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Australian Open 1994 was a numbers game. For American Todd Martin it was the first Grand Slam final of his career. By contrast, in beating Martin 7-6(4) 6-4 6-4 in the final, Pete Sampras notched up his second title of the year, the 23rd title of his career, and joined Jack Crawford, Lew Hoad, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Don Budge as one of only a handful of male players to win three-consecutive major titles. As attendance figures hit a record 332,926 for the first time, Kimiko Date became the first Japanese woman since Kazuko Sawamatsu (at Australian Open 1973) to reach a Grand Slam semifinal. In the absence of Monica Seles, sidelined after being stabbed during a match in Hamburg in 1993, Steffi Graf wasted no time enhancing her own impressive collection of statistics. Her 6-0 6-2 final victory over Arantxa Sanchez Vicario was the fastest in Australian Open women’s singles history - it took Sanchez Vicario a full 31 minutes to even get herself on the scoreboard. The win represented Graf’s 80th career singles title and fourth-consecutive Slam title making her only the second woman at that time to have won a non-calendar year Grand Slam.