LONDON July 6 ' Steffi Graf, revelling in rare W> mbiedon surisfa ne raced to her seventh title on

tin lamed ( entre Court with a 6t3 7 5 triumph over perennial bridesmaid Arantxa Sanchez Vicario on Saturday, reports Reuter

The 27 year-old German, stretciied to three sets by the Spanish player here last year and last month at the French Open final was tn no mood to dally tins time and sped to victory tn just 8b minutes

But once again Graf. asn most o! tier battles against the doughty Spaniard, had to weather a determined fight

back by Sanchez Vicario that brought her back from 4-0 down to 5-5 tn the second set.

That effort, however, took its-toil as Graf broke Sanchez Vicarios heart with a service break to love to go ahead 6-5.

Graf dropped the first point of her next service game but got to match point at 40-15 when a big deep serve extracted a return that was wide from the Spaniard

Then the German won on tier first match point and took the champion s prize of 544.600 dollar as Sanchez Vi cano succumbed meekly with a feeble forehand service return into the bottom of the ■ net.