Porque Steffi ya había sido número 1 y era múltiple ganadora de Grand slams. En cambio Arantxa sólo tenía Roland garros 89 y después de Hamburgo 93 ganó varios y fué número 1. Con Seles en condiciones normales nunca hubiera sucedido.
Monica is relentless no let downs.
What I love about Arantxa the most is that she always made it SO hard to root against her b/c she just worked SO hard, hustled incredibly no matter if she was up or down and always had positive body language. You watched her and knew she'd fight for EVERY point. She wanted her opponents to lose 6-0 6-0 if she could. You knew she didn't have the natural gifts of Seles or Graf but she made you think that hard work could beat talent.
Arantxa tenia buena muñeca, le faltaba más poder. De haber tenido las condiciones de Sabatini habría arrasado.
Monica always hit d ball hard n how she transformed tell us all..being Yugoslavia'd junior champion at d age of 9! n world junior champion at d age of 13!! even Evert n other commentators said they never watch a 15 yr old or any other teenagers play like Seles had played💪💪💪
Love hearing Evert analyze Seles-great insight from one great child prodigy to another one…Seles at her peak of powers
No, she was not at her peak. She was on the ascendancy. Her serve and her volley were much improved just a few months later in Australia.
I never realized that Seles was so tall; she plays low to the ground, so i always assumed she was short.
She lowers her center of gravity to catch the ball at its earliest bounce. Something Serena Williams does as well.
Monica was tiny early in her career (they called her diminutive). Then, came puberty, and she almost grew too much, too fast, to where it took a little time for her game to adjust.
She also had a pretty big serve for her time which kind of go under the radar.
Although this was a straight-sets win in 90 minutes, the crowd got to see some really incredible tennis. Seles had to play her best tennis to overcome Arantxa. They both made amazing shots throughout. Arantxa was a great tennis player - year after year she was in semi-finals and finals (four grand slam wins to her name), but she was regularly up against Graf and Seles who are among the greatest - if not the two greatest (depending on your opinion) - of all time. Aranxta lost five grand slam finals to Graf and two to Seles. Between them, Graf and Seles won every grand slam in '91, '92 '93 and '96, and Graf won 3 in 1995. But for Aranxta's first slam win at the '89 French (over Graf), Graf would have had 9 straight slam wins, from Aussie '88 through Aussie '90. Monica won 8 grand slams before the age of 20 (this was the seventh)! Kind of scary what Aranxta was up against. She remains underappreciated.
I hear you but I’d say she was an incredible overachiever whereas Sabatini, Novotna and Martinez were a bit of an underachiever given their talent. Arantxa won largely on will and foot speed.
@@moviefan4life166 Sabatini was an underachiever. Absolutely.
Aranxta beat prime Graf and Seles for the grandslams titles. Incredible efforts by Barcelona's Bumblebee😍
@@harryrinaldi2812 Seles was no where near her prime in 1998 when Arantxa beat her in a GS final.
@@moviefan4life166 Es que si Sabatini hubiese tenido la actitud de Arantxa, o como bien dices Conchita Martinez, habrían arrasado. Arantxa no tuvo las mismas condiciones, aún así tenía mejor técnica y muñeca de lo que la gente se piensa. Solo corriendo no se puede ganar partidos de tenis.
Peak to peak, Seles is GOAT!
Arantxa was always one of my favorites back then. Unfortunately, she was just maybe 15% not as good as Seles and Graff. She could beat them, but only of they were having off days. Clearly Seles was having an on day during this final.
Excellent win for Seles :)
A Seles en su mejor 👍💯 momento, era muy difícil ganarla.
MONICA,MONICA ,MONICA!!! NO ONE PLAYS WITH MORE HEART & CHUTZPAH THAN SERENA & VENUS & MONICA. I CAN'T HELP TO THINK WHAT MIGHT'VE BEEN WITH MONICA IF THAT NAZI HADN'T STABBED HER & HER LOSING HER DAD. I SAW THAT STABBING LIVE & STAYED IN TOTAL SHOCK. SHE HAD THAT WEAPON I CALL, "PRESENCE," if u knew were going to play her It's the same effect that SERENA has on her opponents NOW, even after having a near-death birth w OLYMPIA. YOU DON'T SLEEP THE NIGHT BEFORE, FOR SURE.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT GIVING UP MEANS. 🐯😉☺🌹
Nazi??????
@@MStar14 pretty much.
So good!!
