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Game On by Monica Seles6/10/2023 Depression hit her hard and she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Seles’s biggest battles were no longer between the tramlines. My rankings, all my income, endorsements – they were all cancelled.” How could she be, when she was out for more than two years? And when stepping on the court felt like returning to the scene of the crime? As Seles admitted to the Observer’s Tim Adams in 2009: “I had grown up on a tennis court – it was where I felt most safe, most secure – and that day everything was taken away from me. And then – in one of the most shocking moments in sports history – the 19-year-old was stabbed in the back by a deranged Graf fan while playing in Hamburg. Incredibly from 1991 to 1993 Seles won seven of the eight grand slam tournaments in which she played, posting a 55-1 record, and also reached the finals of 33 out of 34 tournaments. Seles in full flight at the 1990 French Open.
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