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- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Monica Seles is a retired professional tennis player, who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world no. 1, she won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one while representing the United States. She is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
In 1990, Seles became the youngest ever French Open champion at the age of 16. She went on to win eight Grand Slam singles titles before her 20th birthday and was the year-end world no. 1 in 1991 and 1992. However, on April 30, 1993, she was the victim of an on-court attack, when a man stabbed her in the back with a 9-inch (23 cm) long knife. Seles did not return to tennis for over two years. Though she enjoyed some success after rejoining the tour in 1995, including a fourth Australian Open title in 1996, she was unable to consistently reproduce her best form. She played her last professional match at the 2003 French Open, but did not officially retire until February 2008.
She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast
- SpouseTom Golisano(June 5, 2014 - present)
- ParentsKaroly SzelesEszter Szeles
- RelativesZoltán Szeles(Sibling)
- While playing Magdalena Maleeva in the quarter-finals of the Hamburg Open, Seles was stabbed in the back during a changeover by Günter Parche, a 38-year-old fan of Steffi Graf's. Seles, who was off the court for 27 months, blamed her binge-eating disorder on the incident. (30 April 1993).
- In 1998, she had further psychological problems when her father and first coach, Karolj, died of cancer.
- Tennis player who was ranked number one in the world at the end of 1991, 1992 and 1995. She won 9 grand slam titles and 44 other tournaments. She didn't officially retire although she has not played since 2003, in May, when she lost in the first round of Roland Garros.
- She is of Hungarian descent.
- Elected into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009.
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