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.
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.
Country | Player | Ranking | Seeding | |
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YUG | Monica Seles | 1 | 1 | |
Steffi Graf | 2 | 2 | ||
Spain | Arantxa Sánchez Vicario | 3 | 3 | |
Czech Republic | Jana Novotná | 9 | 4 | |
Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere | 11 | 5 | ||
Anke Huber | 10 | 6 | ||
Magdalena Maleeva | 14 | 7 | ||
Katerina Maleeva | 17 | 8 |
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
The following players received entry from a Lucky loser spot:
See main article: 1993 Citizen Cup – Singles. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated Steffi Graf, 6–3, 6–3
See main article: 1993 Citizen Cup – Doubles. Steffi Graf / Rennae Stubbs defeated Larisa Neiland / Jana Novotná, 6–4, 7–6(7–5)