1993: Tennis player
Monica Seles was stabbed by an obsessed fan during a quarter-final match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany.
1993: Tennis player
Monica Seles was stabbed by an obsessed fan of rival Steffi Graf during a quarter-final match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany.
1993: Tennis player
Monica Seles was stabbed by a fan during the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg.
TWO-TIME winner Petra Kvitova hailed
Monica Seles as an inspiration after meeting her for the first time on Thursday.
As tennis player
Monica Seles put it: "Even playing at a high level, it's hard to know what the experience of winning-and trying to stay on top-is like for another competitor...
1990:
Monica Seles ended Steffi Graf's record of 66 consecutive victories when she beat her 6-4 6-3 in the final of the BMW German Open.
BIRTHDAYS: Patricia Hewitt, former Health Secretary, 67; Richard Quinn, former jockey, 54; Lucy Liu, actress, 47; David Batty, former footballer, 47;
Monica Seles, former tennis player, 42; Nelly Furtado, singer, 37; Christopher Wolstenholme, musician with Muse, 37, Britney Spears, pop star, 34.
BORN BRITNEY Spears, US pop singer, 1981, above
MONICA Seles, tennis champion, 1973 GIANNI Versace, fashion desiger, 1943 DIED AARON Copland, US composer, 1990 BIG Daddy, UK wrestler, 1997, above MAGGIE Jones, English actress, 2009
1995:
Monica Seles beat Martina Navratilova at an exhibition match in Bucharest, Romania.
3 Which was the only Grand Slam Which was the only Grand Slam singles title that tennis star Monica singles title that tennis star
Monica Seles failed to win?
Monica Seles - United States tennis player (born in Yugoslavia in 1973)