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Monica Seles

Country	United States  Yugoslavia
Residence	Sarasota, Florida
Date of birth	December 2, 1973 (1973-12-02) (age 34)
Place of birth	Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Turned Pro	1989
Plays	Left; Two-handed both sides
Career Prize Money	US$14,891,762
Singles
Career record:	595-122
Career titles:	53
Highest ranking:	No. 1 (March 11, 1991)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	W (1991, '92, '93, '96)
French Open	W (1990, '91, '92)
Wimbledon	F (1992)
U.S. Open	W (1991, '92)
Doubles
Career record:	89-45
Career titles:	6
Highest ranking:	No. 16 (April 22, 1991)
Infobox last updated on: August 24, 2007.

Olympic medal record
Women’s Tennis
Competitor for  United States
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Singles

Monica Seles (born December 2, 1973) is a former world No. 1 professional Yugoslav-American tennis player, who played for both Yugoslavia and the United States. Although born in the former Yugoslavia, she became a naturalized United States citizen in 1994. She has won nine Grand Slam singles titles, including four Australian Open women's singles titles. She became the youngest-ever champion at the French Open in 1990. She was the top ranked player in the women's game during 1991 and 1992.

In October 2007, Monica Seles was appointed by the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition, IIMSAM, as a Goodwill Ambassador and Spokesperson for its Global Sports for Peace and Development Programme Initiative to counter malnutrition and for the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Style 1.2 Brief Career History 2 Turning point: the 1993 stabbing 3 Comeback 4 Career assessment 5 Grand Slam singles finals 5.1 Wins (9) 5.2 Runners-up (4) 6 Titles (59) 6.1 Singles (53) 6.2 Doubles (6) 7 Runner-ups (35) 7.1 Singles (32) 7.2 Doubles (3) 8 Singles performance timeline 9 WTA Tour career earnings 10 Trivia 11 See also 12 References 13 External links

Seles (Serbian: Моника Селеш, Monika Seleš; Hungarian: Szeles Mónika (pronounced /sɛlɛʃ/) was born in Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Vojvodina, Serbia) to Hungarian parents.

Considered to be one of the best players of all time, Seles began playing tennis at the age of six, coached by her father Károly Szeles. She won her first tournament at the age of nine, despite not fully understanding the scoring system of the game and having only a vague idea of whether she was leading or trailing her opponents during matches.^{[citation needed]} In 1985 at the age of 11, she won the Orange Bowl tournament in Miami, Florida, and caught the attention of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri. In 1986, the Seles family moved from SFR Yugoslavia to the United States, and Seles enrolled in the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, where she trained for two years.

Seles played her first professional tournament in 1988 at the age of 14. The following year, she joined the professional tour full-time and won her first career title at Houston in May 1989, where she beat Chris Evert in the final. A month later, Seles reached the semifinals in her first Grand Slam singles tournament at the French Open, where she lost to World No. 1 Steffi Graf, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 . Seles finished her first year on the tour ranked World No. 6.

With punishing, sharp-angled two-fisted forehand and backhand shots and a dominating return of serve, Seles is considered by many to be the first "power player" in the women's game, paving the way for players such as Venus and Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport, and Maria Sharapova.^{[citation needed]} She was also well-known for grunting loudly on court. On a few occasions, her opponents claimed that the grunting was distracting and prevented them from hearing the ball make contact with her racquet.^{[citation needed]}

A remarkable aspect of her style, the two-handed forehand, was expected to make her reach shorter, but she manages to compensate for the shorter reach by being able to hit balls much harder, with more top-spin, allowing her to hit sharper angles. Also, she had very fast feet, allowing herself to run down balls and get into a position to return a shot.

Seles won her first Grand Slam singles title at the French Open in 1990. Facing World No. 1 Graf in the final, she saved four set-points in a first-set tie-breaker, which she won 8-6, and went on to take the match in straight-sets. In doing so, she became the youngest-ever French Open champion at the age of 16 years, 6 months. She also won the 1990 season-ending championships, defeating Gabriela Sabatini in five sets, finishing the season ranked No. 2.