Let's not forget Arantxa had 10 grand slam double titles to go with her 4 GS single titles.
mamma mia quanto era bella Monica. Pochi lo sottolineano...ma era veramente bellissima (oltre che tennisticamente inarrivabile)
Relentless and merciless, MONIKA
I guess I had forgotten how much Monica was ripping her forehead during this match. Incredible power and angle of that wing when usually it was her backhand that was her more lethal stroke.
Background to this match: Firstly, it was very delayed. The Edberg / Chang match was a marathon and I suspect that Arantxa had prepared for a match to start earlier in the day, and came out flat for this match. Secondly, Arantxa had her first win over Monica a few weeks earlier in Canada. As a result, Monica really was determined not to lose again. It also seems to have added to the pressure on Arantxa as some people were talking about her beating Monica again. Thirdly, Arantxa actually had two coaches at this stage, her regular coach and also the famous Australian, Mervyn Rose. Apparently there was some disagreement between the two about how this match should be played. Mervyn Rose wanted Arantxa to be as aggressive as possible whereas her regular coach felt she needed to be more restrained. The confusion that this caused seems to have really affected Arantxa's performance.
Maybe she could've taken a set at best, maybe a tie-break, but Arantxa's game was not enough to shake Seles. 23-3 head to head. Including two difficult wins post-stab Seles. And I was suprised with the score : Arantxa played beautiful and smart. What else could she have done ? She was mixing aggressiveness with patience/attempting to make Monica make the error. And she succeeded at both. The score line does not give Arantxa justice ! She played good, beautiful and smart. And she caught as many balls as she could. If Seles was not mentally tough, she would've lost cause of frustration. I mean look at Anantxa's movements and sneaky drop shots.
This was an entertaining quality match. But Monica was unstoppable in the big events. I really see no "cure" to beating her is GS and WTA finals there.
@@elbouiss I think the main thing Arantxa could have done better was at the start. It really took her a long time to get going and she looked a little bit asleep. She managed to get going a bit but hit errors on some key points. I was re watching the match they played at the Canadian open a few weeks before, and Arantxa was so much more fired up in that match. I don't know whether nerves or pressure got to her here, but you're definitely right - the odds were very, very much in Monica's favour. Arantxa just didn't have the weapons to bother Monica consistently.
@@zeddeka Thanks for the interesting extra information. I was never a big fan of Arantxa's game. Blame it on Seles, Graf, Hingis... but lately, re-watching her matches, I realise I so underestimated her. It's a bit like for example Ferrer falling in the era of the Big 3/4. Amazing how relativity blurs us sometimes. Her talent is stunning and she never played "cheap" or surrendering. And why the hell would she, when she's that talented !
@@elbouiss No problem! I had this match on old VCR a long time ago, recorded from Sky TV in the UK. Sue Barker used to do some of the commentary and she used to always get a lot of gossip from the locker room - so you got a real insight into what was going on behind the scenes. Something I think which has perhaps been lost - a lot of commentators now don't really talk much about the behind the scenes stuff.
Thanks!
Sanchez Vicario is so out of her league here against Seles. It's a wonder how Arancha beat Steffi in the Quarters at this Open.
Graf had a weaker side. The backhand . Arantxa could expose the slice shot . Monica just blasted with sheer power and accuracy. She had a fairly one dimensional game but was fit enough to cover the court and no player could match her power, intensity and mental ability in 91-early 93. Steffi probably could but didn't get to enough slam finals in seles prime years to challenge her enough . ASV was a very talented and smart player but Monica gobbled up top spin for breakfast . Easy Match up
Steffi played a pretty awful match in the quarters to lose to Sanchez. Sanchez was also playing way better than she did in this final where she had a bad case of the nerves and played nowhere close to her form of the tournament and that summer. Of course Seles is a horrible match up for her too.
shihlin1 Sanchez Vicario beat Seles in Montreal in the Canadian open final before US Open. The win over Seles gave her confidence to beat Graf at US Open. Also in early 1990s Graf more vulnerable she lost to a lot of women.
shihlin1 Seles attacked Sanchez's weak forehand consistently..that's how you play Sanchez..
Arancha didn't have the talent of her main rivals, but she was always a tough oponent and she was able to defeat Graf and Seles several times at their primes.
She was probably the best defensive player able, very fast and with a great backhand. Unfortunately her forehand and her serve weren't that good.
