The Most Gruesome Day in Tennis: When Monica Seles Was Brutally Stabbed in the Back

From Number One to gone forever

Runner-up Monica Seles at the 1991 U.S. Women’s Hard Court Championships in San Antonio | Source C Thomas on Flickr is licensed under CC BY 2.0, altered by the author

At the age of 19, Monica Seles was the best female tennis player in the world. That same year her career was already over.

But she wasn’t just №1. The Guardian’s journalist Tim Adams claimed Seles was “the greatest female tennis player ever to…