1991 was the first of two years in which Seles dominated the women's tour. She started out by winning the Australian Open in January, beating Jana Novotná in the final. In March, she replaced Graf as the World No. 1. She then successfully defended her French Open title, beating the former youngest-ever winner Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the final. However, instead of playing at Wimbledon, she took a six-week break, blaming shin splints. But she was back in time for the U.S. Open, and won it beating Martina Navrátilová in the final to cement her position at the top of the world rankings. She also won the season-ending championships, beating Navratilova in four sets.

1992 was an equally dominant year. She successfully defended her titles at the Australian Open, the French Open, and the U.S. Open. She also reached the final at Wimbledon, but could not manage to break Graf's dominance on the grass court surface and lost 6-2, 6-1. Some observers, however, attribute her lop-sided loss to her decision to remain silent throughout the match, resulting in less penetrating shots. Two opponents (including Navrátilová in the semifinals) had strongly complained about Seles' screams.^{[citation needed]}

During the period from January 1991 to February 1993, Seles won 22 titles and reached 33 finals out of the 34 tournaments she played. She compiled a 159-12 win-loss record (92.9% winning percentage), including a 55-1 win-loss record in Grand Slam tournaments. In the broader context of her first four years on the circuit (1989-1992), Seles had a win-loss record of 231-25 (90.2% winning percentage) and collected 30 titles. Only Evert had a better first four years in terms of winning percentage (91.1% from 1971 to 1974) and titles (34) in the open era.^{[citation needed]}.

Seles was the top women's player heading into 1993, having won the French Open three consecutive years and both the U.S. Open and Australian Open in consecutive years. In January 1993, Seles defeated Graf in the final of the Australian Open, which to date was her third win in four Grand Slam finals with Graf.

Everything, however, changed following an incident that shocked the tennis world on April 30, 1993. During a quarterfinal match with Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg in which Seles was leading 6-4, 4-3, a 38-year-old deranged fan of Graf, Günter Parche, ran from the middle of the crowd to the edge of the court during a break between games and plunged a boning knife between Seles's shoulder blades. She let out a piercing scream and was quickly rushed to a hospital. Her physical injuries took a few weeks to heal, but the psychological scars from this incident apparently left a much deeper impression on Seles. She did not return to competitive tennis for over two years.

Parche was charged following the incident but was not jailed because he was found to be psychologically abnormal and was instead sentenced to two years' probation and psychological treatment. The incident prompted a significant increase in the level of security at tour events.^[1] Seles vowed never to play tennis in Germany again.

During her layoff from competitive tennis, Seles became a United States citizen on May 17, 1994.

Seles returned to the tour in August 1995 and won her first comeback tournament, the Canadian Open, beating Amanda Coetzer in the final 6-1, 6-0. Many believed that she would soon be dominating the circuit again in the way she was before the 1993 stabbing incident. The following month at the U.S. Open, Seles lost the final to Graf 7-6, 0-6, 6-3, after having held set-point in the first set.

In January 1996, Seles won her fourth Australian Open, beating Anke Huber in the final. But this was to be her last Grand Slam title. Seles struggled to recapture her best form on a regular basis. Her difficulties were compounded by having to cope with her father and long-term coach Károly being stricken by cancer and eventually passing away in 1998. Seles was runner-up at the U.S. Open to Graf again in 1996. Her last Grand Slam final came at the French Open in 1998 (a few weeks after her father's death). She defeated world No. 3 Novotna in three sets and world No. 1 Martina Hingis in straight sets before losing to Sánchez Vicario in three sets.

After becoming a U.S. citizen in 1994, Seles helped the U.S. team win the Fed Cup in 1996 and 2000. She also won a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

In the spring of 2003, Seles sustained a foot injury that has sidelined her from the tour ever since. In February 2005, she played two exhibition matches in New Zealand against Navrátilová. Although Seles lost both matches, she played competitively and announced that she could return to the game early in 2006. She did not do so, however. In December 2007, she said to the press that Lindsay Davenport's successful return to the tour has inspired her to consider her own limited comeback to play Grand Slam tournaments and the major warm-up events for those tournaments. She said she will make a firm decision about the comeback in early 2008. Her first tournament probably would be in Key Biscayne, Florida in March.

