Monica Seles
Monica Seles
Monica Selesis a former Yugoslav world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. An ethnic Hungarian, she was born and raised in Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. She won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them while a citizen of Yugoslavia and the final as a citizen of United States of America. In 1990, Seles became...
NationalityYugoslavian
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth2 December 1973
It's fantastically exciting. She's so young still and she was so good. I'm a big fan of hers. She was a great No. 1 player. She was a chess player out there.
You're out there for two-and-a-half hours, it's six-all in the tiebreaker, a couple of points will decide who's in the finals, and then you have the plane flying over. And it's like 'Oh, get me out of here' for a second.
What Mary has achieved is nothing short of amazing. If she can come back from all her injuries and do so well, then I think why can't I?
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there
You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.
I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.
I don't like salads: I like the strong food.
What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.
I'm 5 feet 10 inches, and whatever my whatever my weight is, that's fine. As long as I am able to move and I feel good, it doesn't matter.
Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament