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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.
This tournament would later attract infamy for being the location where then World No. 1 Monica Seles was stabbed during a singles quarterfinal match with then World No. 14 Magdalena Maleeva by an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf, Günter Parche. The stabbing prompted an increase in security at subsequent tennis events. [2]
Kvitova suffered cuts to her left hand while defending herself during a home invasion in 2016, while Seles was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg in 1993 which kept her off the court ...
The title track, "Fly Monica Fly", was written by Peter Heazlewood for a girlfriend in distress. [7] [8] It came to the attention of prominent tennis player, Monica Seles, who was recovering from her 1993 stabbing. Seles stated "I received this at a pretty tough time in my life and it was very inspirational and I played it a lot". [9]
The NBA would rather not give the protestors attention, but it's happened three times now. It's getting attention. ... the Monica Seles stabbing during a tournament in Germany. ...
An Indianapolis woman who stabbed an Asian student in her head multiple times has been sentenced to six years in prison for the hate crime. Billie Davis, 57, of Bloomington, Ind., will spend six ...
She credited her win with being more aggressive and coming to the net whenever she could to attack Graf's shorter balls. Sabatini also beat Graf in the semifinals of the WTA Championships in Madison Square Garden later that year, losing in the final to Monica Seles, 6–4, 5–7, 3–6, 6–4, 6–2. It was the first five-set match to be played ...
The former star athlete who stabbed his ex-girlfriend and her mother in a frenzied parking lot attack in Florida last summer — before slashing his own throat — still had the scars of his ...