Seles was listed as the 13th greatest player of all time (men and women) by (U.S.) Tennis magazine and was also one of 15 women named by Australian Tennis magazine as the greatest champions of the last 30 years (players were listed chronologically). Seles is also known as one of the greatest "big point" players of all-time, having tremendous mental fortitude during the toughest situations on the court.^{[citation needed]}

Like Maureen Connolly, whose career was cut short by injury, Seles's career most probably was affected by the stabbing incident and it is impossible to know the course of her career had this not happened. Her trajectory was indicative of a great career - during the height of her career, 1990-1993, she was almost unstoppable (lost only 19 matches).

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1990	French Open	Steffi Graf	7-6(6), 6-4
1991	Australian Open	Jana Novotná	5-7, 6-3, 6-1
1991	French Open (2)	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-3, 6-4
1991	U.S. Open	Martina Navratilova	7-6(1), 6-1
1992	Australian Open (2)	Mary Joe Fernandez	6-2, 6-3
1992	French Open (3)	Steffi Graf	6-2, 3-6, 10-8
1992	U.S. Open (2)	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-3, 6-3
1993	Australian Open (3)	Steffi Graf	4-6, 6-3, 6-2
1996	Australian Open (4)	Anke Huber	6-4, 6-1

Year	Championship	Opponent in Final	Score in Final
1992	Wimbledon	Steffi Graf	6-2, 6-1
1995	U.S. Open	Steffi Graf	7-6(6), 0-6, 6-3
1996	U.S. Open	Steffi Graf	7-5, 6-4
1998	French Open	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario	7-6(5), 0-6, 6-2

Legend (Singles) Tier I (9) Tier II (22) Tier III (9) Tier IV (1) Grand Slam Title (9) WTA Championship (3)

Titles by Surface Hard (28) Clay (14) Grass (1) Carpet (10)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	April 30, 1989	Houston, U.S.	Clay	Chris Evert	3-6, 6-1, 6-4
2.	March 25, 1990	Miami, U.S.	Hard	Judith Wiesner	6-1, 6-2
3.	April 1, 1990	San Antonio, USA	Hard	Manuela Maleeva	6-4, 6-3
4.	April 22, 1990	Tampa, USA	Clay	Katerina Maleeva	6-1, 6-0
5.	May 13, 1990	Italian Open, Rome, Italy	Clay	Martina Navratilova	6-1, 6-1
6.	May 20, 1990	Berlin, Germany	Clay	Steffi Graf	6-4, 6-3
7.	June 10, 1990	French Open	Clay	Steffi Graf	7-6(6), 6-4
8.	August 19, 1990	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Martina Navratilova	6-4, 3-6, 7-6(6)
9.	November 4, 1990	Oakland, USA	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	6-3, 7-6(5)
10.	November 18, 1990	WTA Championships, New York City, USA	Carpet (I)	Gabriela Sabatini	6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2
11.	January 27, 1991	Australian Open	Hard	Jana Novotná	5-7, 6-3, 6-1
12.	March 24, 1991	Miami, USA	Hard	Gabriela Sabatini	6-3, 7-5
13.	April 21, 1991	Houston, USA	Clay	Mary Joe Fernandez	6-4, 6-3
14.	June 9, 1991	French Open	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-3, 6-4
15.	August 18, 1991	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Kimiko Date	6-3, 6-1
16.	September 8, 1991	U.S. Open	Hard	Martina Navratilova	7-6(1), 6-1
17.	September 22, 1991	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Mary Joe Fernandez	6-1, 6-1
18.	October 6, 1991	Milan, Italy	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	6-3, 3-6, 6-4
19.	November 17, 1991	Philadelphia, USA	Carpet (I)	Jennifer Capriati	7-5, 6-1
20.	November 24, 1991	WTA Championships, New York City, USA	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 6-0
21.	January 26, 1992	Australian Open	Hard	Mary Joe Fernandez	6-2, 6-3
22.	February 9, 1992	Essen, Germany	Carpet (I)	Mary Joe Fernandez	6-0, 6-3
23.	March 1, 1992	Indian Wells, USA	Hard	Conchita Martínez	6-3, 6-1
24.	April 19, 1992	Houston, USA	Clay	Zina Garrison	6-1, 6-1
25.	April 26, 1992	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	3-6, 6-2, 6-3
26.	June 7, 1992	French Open	Clay	Steffi Graf	6-2, 3-6, 10-8
27.	September 13, 1992	U.S. Open	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-3, 6-3
28.	September 27, 1992	Tokyo, Japan	Carpet (I)	Gabriela Sabatini	6-2, 6-0
29.	November 8, 1992	Oakland, USA	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	6-3 6-4
30.	November 22, 1992	WTA Championships, New York City, USA	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	7-5, 6-3, 6-1
31.	January 31, 1993	Australian Open	Hard	Steffi Graf	4-6, 6-3, 6-2
32.	February 14, 1993	Chicago, USA	Carpet (I)	Martina Navratilova	3-6, 6-2, 6-1
33.	August 20, 1995	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Amanda Coetzer	6-0, 6-1
34.	January 14, 1996	Sydney, Australia	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	4-6 7-6(7) 6-3
35.	January 28, 1996	Australian Open	Hard	Anke Huber	6-4, 6-1
36.	June 23, 1996	Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Mary Joe Fernandez	6-0, 6-2
37.	August 11, 1996	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-1, 7-6(2)
38.	September 22, 1996	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-1, 6-4
39.	August 10, 1997	Los Angeles, USA	Hard	Lindsay Davenport	5-7, 7-5, 6-4
40.	August 17, 1997	Toronto, Canada	Hard	Anke Huber	6-2, 6-4
41.	September 21, 1997	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-1, 3-6, 7-6(5)
42.	August 23, 1998	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-3 ,6-2
43.	September 27, 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	4-6, 6-3, 6-4
44.	April 11, 1999	Amelia Island, USA	Clay	Ruxandra Dragomir	6-2, 6-3
45.	February 27, 2000	Oklahoma City, USA	Hard (I)	Nathalie Dechy	6-1, 7-6(3)
46.	April 16, 2000	Amelia Island, USA	Clay	Conchita Martínez	6-3, 6-2
47.	May 21, 2000	Italian Open, Rome, Italy	Clay	Amélie Mauresmo	6-2, 7-6(4)
48.	February 25, 2001	Oklahoma City, USA	Hard (I)	Jennifer Capriati	6-3, 5-7, 6-2
49.	September 16, 2001	Bahia, Brazil	Hard	Jelena Dokić	6-3, 6-3
50.	October 7, 2001	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	6-3, 6-2
51.	October 14, 2001	Shanghai, China	Hard	Nicole Pratt	6-2, 6-3
52.	February 17, 2002	Doha, Qatar	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	7-6(6), 6-3
53.	May 25, 2002	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Chanda Rubin	6-4, 6-2

