Davenport then reached the semifinals of the tournament in Indian Wells, California, where she lost to Steffi Graf.

Davenport then lost in the Indian Wells, California, final to Hingis, after defeating Steffi Graf, and in the Miami, she fell in the quarterfinals to Anna Kournikova.

Davenport then won Zürich and lost to 17th-ranked Graf in Philadelphia despite attaining the no.

Graf then lost to Navratilova 7 – 5, 6 – 3 in the Wimbledon final, her first loss of the year.

Graf did not lose a set during the tournament and lost a total of only 29 games.

Graf lost twice to Gabriela Sabatini during the spring, once on hardcourts in Boca Raton, Florida, and once on clay at Amelia Island, Florida.

In the Boca Raton final, Graf lost the only set she conceded to Chris Evert in their final seven matches.

In the subsequent Amelia Island final on clay, Graf lost her first match of the year to Sabatini but returned to European clay with easy victories at Hamburg and Berlin.

Graf served for the match at 5 – 3 in the third set but lost the game at love and won only three more points in the match.

Graf again lost to Monica Seles in the final of the French Open 7 – 6, 6 – 4.

At Wimbledon, Graf lost in the semifinals to Zina Garrison, who with this victory broke Graf's string of 13 consecutive Grand Slam finals.

After victories in Montreal and San Diego, Graf reached the US Open final, where she lost in straight sets to Sabatini.

Graf won four indoor tournaments after the US Open, but lost again to Sabatini in a Virginia Slims Championships semifinal.

Graf briefly regained the top ranking after winning at Wimbledon but lost it again after her loss to Navratilova at the US Open.

Following her tournament victory in Berlin, Graf suffered one of the worst defeats of her career in a French Open semifinal where she won only two games against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and lost her first 6 – 0 set since 1984.

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Graf lost to Jennifer Capriati in the final and claimed the silver medal.

Graf lost to Conchita Martínez in her return tournament a month later in Philadelphia.

She then won her eighth German Open, but there were signs that her form was worsening as she almost lost to Julie Halard in a quarterfinal. Back-to-back losses followed ; Graf lost to Mary Pierce in a French Open semifinal, 6 – 2, 6 – 2, and followed that with a first-round straight-sets loss at Wimbledon to Lori McNeil, her first loss in a first round Grand Slam tournament in ten years.

In 1997 Graf lost in the 4th round of Australian open in straight sets 2 – 6, 5 – 7 to Amanda Coetzer.

In Indian Wells, 1999 Graf lost to Serena Williams 3 – 6, 6 – 3, 5 – 7.

Graf lost her singles match to Elena Likhovtseva 5 – 4.

Williams started the 1999 tour in Australia, where she lost to World No. 10 Steffi Graf in the quarterfinals of the Medibank International in Sydney and World No. 1 Davenport in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.

At the 1999 Wimbledon Championships, Williams defeated World No. 17 Anna Kournikova in the fourth round to reach the quarterfinals for the second consecutive year, where she lost to eventual runner-up Graf.

In February 2005, the Phoenix Mercury announced that she had been signed as an assistant coach under fellow Australian and Mercury head coach Carrie Graf.

Graf started 1988 by winning the Australian Open, defeating Chris Evert in the final 6 – 1, 7 – 6.

And the year began as expected, with Graf extending her Grand Slam winning streak to five events at the Australian Open, defeating Helena Suková in the final.

Graf defeated Mary Joe Fernandez in the final of the Australian Open, which was her eighth Grand Slam singles title in the last nine she contested.

A bout of German measles forced Graf to miss the first major event of 1992, the Australian Open.

Monica Seles beat Graf in three sets in the final of the Australian Open 4 – 6, 6 – 3, 6 – 2.

Seemingly free of injury for the first time in years, Graf began the year by winning the Australian Open, where she defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the final with the loss of only two games.

Injury kept Graf out of the Australian Open.

Graf again missed the Australian Open because of injury and then successfully defended the three Grand Slam titles she won the year before.

At the beginning of 1999 Graf played the warm up event to the Australian Open in Sydney ; she defeated Serena Williams in the 2nd round and Venus Williams in the quarter-finals before losing to Lindsay Davenport in the semi-final.

Graf then went on to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open before losing to Monica Seles 7 – 5, 6 – 1.

Graf won seven singles titles at Wimbledon, six singles titles at the French Open, five singles titles at the US Open, and four singles titles at the Australian Open.

*# Australian Open-Steffi Graf

*# Australian Open-Steffi Graf

*# Australian Open – Steffi Graf

*# Australian Open – Steffi Graf

Her last consistent performance in a Grand Slam event was at the 1988 Australian Open, where, as the defending champion, she reached the quarterfinals before losing to the eventual champion, Steffi Graf.

She reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open ( first time from Japan in over two decades beating Conchita Martinez in the quarter final, lost to Steffi Graf ) and the Virginia Slims Championships ( lost to Sabatini ).

She reached her first Grand Slam singles final in 1990 at the Australian Open, where she was defeated by Steffi Graf.

In reaching the Australian Open semi-finals for the second consecutive year, she defeated World No. 1 Graf in the fourth round.

This win allowed Hingis to join Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles as the only women to have won three consecutive Australian Open titles.