Monica Seles Inducted into Hall of Fame
January 15, 2009 by Julie Bonner
Filed under Tennis
On Thursday, January 15th, women’s tennis legend Monica Seles was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Seles’s career consisted of nine Grand Slam singles titles and the stabbing incident that anyone who follows tennis remembers. She returned to the tour after being stabbed.
During a conference call, Seles said, “It was just a lot of highs and a lot of lows. One of the things that always kept me going was my love of the game.”
Other achievements of Seles’s include winning 53 singles titles. She won four at the Australian Open (which starts in just a few days!), three at the French Open and two at the U.S. Open.
Seles became the youngest French Open champion, at the young age of 16.
“As a 16-year-old, everybody says, ‘Oh, you’re going to be great, blah, blah, blah,” she said. “Until you actually do it, you don’t believe it.”
Monica Seles is one of my favorite tennis legends of all time. I will never forget watching her match in Germany when the man climbed over the stands and stabbed. What a scary moment that was, but she bounced back and was able to continue on to the finals.
She definitely deserves a spot in the Tennis Hall of Fame.
Source: Tennis.com
Image Credit: Bauer Griffin