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	May 13, 1990	Italian Open, Rome, Italy	Clay	Helen Kelesi	Laura Garrone Laura Golarsa	6-3, 6-4
2.	March 31, 1991	San Antonio, U.S.	Hard	Patty Fendick	Jill Hetherington Rinaldi Stunkel	7-6(2), 6-2
3.	May 12, 1991	Italian Open, Rome, Italy	Clay	Jennifer Capriati	Nicole Bradtke Elna Reinach	7-5, 6-2
4.	May 10, 1992	Italian Open, Rome, Italy	Clay	Helena Suková	Katerina Maleeva Barbara Rittner	6-1, 6-2
5.	September 21, 1997	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Ai Sugiyama	Julie Halard-Decugis Chanda Rubin	6-1, 6-0
6.	September 27, 1998	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Anna Kournikova	Mary Joe Fernandez Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario	6-4, 6-4

1989: Dallas (lost to Martina Navratilova) 1989: Brighton (lost to Steffi Graf) 1991: Indian Wells (lost to Martina Navratilova) 1991: San Antonio (lost to Steffi Graf) 1991: Hamburg (lost to Steffi Graf) 1991: Rome Masters (lost to Gabriela Sabatini) 1991: San Diego (lost to Jennifer Capriati) 1991: Oakland (lost to Martina Navratilova) 1992: Rome Masters (lost to Gabriela Sabatini) 1992: Wimbledon (lost to Steffi Graf) 1992: Los Angeles (lost to Martina Navratilova) 1992: Montreal (lost to Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario 1993: Paris (lost to Martina Navratilova) 1995: US Open (lost to Steffi Graf) 1996: US Open (lost to Steffi Graf) 1996: Oakland (lost to Martina Hingis)

