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Monica seles video tennis5/28/2023 Yet if the wheels of history had spun in a different direction we could be easily talking of Seles as the most successful player of all time. Monica Seles poses with her parents Esther and Karoli after winning the 1990 French Open -her first grand slam title - by beating Steffi Graf. She was still an excellent player, winning a final grand slam title in 1996 and an Olympic bronze medal in 2000, but she no longer hit the very highest notes. In her moving autobiography, Seles talks of how she began to binge on chocolate pretzels, crisps, Pop-Tarts and ice cream – a problem that often led to her weight ballooning after she returned to the tour in 1995. On top of that, her father – who would endlessly watch her hit balls in a car park as a child with a net strung between two vehicles – was diagnosed with cancer. Depression hit her hard and she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Seles’s biggest battles were no longer between the tramlines. My rankings, all my income, endorsements – they were all cancelled.” How could she be, when she was out for more than two years? And when stepping on the court felt like returning to the scene of the crime? As Seles admitted to the Observer’s Tim Adams in 2009: “I had grown up on a tennis court – it was where I felt most safe, most secure – and that day everything was taken away from me. And then – in one of the most shocking moments in sports history – the 19-year-old was stabbed in the back by a deranged Graf fan while playing in Hamburg. Incredibly from 1991 to 1993 Seles won seven of the eight grand slam tournaments in which she played, posting a 55-1 record, and also reached the finals of 33 out of 34 tournaments. Seles in full flight at the 1990 French Open.
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