Article: Familiarity breeds respect // Graf, Sanchez Vicario battle again

PARIS Steffi Graf and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario have met so many times, there's not much they don't know about one another.

The two met Saturday in the women's final of the French Open for the third time. It was a rematch of the French Open and Wimbledon finals of last year and of the U.S. and Australian Open finals of 1994.

"Saturday . . . another one," Graf and Sanchez Vicario said to each other in the locker room after their semifinal victories Thursday.

"We know each other a lot," Sanchez Vicario said. "We have played so many times. I can't think of anything really different I'm going to do."

Despite the return of Monica Seles and Sanchez Vicario's drop in the rankings below ...

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