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It is a glammed-up Monica Seles! It looks like retirement agrees with this former number one who ruled tennis with Steffi Graf for several years in the 90s winning four Australian Opens, three French Opens, and two U.S. Opens between 1990 and 1996. To put her accomplishments in perspective, the only players to have won more Grand Slam titles during their careers are all tennis legends: Graf, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean King and Margaret Smith Court.
aaaseles1.jpgHer career was interrupted tragically in 1993 when she was stabbed by a deranged fan of Graf's while playing a match in Hamburg. Monica was out for 2.5 years healing from her physical and psychological wounds. She was never the same player again but she was still damned good and won many more titles before chronic foot injuries drove her out of the game for good around three years ago.
I'll always cherish being in the second row of Monica's match against Lyndsay Davenport at the year-end championships at Staples Center. I think it was four years ago. Davenport appeared poised for a straight sets win but Seles fought off seven match points - most of them with winners - and ended up winning the match!

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