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
What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.
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