Monica Seles

 Monica Seles To Be Inducted Into US Open Court of Champions

Monica Seles will be officially inducted on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013 in an on-court ceremony hosted by U.S. Fed Cup Captain Mary Joe Fernandez and held prior to the 2013 US Open Women’s Singles Final at the Arthur Stadium

Mary Joe Fernández speaks during the Court of Champions ceremony in Arthur Ashe Stadium as David Dinkins and USTA Chairman, CEO and President Dave Haggerty look on

 

Monica Seles will be joining prior inductees -
Andre Agassi, Arthur Ashe, Don Budge, Maureen Connolly, Jimmy Connors, Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Althea Gibson, Pancho Gonzalez, Steffi Graf, Billie Jean King, Jack Kramer, Rod Laver, Ivan Lendl, Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Margaret Osborne duPont, Ken Rosewall, Pete Sampras, Bill Tilden and Helen Wills.

About Monica Seles(DOB Dec 2,1973)

Monica Seles was a former Yugoslav World No 1 ( in 1991 and 1992)Professional Tennis Player who had won 9 Grand Slam Titles, winning 8 of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and one while a citizen of the United States

In 1990, at the age of 16, Monica Seles became the youngest-ever  French Open Champion

In 1991 and 1992 Monica Seles won back to back US Open Titles

Stabbing Incident

On April 30,1993 during a quarterfinal match with Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg in  in which Seles was leading 6–4, 4–3, Günter Parche, an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf , ran from the middle of the crowd to the edge of the court during a break between games and stabbed Seles with a boning knife between her shoulder blades, to a depth of 1.5 cm (0.59 inches).

Although her physical injuries took only a few weeks to heal, she did not return to competitive tennis for more than two years
Monica Seles vowed never to play tennis in Germany again, disenchanted by the German Legal System "What people seem to be forgetting is that this man stabbed me intentionally and he did not serve any sort of punishment for it... I would not feel comfortable going back. I don't foresee that happening."

Comeback from injury

Monica Seles returned to the tour in August 1995 and won her first comeback tournament, the Canadian Open beating amanda Coetzer  in the final, 6–0, 6–1

The following month Monica Seles lost the US Open Finals to Steffi Graf 6-7,6-0,3-6


In January 1996, Monica Seles won her fourth Australian Open, beating Anke Huber 



Monica Seles played her last professional match at the 2003 French Open but did not officially retire until February 2008

Career Grand Slam Titles

• Australian Open -1991,1992,1993 and 1996
• French Open -1990,1991 and 1992
• US Open -1991 and 1992