Which player was stabbed at wimbledon

There were the memories of the attack itself and its lingering aftershocks—anxiety and depression by day, troubled sleep by night. There was the fate of Parche. Declaring that he had no desire to kill Seles, but only wanted to injure her just long enough to let Graf regain the No. And then there was the tennis world. As for Graf, she visited Seles in the hospital in Hamburg that weekend, but from then on, the two had minimal contact.

The Graf-Seles connection was a far cry from the days when Evert and Navratilova would share a bagel while waiting to play one another in a Grand Slam final. Seles would spend more than two years recovering. Run by Dr. Mary B. The Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle that will earn a reputation for its use in exotic locales, debuts at an auto show in Amsterdam on April 30, Live TV.

This Day In History. History Vault. Great Britain. Great Depression. Sign Up. Early US. World War II. Vietnam War. No words needed to explain why this incredible woman is a particular inspiration to me. Facebook Twitter Email. Petra Kvitova shares harrowing bond with Monica Seles. A few minutes later, still conscious, Seles was evacuated to the local hospital.

Blood could be seen on her white shirt, dripping down from her wound. The 8, people in the crowd were shocked and so was the rest of the world when the news spread. After a few days in a local hospital, she flew off to the USA to continue her recovery. The doctors were confident she would be fully healed in a three-month delay. The tournament went on anyway, and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario claimed the title against Steffi Graf , Monica Seles would not play tennis again in and had dropped to No 8 in the world by the end of the year.

The psychological wound proved to be much deeper than the knife-blow itself. Although she was physically ready to play just a few months afterwards, it would take over two years before she played on the tour again. She also learned shortly after the stabbing that her father and lifelong coach was sick with cancer.

In the summer of , she first played an exhibition match with Martina Navratilova, who had retired the year before. Seles then attended the Toronto Open with a special status of world No 1 ex-aequo and claimed the title without dropping a single set.

A few weeks later, she was beaten in the final of the US Open by Steffi Graf in three sets , , At the start of , aged 22, she won her last Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open. In the final, she defeated Anke Huber, from Germany , After that, she would remain in the top 10 until the end of , but suffering with food disorders and weight issues that she described in her book, she would never lift a Grand Slam trophy again.