Monika Seleš

Monica Seles is one of the most popular tennis players who has competed in the US and Yugoslavia championships. Has played in Grand Slam tournaments, participated in the Olympic Games, has many awards and titles.

Monica was born in the winter of 1973 in the city of Novi Sad in southern Serbia. The girl's parents are Hungarians, her mother Esther Seles worked as a programmer, her father Kara Seles had a creative profession, worked as a cartoonist. She was the second child, by the time the girl was born, her parents were already raising Monica's brother Zoltan.

When the girl was 6 years old, her father began to introduce her to tennis. Since the family did not live well, her parents could not afford to enroll her in classes with a professional coach, and her father, on his own, tried to teach Monica the basics of tennis. The first place for training was the field behind the house, instead of a net, my father pulled the rope.

The girl turned out to be capable and, without a professional mentor, quickly mastered tennis. Diligent and long-term studies helped Monica at the age of 9 to win first place in the Yugoslav youth championship, where her rivals were 12-year-old girls. A year later, she took another victory in the championship, and at the age of 12 she was awarded the title of "Sportswoman of the Year of Yugoslavia".

A year later, the Seles family moved to Florida, USA. There, Monica becomes a participant in the children's youth tournament, after which she was supposed to return with her family. However, her play is noticed by Nick Bollettieri. At that time, he was a famous coach who raised more than one tennis star.

The man offered the girl a place in his own Academy, but for this the family needs to move to America for permanent residence. Despite financial difficulties, after a while the Seles family still moved. The girl's father put all his efforts into her development as an athlete, so he would not forgive himself if he had missed this opportunity.

Monica's first major victory came at the age of 14. In 1988 she took part in a professional tournament, where she showed excellent results and won 1st place in her age group. Developing in tennis, the girl moved into big sports a year later, and soon the first important victories appeared in her biography, which gave impetus to the development of a sports career.

From a young age, training, already in adolescence, Monica Seles demonstrated an excellent game. In 1990, when the girl was 16 years old, she took part in the Roland Garros tennis tournament. In the final part, she was to meet with the German athlete Steffi Graf, who at that time was already the owner of the Golden Grand Slam and bore the title of the best world athlete in 1988. Monica defeated her rival and took the lead.

After some time, Seles fought in the tournament with Chris Evert, where she also won, but later the girl took revenge in the US Open, but still for Seles it was an excellent start to her career.

After some time, Monica became a participant in the French championship, but Steffi Graf won in the semifinal game. However, this did not prevent Seles from taking the 6th line in the world sports ranking that year.

Despite the successes and victories that accompanied the athlete, an important event in her life was parting with the coach, who had been with the girl since the beginning of her sports career. This happened due to the fact that Bollettieri devoted little time to classes with Monica, training his other students more.

Seles' next sports year began with several defeats in Washington, Chicago and Boca Raton. However, having gathered her strength, the girl won several high-profile victories at the championship in America and the super tournament in Key Biscayne, and later beat Steffi Graf at the Open Championship in Germany. To maintain the level of play at the proper level, Monica had to train hard, she felt tired, but she did not give up and won more and more medals.

In 1991 and the whole next year, Monica Seles showed good results, for this short period in terms of performance she managed to overtake Steffi Graf and receive the title of "First racket of the world". Only at the Grand Slam tournaments, the girl won 6 times. Until the beginning of 1993, she managed to win 22 titles.

In the spring of 1993, a turning point occurred in the tennis player's career. It happened at a tournament in Hamburg, during the game it was clear that Monica was ahead of her rival Magdalena Maleeva in points, but this time she did not manage to win. When the participants of the tournament changed places, a fan from the first row, an unknown man, attacked Seles. He struck one blow with a knife, after which the bodyguards and the girl's brother tied the unknown. Monica was hospitalized urgently, luckily, the injury was not life-threatening.

The girl was quickly cured and discharged from the hospital, but the incident dealt a huge psychological blow to Monica. For a long time she could not cope with fear and go back to the court. The man who committed the attack was declared insane and sent for compulsory treatment. Seles' relatives were dissatisfied with the verdict, but did not appeal against it. And the woman, meanwhile, stopped her sports career for 2 years, because she was afraid of new attacks.

The return of the athlete to tennis was a delight for the fans. This decision was made thanks to the support of Monica's father, the instructions of the attending physician and a meeting with Muhammad Ali. The famous boxer himself was struggling with a serious illness, so he found the right words to convince her to return to the court again.

For the first time after a long break, the tennis player performed at the Canada Masters Championship, where she defeated Amanda Ketzer. And a month later she had a game with Graf, during which Monica lost. In early 1996, she again won the Australian Open.

However, this win was the last in the Grand Slam tournaments. The tennis player's father fell seriously ill, and died a few months later, for her it was a big blow. After this event, Seles no longer made high-profile victories, in 2003 the girl received a foot injury and even withdrew from a match in Rome, after a while she stopped performing at major competitions, and in 2008 she announced her retirement altogether.

Some time after the end of her sports activities, rumors began to appear in the press that Monica Seles was secretly meeting with the American billionaire Tom Golisano. Reporters have repeatedly tried to find out whether this is true or not, but the man and woman did not talk about their personal lives for a long time.

However, in 2014, Golisano, who at that time was 72 years old, announced his engagement to Seles, and soon the couple signed. Monica is 32 years younger than her husband; the couple have no children. Even before marriage, Tom ran 3 times for governor of New York, but after the state introduced a tax for millionaires, the man moved to Florida. Soon Monica put her house up for sale, and the couple began to live together.

After completing her career, Monica began to study hatha yoga, the doctrine of physical harmony transformed her and helped to lose weight. In 2009, she wrote a book, her autobiography, where she paid great attention to overweight and the fight against them, as well as the period of her life that she was going through after the attack of a man.

Now the former tennis player leads a rich social life, attends events, and also does charity work and visits animal shelters. The woman does not have a page on Instagram, she posts personal photos and posts on Twitter.

From time to time, the former athlete is invited to the show, Monica starred in documentaries about tennis. In 2018, a film was released about the sports biography of a woman called "Immortals: Pete Sampras, Monica Seles, Born Borg."

1990 - Winner of the French Open Grand Slam Tennis Championships 1991 - Winner of the Australian, French and US Open Grand Slam Tennis Championships 1992 - Winner of the Australian, French, and US Open Grand Slam Tennis Championships 1993 - Winner of the Open Tennis Championships Australian Tennis Grand Slam 1996 - Winner of the Australian Open Tennis Grand Slam 2000 - Bronze Medal for Victory in the Summer Olympics

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