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
Tennis is pretty unforgiving if you are carrying weight. You are expected to wear short skirts, and you are compared to all these 16 and 17-year-olds.
I did realise more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.
I would like to thank all my tennis fans who were there from Day One when I was No. 1, through my stabbing, and my comeback.
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.
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 about the present.
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay
That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.
As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.