Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Monica Seles [a] (born December 2, 1973) is a former world No. 1 tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. She won nine major singles titles, eight of them as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one while representing the United States.
Defending champion Monica Seles successfully defended her title, defeating Martina Navratilova in the final, 6–4, 3–6, 7–5, 6–0 to win the singles tennis title at the 1991 Virginia Slims Championships. [1] [2]
Second-seeded Monica Seles won the singles title in the first five set women's final since Elisabeth Moore won the 1901 U.S. National Championships. [1] Seles received $250,000 first-prize money. Martina Navratilova had qualified for the tournament but withdrew in order to undergo a knee operation.
The Graf–Seles rivalry was a tennis rivalry between Steffi Graf and Monica Seles, who competed in 15 matches between 1989 and 1999.Seles, a left-handed player, demonstrated powerful and precise hitting from the baseline on both wings and an exceptional return of serve.
July 2024 in photos: USA TODAY's most memorable pictures of the year. Visual Editors. December 20, 2024 at 6:03 AM. In July, the world watched the 2024 Olympics kick off in Paris France ...
Monica Seles defeated Steffi Graf in the final, 7–6 (8–6), 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 1990 French Open. [1] Aged 16 years and 6 months, she became the youngest major singles champion in the Open Era at the time, and remains the youngest French Open champion in history.
And to make you feel old, the surprise twins that Monica and Chandler welcomed by adoption in the final episode of the series in 2004 would now be 20 years old. The pair were the last kids born ...
Paris Hilton, left, and Nicole Richie in Los Angeles in November. The pair star in Peacock's reality TV special "Paris & Nicole: The Encore," premiering Thursday.