Mentally she was tough as a rock wich explains why she was able to compete against two of the best players ever (who were very strong mentally too)
Pretty remarkable that in a slam final, the commentators have to resort to a Top 5 player making the match competitive as some sort of achievement. Kudos to Tony Trabert, who appreciated Monica’s brilliance.
At 18 yrs old - 7 grand slam titles WOW
ASV was very classy in defeat.
Yes, she was. Arantxa was very likeable and an entertaining match player.
This match was much closer than the score.
Arantxa's weak forehand deprived her of two dozen singles titles more, including several Grand Slam wins... and Monica Seles is the example of what Nirvana sang: "better burn out than fade away". Since she was stabbed in Hamburg and spent 2 years without playing tennis, her many fans like to speculate that "she could have been the GOAT" conveniently forgeting that she played 8 more years and only won another GS - and no, you can't blame the stabbing for that: not a single of the injuries Seles had throughout her career were shoulder-related.
The most important damage the stabbing incident had on her was that she spent the two years she could have won the most out of the courts. In 1993 she was competing against the likes of Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario, Jana Novotna, Conchita Martínez (and of course Graff); when she came back there were a lot of young players such as Hingis, Williams, Davenport, Klijsters, Henin... players who hit the ball way, way harder (or with a better placement, such as Hingis), and she struggled to move the ball around the court and find the angles she did so easily against players such as Arancha.
Maybe. But I would bet my house that during the 2.5 year hiatus Seles had from the tour she would have retained her AO, FO and UO easily. She would probably have dominated for another couple years after if not for carrying the extra weight. Obviously we will never know but we were denied some epic potential Graf/Seles battles as a result. Tennis was robbed.
@@pjw1980 She could have won 4-6 more grand slams, probably.
@@rafarequeni822 don’t be so ridiculous.
Monica was never the same when she came back. We will never know what would have happened. What I regret most is not seeing how the Graf Seles rivalry would have played out without the stabbing. It probably would not have been as epic and Navratilova vs Evert, but the FO '92 and AO '93 were amazing matches with both at their best. Would have been great to see a few more years of that. In my opinion, Steffi only got better with age. Monica never came back to who she was and that was the shame of it all.
Monica Seles hit him as hard as now, but do you know the difference? That her blows went inside and adjusted, not like now that they hit hard but most of the time to see where the blow goes.
Nobody has ever hit the ball with the accuracy of Monica, and nobody ever will.
those topspin forehands just gave Seles too much time to get to the ball and did a lot of damage. Against a different player it might have worked forcing unforced errors but Seles is just too good especially during her prime here.
Sanchez became much stronger in the next years. In 1992 was an excellent player, but unable to compete with Seles, with THIS Seles...However beautiflul match!
Why is the score not on screen? We didn't know till the beginning of the second set that Seles was 5-0 up in the first set, but only won it 6-3! Knowing the score wd have increased the tension.
Because back on the day, they didn't show it.
Lepotica nasa je najbolja bila❤️
Arantxa muy defensiva, Monica muy agresiva, Steffi muy dominante, con algunos problemas
Didn't really think the crowd got behind Monica at all.... some of those ground strokes back then were insane!!!!
A lot of it was the controversy involving Donald Trump and her alleged romance with him the previous year. In the U.S she was never going to be popular bar being stabbed, otherwise I doubt she ever has much fans there. Americans are very judgemental and when you pick up a reputation for something early, it is hard to dispell it.
harvey wolfe what on earth? Donald Trump? Seles is a dirty girl she like older rich men. Someone tell her she is professional tennis player and not a mail order bride
@@harveywolfe8787 it was much more than that - she was deeply unpopular in most countries because she'd gained a reputation as being a bit of a brat who thought she was bigger than the game. Her withdrawal from Wimbledon in 1991 without explanation at the time, and doing a strange photo shoot when she was supposedly injured, won her no favours. The other players also heartily disliked her. At the 1989 French open on her debut she upset zina garrison by handing out flowers to the crowd. The impression people had was that she thought she was a real diva and the world revolved around her.
Monica was very unpopular with the public across the world in those days. The general view was that she was a brat who thought the world revolved around her.
@@rolandgreen7484 Why you' re present in most seles videos? What do you want?
Reminds me of Sampras 7:54 10:33
It's hard to see the potential ability in this unsatisfactory match by either player here. Seles was a bit sloppy here and ASV simply did not play smart to threaten Seles. Seles was definitely the best of the year but ASV was replacing Sabatini to challenge Graf and Seles a lot more in 1992. Any other match would be appreciated, esp. Montreal and Barcelona finals.
sanchez Vicario is just too fast in chasing the balls but she's not impressive enough..Monica Seles is too slow but she had that peripheral vision where her opponent put the ball,that's why she can easily managed to hit the ball well and had some strategies where to put the ball..
