10 instances when a player survived a bagel in a Grand Slam final

Richard Norris Williams became the first male player to survive a bagel in a Grand Slam final

#8. Steffi Graf vs Monica Seles, 1995 US Open final

Steffi Graf won her fourth US Open title after surviving a huge scare from rival Monica Seles

Steffi Graf had a number of rivalries during her career but the fiercest of most would be her rivalry with Monica Seles during the early 1990s. Seles had already won eight Grand Slam titles before she was 19 and had already overtaken Graf in the WTA rankings and many expected her to be the greatest of all-time with the kind of form she was in before disaster struck for her.In 1993, Seles was stabbed in the shoulder by an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf and did not play tennis until 1995 and in the first Grand Slam that she played after recuperating, she reached the final where she would face Graf.It was the 1995 US Open and both players had been in terrific form with Graf dropping only one set prior to the final and Seles none. The first set of the final was a nail-biting one with Graf barely managing to hold her nerve to take the set in a tiebreak. Seles then made a fierce comeback by taking the second set 6-0, making it the first time that Steffi Graf was bageled in a Grand Slam final.However, Graf was in no mood to drop the ball and she rebounded brilliantly and took the third set 6-3 to win her fourth US Open title and 18th Grand Slam title.

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