Monica Seles Stabbing

The day that changed women's tennis history. Monica was on top of the world, she had won 7 of the last 8 grandslams she entered, plus the last 3 year end championships. At age 19, she already had 8 grandslam titles, and a 4-1 grandslam final record against Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. She was getting stronger and stronger, was about to go for her 4th consecutive french open, when all of this stopped. Soon after, Steffi started winning all the grandslams, while Monica's career was changed forever. She would make a return 2.5 years later, and won her 9th grandslam. But she was never the same player mentally or physically, her whole destiny had changed, she had a different approach on life and was just happy to be out there playing instead of the single-minded champion who was going for so many records. She also lost her father & coach to cancer in 1998. Today Monica has revealed that her weight problems since her comeback were a result of her stabbing and the death of her father, food became her best friend. To me Monica Seles will always be the greatest champion of all-time, between 1990-1993 she was dominating, improving and showing no signs of stopping. Too bad that her attacker got his wish when he made Steffi get back to no.1 and today she owns the records and people call her the greatest. Saddest story in tennis, but we all know that Monica is the real greatest and that without the stabbing she would have continued to evolve and continue on her incredible journey. Monica however is so humble and she never gives excuses or feels sorry for herself, and to me that's the definition of a true champion.

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• Monica
• Seles
• stabbing
• Tennis
• Roger
• Federer
• Venus
• Serena
• Williams
• Rafael
• Nadal
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• 1993
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[starryskychic]

Where did she get stabbed ?????Can Someone tell me

[whfan007]

@starryskychic  in the tournament hamburg germany in 1993.

[starryskychic]

@whfan007 was it in the back or the neck area.. I couldnt tell

[whfan007]

@starryskychic the back... here's a pic: images.mylot.com/userImages/im­ages/postphotos/440739.jpg

[santoreino26]

@123456RaulMorales VIVAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sagarutekar]

@dwaynebuddha

Monica was still at an early stage of her career when she got stabbed! She was just 20!

And then here we are not discussing about whether or not she could win Wimbledon, we are talking about Monica as a better Tennis player than Graf!

Graf was just fortunate that Monica could not play for three years!

you asked me for stats, I gave you the stats!

[LIVINGONTHEDOLE]

steffi graf is a tremondous tennis player... and ultimately, history will show her as the greatest female tennis star- to date.

Its not her fault some pyscho decided to attack monica seles... and whether seles would have fulfilled her promise is irrelevant. Facts are facts. Terribly sad for seles, yes... but don't try and destroy graf. Its simply not fair..

[sdlfjlsdkf]

@Hoffenheim08 @Hoffenheim08 'K, so I may be wrong on the details. That does not justify the fact that you're fellow countryman committed a foul crime, thank god he had not stabbed her in the spine, which would've paralyzed her. Again, you may retort that I may be "wrong" with the details, that he had intentionally stabbed her so she may suffer a few years of recovery. Either way or another, it never ever justifies the action! Why would I be embarrassed about that??

[Ouija121085]

if this german psychopath did not stabb her she would be undoubtedly the best female tennis player of all time. She had 8 GS titles and got stabbed when she was 20-21. This stabbing changed her totaly she could no longer take the preassure and psychological effects of stabbing stuntted her career. This monster should be in jail for the rest of his life. Sick fuck.

[Ouija121085]

@Meade3763 Monica Seles was superior to Graf, this was a fact and she was just beggining her career and had 8 gran slams to her name. After the stabbing she coudn't cope psychologically and was never the same player.

[Hoffenheim08]

@ejbreti

Who the hell is "Graff"?

[Hoffenheim08]

@sdlfjlsdkf

He was no neo-nazi, you dummy.

And Steffi was not "owned" by Seles, quite the contrary. Steffi won 3 of 5 matches against #1 Seles pre-stabbing. With the two closest matches being the two which were won by Seles. And don't forget - that were the years when Steffi played below her usual average (proof being her many losses to Sabatini/Novotna types).

So why not check the facts before you embarrass yourself publicly in an internet forum?

[MartialBioinfo]

Still remember as if yesterday, sitting on my mother's lap & hear her gasp when she was stabbed. Being from a cricket crazy nation I started watching Tennis, because of Monica seles. I totally agree that her progress was astonishing like none others. Loved her game. Was a 10 year old kid back then. In my book you are the ace Monica.Lots of love

[jembozzo]

@starryskychic who knows ?

it was her destiny

[mikepar2]

Steffi had 11 Grand Slams prior to Monica being stabbed and given she had beaten Seles 6-0, 6-1 in Monica's only Wimbledon final in 1992 it is safe to say she would have 14 as she won 3 Wimbledon titles afterwards, you can debate how many of the other 8 she would have won had this not happened, she didn't ask/want etc this to happen,its a shame that her legacy is being tarnished by something she had no control over.