It’s Seles, Loud and Clear : Women’s final: She rolls past an error-plagued Sanchez Vicario, 6-3, 6-3, for her sixth Grand Slam victory in two years.

The Monica Seles Era continued unchallenged Saturday at the U.S. Open, where the year’s last Grand Slam title wound up in her luggage, next to five others she has collected in two years of calculated mayhem in women’s tennis.

On a cool, sunny Saturday afternoon, Seles outslugged Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 6-3, 6-3, in final full of sound but sort of short on fury. All it took was 1 hour 30 minutes of two-fisted slugging for Seles to claim her sixth Grand Slam title in the last two years and seventh overall.

Seles might even have surprised herself.

“When the draw came out, I felt I had a tough (one),” she said. “I was not sure if I would be able to do it in the second week when I became pretty sick.

“I was not feeling too well, so . . . I just said, take it day by day.”

Seles’ day came soon enough. Not only did she win $500,000, she also ended a streak of three tournaments in which she failed to win and also cemented her position as No. 1.

“It is just great,” she said. “Winning this tournament two years in a row, I mean, up to last year, I never played really well here.

“It’s nice. I can play some great tennis.”

The kind she played Saturday probably wasn’t her best. If Seles wasn’t particularly sharp because of flu, Sanchez Vicario was absolutely dull. The 20-year-old Spaniard made 43 unforced errors to go with 18 winners.

Such a small success rate allowed Seles to employ a simple but effective strategy: hit the ball back and wait for Sanchez Vicario to miss.

It worked. Seles struck 17 winners, an inordinately small number for her, and 23 unforced errors.

In the end, the analysis by Sanchez Vicario, broken down to its essential elements: “I think I miss more today than the other matches, but . . . she played better than me and she won.”

It took only 19 minutes for Seles to assume a 5-0 lead, but 23 more minutes for her to finish off the first set. In the second set, Sanchez Vicario fell behind a break in the first game and couldn’t catch up, even though she saved five match points before she finally succumbed.

The problem was she was too impatient, Sanchez Vicario said.

“I was a little bit maybe in a rush and I knew what I have to do. Maybe I wanted to do it too fast and too quick, so I make a lot of mistakes and errors,” she said.

So what did Seles have to do with it?

“She makes a good groundstroke, good shots and I have to move. . . . She played well, but I think I didn’t play as I played the other matches.”

That was probably true enough. With Seles sick and Sanchez Vicario ripping through both Steffi Graf and Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, there was some sentiment that Seles wouldn’t be able to come through.

But once again, she did, much to the dismay of anyone foolhardy enough not to believe. As she raised her eyebrows and smiled broadly when accepting the winner’s check, Seles realized she has a pretty good thing going on here.

In the last two years, Seles has won every Grand Slam event she has played except for Wimbledon in July when Steffi Graf shut her out in straight sets.

But that happened against a silent Seles, after a highly publicized controversy about her grunting during matches.

This time, Seles sounded like someone breaking bricks with karate chops in the final. As day became evening, it became clear that this was not to be a silent night.

But it was going to be Monica’s night, day, whatever, because it’s clearly been her year, two years, whatever. And the end may not be in sight.

The way things are going, the Seles Era is far from over. When everything is said and done, it may even be remembered as the best you’ve ever heard.