1997: Miami Masters (lost to Martina Hingis) 1997: Charleston (lost to Martina Hingis) 1997: Madrid (lost to Jana Novotná) 1997: San Diego (lost to Martina Hingis) 1998: French Open (lost to Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario) 1998: Moscow (lost to Mary Pierce) 1999: Toronto (lost to Martina Hingis) 1999: Tokyo (Princess Cup) (lost to Lindsay Davenport) 2000: San Diego (lost to Venus Williams) 2000: New Haven (lost to Venus Williams) 2000: WTA Tour Championships (lost to Martina Hingis) 2001: San Diego (lost to Venus Williams) 2001: Los Angeles (lost to Lindsay Davenport) 2002: Tokyo (lost to Martina Hingis) 2003: Tokyo (lost to Lindsay Davenport) 2003: Dubai (lost to Justine Henin-Hardenne)

1997: Chicago (with Lindsay Davenport) 1998: Philadelphia (with Natasha Zvereva) 1999: Miami Masters (with Mary Joe Fernandez)

Tournament	Career Win-Loss	Career SR	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Australian Open	43-4	4 / 8	A	A	A	W	W	W	A	A	W	A	A	SF	A	QF	SF	2R
French Open	54-8	3 / 11	A	SF	W	W	W	A	A	A	QF	SF	F	SF	QF	A	QF	1R
Wimbledon	30-9	0 / 9	A	4R	QF	A	F	A	A	A	2R	3R	QF	3R	QF	A	QF	A
US Open	53-10	2 / 12	A	4R	3R	W	W	A	A	F	F	QF	QF	QF	QF	4R	QF	A
Grand Slam SR	N/A	9 / 40	0 / 0	0 / 3	1 / 3	3 / 3	3 / 4	1 / 1	0 / 0	0 / 1	1 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 3	0 / 4	0 / 3	0 / 2	0 / 4	0 / 2
Grand Slam Win-Loss	180-31	N/A	0-0	11-3	13-2	21-0	27-1	7-0	0-0	6-1	17-3	11-3	14-3	16-4	12-3	7-2	17-4	1-2
WTA Tour Championships	18-6	3 / 9	A	QF	W	W	W	A	A	A	4R	4R	QF	A	F	A	QF	A
Tokyo	9-4	0 / 4	NH	NH	NH	NH	NH	A	A	A	QF	A	A	SF	A	A	F	F
Indian Wells1	17-5	1 / 6	NH	A	A	F	W	A	A	A	A	A	A	3R	QF	2R	SF	A
Miami	32-7	2 / 9	2R	A	W	W	QF	A	A	A	A	F	3R	4R	SF	A	SF	A
Charleston	12-5	0 / 5	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	F	SF	3R	SF	A	3R	A
Berlin	5-0	1 / 1	A	A	W	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A
Rome	21-5	2 / 7	A	A	W	F	F	A	A	A	A	3R	3R	A	W	A	A	2R
Toronto/Montreal	31-3	4 / 7	A	A	A	A	F	A	A	W	W	W	W	F	A	SF	A	A
Moscow	3-1	0 / 1	NH	NH	NH	NH	NH	NH	NH	NH	A	A	F	A	A	A	A	A
Finalist	32	N/A	0	2	0	6	4	1	0	1	2	4	2	2	3	2	1	2
Titles Won	53	N/A	0	1	9	10	10	2	0	1	5	3	2	1	3	4	2	0
Overall Win-Loss	595-122	N/A	5-3	33-8	54-6	74-6	70-5	17-2	0-0	11-1	47-8	45-13	46-13	38-13	58-13	40-10	47-14	10-7
Year End Ranking	N/A	N/A	86	6	2	1	1	8	-	1	2	5	6	6	4	10	7	60

• NH = tournament not held
• A = did not participate in the tournament
• SR = the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played
• 
  ¹ The Indian Wells tournament achieved Tier I status only in 1996.

Year	Majors	WTA wins	Total wins	Earnings ($)	Money list rank
1990	1	8	9	1,637,222	2
1991	3	7	10	2,422,206	1
1992	3	7	10	2,622,352	1
1993	1	1	2	437,588	16
1994	DNP
1995	0	1	1	397,010	16
1996	1	4	5	1,154,499	5
1997	0	3	3	914,020	5
1998	0	2	2	1,021,672	6
1999	0	1	1	744,741	8
2000	0	3	3	1,140,850	5
2001	0	4	4	627,211	15
2002	0	2	2	1,096,630	8
2003	0	0	0	276,213	38
Career	9	44	53	14,891,762	8

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• Seles is left-handed.
• Seles was the first female tennis player to win her first six Grand Slam singles finals: 1990 French Open, 1991 Australian Open, 1991 French Open, 1991 U.S. Open, 1992 Australian Open, and 1992 French Open.
• Seles won the first five set women's singles match in many years, in 1990 against Gabriela Sabatini at the year end WTA Tour Championships.
• Until her loss to Martina Hingis at the 1999 Australian Open, Seles had a perfect record at the event (33-0), which is the longest undefeated streak for this tournament. It also marked her first defeat in Australia, having won the Sydney tournament in 1996.
• Seles was the first female player since Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling in 1937 to win the women's singles title three consecutive years at the French Open. Chris Evert, however, won the title four consecutive times she played the tournament (1974, 1975, 1979, and 1980). In 2007, Justine Henin won her third consecutive French Open singles title.
• Seles' final against Martina Navratilova at the 1991 U.S. Open was the only all left-handed women's singles final of a Grand Slam event.
• The age gap between Seles (17 years old) and Navratilova (34 years old) at the 1991 U.S. Open was the largest in a Grand Slam women's singles final.
• Seles appeared on the sitcom The Nanny as herself.
• Seles won the inaugural Sanex Hero of the Year award in 2002. This award was voted by fans around the world.
• Young Elders, a band from Melbourne, Australia sent their song called Fly Monica Fly to Seles while she was recuperating from the 1993 stabbing incident. According to her autobiography ^[2] the song provided inspiration to her at that time and Seles subsequently met the band (who later changed their name to The Monicas) following her victory at the Australian Open in 1996.
• Singer/songwriter Dan Bern has a song about Seles on his Fifty Eggs album entitled "Monica".
• With eight Grand Slam singles titles before her 20th birthday, Seles holds the record for most Grand Slam singles titles won as a teenager.

• List of female tennis players

• Monica Seles profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Fed Cup record
• Monica Seles unofficial website
• Monica Seles Site -unofficial website, has Video clips of her matches and a very active forum
• Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition (IIMSAM)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf	World No. 1 March 11, 1991 - August 4, 1991 August 12, 1991 - August 18, 1991 September 9, 1991 - June 6, 1993 August 15, 1995 - November 3, 1996 (with Graf) November 18, 1996 - November 24, 1996 (with Graf)	Succeeded by Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf Steffi Graf
Awards
Preceded by Arantxa Sanchez Vicario	WTA Most Improved Player 1990	Succeeded by Gabriela Sabatini
Preceded by Steffi Graf	WTA Player of the Year 1991-1992	Succeeded by Steffi Graf
Preceded by Steffi Graf	ITF World Champion 1991-1992	Succeeded by Steffi Graf
Preceded by Meredith McGrath	WTA Comeback Player of the Year 1995	Succeeded by Jennifer Capriati
Preceded by Mary Pierce	WTA Comeback Player of the Year 1998	Succeeded by Sabine Appelmans
Preceded by Merlene Ottey	United Press International Athlete of the Year 1991, 1992	Succeeded by Wang Junxia
Preceded by Bonnie Blair	Flo Hyman Memorial Award 2000	Succeeded by Lisa Leslie

v • d • e WTA World No. 1s in Women's tennis
Tracy Austin · Jennifer Capriati · Kim Clijsters · Lindsay Davenport · Chris Evert · Steffi Graf · Justine Henin · Martina Hingis · Amélie Mauresmo · Martina Navrátilová · Arantxa Sánchez Vicario · Monica Seles · Maria Sharapova · Serena Williams · Venus Williams

