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Originally Posted by Nadal Fan
Today is the anniversary of when Monica Seles was attached on court and stabbed. I remember hearing about that, but I was too young to know how dominate she was. Looking at her results she was absolutely amazing, winning a grand slam at 16 then won 3 more the next year, 3 more the year after that and then won the AO. After the attack she missed the next 10 grand slam events before returning to make the finals of the US Open and winning the AO. She had 8 Grand Slam titles as a teenager!! What an incredible player, had this not occurred we maybe talking about her as the GOAT of women's tennis.
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Seles was so good that a crazed Steffi Graf fan took matters into his own hands in Hamburg on that fateful day. It's interesting because Steffi was a heck of a player who retired from the game pretty early and likely could have won a few more Grand Slams. The other side of that coin is would she have won as many Slams as she did if Seles hadn't been out of commission for as long as she was (and wasn't the same player when she returned).