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Monica Seles
Monica Seles is a retired professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 178 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 three times. Seles won 53 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including nine majors: eight as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia and the final one while…
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sports · Yugoslav–American tennis player (b. 1973) · tennis player · also Monica Seles, Monica Seleš, Seles
Born 2 December 1973 · Q173633
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2026· 4 entries
“I have younger players coming up to me, and they”
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Public attention spiked: 22,347 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.1× the usual 4,396, with 2 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 14,326 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 4,396, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 5 entries
Tennis: Tennis star Monica Seles reveals her diagnosis with myasthenia gravis
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Yahoo: Tennis Hall of Famer Monica Seles Opens Up About Myasthenia Gravis Diagnosis: 'It's a Difficult One'
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Yahoo! Sports: Tennis legend Monica Seles reveals diagnosis with rare chronic autoimmune disease
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Chicago Tribune: Tennis star Monica Seles, 51, reveals her diagnosis with myasthenia gravis
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Chicago Tribune: Monica Seles revela que padece miastenia gravis: ‘afecta mi vida diaria bastante’
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2022· 2 entries
And spoke publicly about her battle with the disease in August 2025
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Seles was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis in 2022, and spoke publicly about her battle with the disease in August 2025.
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2012· 1 entry
Tennis Channel created a list of the 100 greatest tennis players
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2011· 2 entries
As saying, "From the time I was stabbed, I think the security hasn't changed"
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Seles was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded International Tennis Hall of Fame (2009).
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Seles released her memoir Getting A Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self, which chronicles her bout with depression and binge eating disorder (BED) after her stabbing, her father's cancer diagnosis and eventual death, her
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2008· 1 entry
Seles announced her official retirement from professional tennis
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Sarah Palfrey Danzig Award (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Her last full year on the tour, she finished the year ranked world No
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1998· 1 entry
Just a few weeks after the death of her father and former coach, Karolj, from cancer
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1996· 3 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1996).
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Seles made a guest appearance in the TV sitcom The Nanny
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Played for United States Billie Jean King Cup team (1996–2002).
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1995· 2 entries
After the stabbing, Seles wore apparel by Nike and used a Yonex racquet on court
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Seles claimed a ninth major championship at the 1996 Australian Open, but was unable to consistently produce her best tennis
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1994· 2 entries
Seles returned to the tour in August 1995
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And she received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007
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1993· 7 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1993).
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Awarded Best Female Tennis Player ESPY Award (1993).
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Awarded Best Female Athlete ESPY Award (1993).
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Seles was the victim of an on-court attack when an obsessed fan of Seles' rival Steffi Graf stabbed Seles in the back with a knife as she was sitting down between games
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During a quarterfinal match against Magdalena Maleeva at the Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany, a German man named Günter Parche (1954–2022), an obsessed fan of Seles's rival Graf, ran from the middle of the crowd to the e
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Seinfeld featured an episode ("The Lip Reader") in which the creators fictionalized Seles's return to the US Open after her stabbing
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And 16 of the 17 top players who voted rejected the proposal – Graf did not participate in the tournament and was thus absent from voting
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1992· 4 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1992).
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Won the French Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1992).
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Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1992).
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Defended her titles at the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open
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1991· 4 entries
Won the Australian Open Women with _Retired Tennis (1991).
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Awarded Associated Press Athlete of the Year (1991).
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And 1992, compiling a total of eight major championships while still a teenager
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Won the Australian Open in January, beating Jana Novotná in the final
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1989· 1 entry
And joined the professional tour full-time, winning her first career title at Houston in May 1989, where she beat the soon-to-retire Chris Evert in the final
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1985· 2 entries
And 1990, and the BTA Best Balkan Athlete of the Year in 1990 and 1991
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At age 11, she won the Junior Orange Bowl tournament in Miami, Florida, which caught the attention of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri
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1973· 1 entry
Born 1973-12-02.
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1937· 1 entry
To win the women's singles title three consecutive years at the French Open, a feat subsequently achieved by Justine Henin in 2005–7
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