<Li> By beating Gabriela Sabatini in the 1990 YEC final, Seles became the first woman of the Open Era to win a 5 - set match . </Li> <Li> Seles won the French Open 3 times in a row, an open era record shared with Justine Henin (and all - time record shared with Hilde Sperling). </Li> <Li> Seles is the only player, man or woman of the open era to win 8 of the first 14 slams she played . In comparison, after 14 slams, Evert had won 5, Graf 1, Hingis 4, Navratilova 0, Serena Williams 1, Venus Williams 2 . </Li> <Li> Seles is the only player who beat Graf 3 times in Major finals . </Li>

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