v • d • e Australian Open women's singles champions*

* Open Era • (1969-70-71) Margaret Smith Court • (1972) Virginia Wade • (1973) Margaret Smith Court • (1974-75-76) Evonne Goolagong • (1977[Jan]) Kerry Reid • (1977[Dec]) Evonne Goolagong • (1978) Chris O'Neil • (1979) Barbara Jordan • (1980) Hana Mandlíková • (1981) Martina Navrátilová • (1982) Chris Evert-Lloyd • (1983) Martina Navrátilová • (1984) Chris Evert-Lloyd • (1985) Martina Navrátilová • (1987) Hana Mandlíková • (1988-90) Steffi Graf • (1991-93) Monica Seles • (1994) Steffi Graf • (1995) Mary Pierce • (1996) Monica Seles • (1997-99) Martina Hingis • (2000) Lindsay Davenport • (2001-02) Jennifer Capriati • (2003) Serena Williams • (2004) Justine Henin-Hardenne • (2005) Serena Williams • (2006) Amélie Mauresmo • (2007) Serena Williams

v • d • e French Open women's singles champions*

* Open Era • (1968) Nancy Richey • (1969–70) Margaret Smith Court • (1971) Evonne Goolagong • (1972) Billie Jean King • (1973) Margaret Smith Court • (1974–75) Chris Evert • (1976) Sue Barker • (1977) Mima Jaušovec • (1978) Virginia Ruzici • (1979–80) Chris Evert-Lloyd • (1981) Hana Mandlíková • (1982) Martina Navrátilová • (1983) Chris Evert-Lloyd • (1984) Martina Navrátilová • (1985–86) Chris Evert-Lloyd • (1987–88) Steffi Graf • (1989) Arantxa Sánchez • (1990–92) Monica Seles • (1993) Steffi Graf • (1994) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario • (1995–96) Steffi Graf • (1997) Iva Majoli • (1998) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario • (1999) Steffi Graf • (2000) Mary Pierce • (2001) Jennifer Capriati • (2002) Serena Williams • (2003) Justine Henin-Hardenne • (2004) Anastasia Myskina • (2005–07) Justine Henin

v • d • e US Open women's singles champions*

* Open Era • (1968) Virginia Wade • (1969-70) Margaret Smith Court • (1971-72) Billie Jean King • (1973) Margaret Smith Court • (1974) Billie Jean King • (1975-78) Chris Evert • (1979) Tracy Austin • (1980) Chris Evert-Lloyd • (1981) Tracy Austin • (1982) Chris Evert-Lloyd • (1983-84) Martina Navrátilová • (1985) Hana Mandlíková • (1986-87) Martina Navrátilová • (1988-89) Steffi Graf • (1990) Gabriela Sabatini • (1991-92) Monica Seles • (1993) Steffi Graf • (1994) Arantxa Sánchez Vicario • (1995-96) Steffi Graf • (1997) Martina Hingis • (1998) Lindsay Davenport • (1999) Serena Williams • (2000-01) Venus Williams • (2002) Serena Williams • (2003) Justine Henin-Hardenne • (2004) Svetlana Kuznetsova • (2005) Kim Clijsters • (2006) Maria Sharapova • (2007) Justine Henin

v • d • e WTA Tour Championships singles champions*

(1972-73, 1975, 1977) Chris Evert • (1974, 1976) Evonne Goolagong • (1978-79, 1981, 1983-86) Martina Navrátilová • (1980) Tracy Austin • (1982) Sylvia Hanika • (1987, 1989, 1993, 1995-96) Steffi Graf • (1988, 1994) Gabriela Sabatini • (1990-92) Monica Seles • (1997) Jana Novotná • (1998, 2000) Martina Hingis • (1999) Lindsay Davenport • (2001) Serena Williams • (2002-03) Kim Clijsters • (2004) Maria Sharapova • (2005) Amélie Mauresmo • (2006-07) Justine Henin-Hardenne

v • d • e Female tennis players who have won 3 or more Grand Slam singles titles in one season
1928–29: Helen Wills Moody (3) • 1953: Maureen Connolly (4) • 1962–65–69–70–73: Margaret Court (3–3–3–4–3) • 1972: Billie Jean King (3) • 1983–84: Martina Navratilova (3–3) • 1988–89–93–95–96: Steffi Graf (4–3–3–3–3) • 1991–92: Monica Seles (3) • 1997: Martina Hingis (3) • 2002: Serena Williams (3)