Martina Navratilova also said that while Monica wasn't especially fast, she seemed to have very long arms. She could reach out and get shots without having to move so much.
Looking at who likely would have been contending with Serena for GOAT. Awesome career regardless.
Such a didappointing final to probably the worst women's Tournament of the 1990s at the US Open. Monica had been somewhat vulnerable coming in to the tournament, not having won anything for 14 weeks and she had also been suffering from a heavy cold. That stretch included very flat performances against Graf at Wimbledon, Navratilova in LA and a tired looking first ever loss against Arantxa in Canada. The 1991 tournament had been amazing, but none of Monica's main competitors really showed up in 1992. Martina Navratilova played terribly and lost early. Capriati flopped in an early round. Gabriela Sabatini had taken a long sabatical after Wimbledon and was already in the long drought that wouldn't see her win anything for another two years. Steffi Graf looked like she didn't want to be there and lost an error strewn match to Arantxa in the quarter finals. Arantxa had perhaps been the form player that summer but played a confused and nervous match here.
Here Seles screams & grunts yet no one has any problem
lulu because Monica’s wasn’t as bad as sharapova’s, muguruza’s, halep’s, and Sabalenka’s. Plus at Wimbledon when people did complain about Seles’ grunt it was because it was much louder in Wimbledon than in the us open
These are very toned down grunts . Watch her at the Canadian Open 92 where she lost she started screaming , and then after the stabbing, the screams got extremely loud . Some of her grunts were compared to freight trains but again the lovely UK Media
@@user-ex8kc3kp6s wrong . There are matches in the early 2000s were Seles grunts were going a step too far. I know she always made noise but they stopped becoming grunts they became literally screaming but she was taught that , she made a noise that double scream but it was quiet at first but once you get a big name coach and you become number 1 which she did it became too much and after the stabbing as i say she was even louder , she just didnt care by her comeback stage , Capriati complained in 2001 that Seles was screaming after a loss but having watched the match i heard much louder from Seles in 1999 and 2000 . Lets face it they are only hitting a ball but the screaming is not needed .
You have to realise arantchis is actually playing Serena Williams here. You have to understand the scenario . She is fighting a monster of the time sometimes doing ok. !
Injouable Monica à l'époque !
And today all these girls are millionaires and enjoy their free time. Pension from 30 ..
If only she had got her fitness back..
the audience is so unsportsmanlike that they hardly applaud Monica's incredible shots. Shameful!
Most of them were brainwashed by the media. A lot of the unpleasantness was directly related to the brewing conflict in Yugoslavia which began earnestly in early 1992.
Seles was so lucky.
Semi Final was between Graf and Sanchez.
Monica in this form would have likely beaten Steffi had she made the finals.
@@Ricky-mo6mv Graf will beat Her in straight set
@@Ricky-mo6mv Fast Surface. Surface of US Open. Seles won't be able to handle Graf at US Open
@@Ricky-mo6mv Graf vs Sanchez only in Grandslam Semi Final. Seles only pickup the masterpiece
@@stephenmeitai7622 Sorry, but I don’t think so with a Monica in this form.
Monica didn’t even play that well here and still dominated
Seles was better,, she was the N1
Seles not at all powerful as in her AO match that same year, she’s spinning the ball too much sign that she was not as confident at the time; still she managed to dominate this Us. Not her best GS win though
Does anyone else find it funny how Arantxa would move in on the second serve to try to intimidate her opponents? Like huh? Everybody knows she is going to just push the ball back. Watch her take 3 steps back before her opponent hits her serve. It's okay Arantxa, you weren't fooling anyone into thinking you were going to hit a return. :P
Sabatini and Navratilova did that a lot too. Its simply a way to try and put your opponent off. Even if you know your opponent isn't going to hit a hard return, it distorts your vision across the net and makes the service box seem smaller. That alone can cause people to double fault.
SELES 20 graf 18
Kind of a blah performance from Seles, but she is such a bad match up for Sanchez Vicario it didn't really matter.
It is actually harder to tell just from this match. Seles definitely dominated here but Arantxa was also improving quickly in 1992 - much better than 1991. Unlike Sabatini who just gave herself up.