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This video is not intended to report news or verify facts, but rather to share perspectives, reference information, and draw lessons.
Explore Monica Seles' journey from a modest childhood in Novi Sad to tennis stardom, resilience through tragedy, and life of luxury and legacy.
Key Takeaways
- Resilience and determination can overcome severe adversity and personal tragedy.
- Early family support and creative resourcefulness can be crucial in nurturing talent.
- Monica Seles' impact on women's tennis was profound and historic despite career interruptions.
- Success is not only measured by titles but also by the ability to inspire and endure.
- Life after sports can include personal fulfillment and continued influence beyond the court.
Summary
- Monica Seles grew up in a modest family in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, practicing tennis on a makeshift court in a parking lot.
- Her father, a cartoonist, creatively supported her early tennis training despite limited resources.
- At age 11, Monica won the Junior Orange Bowl in Miami, catching the attention of coach Nick Bollettieri.
- The family moved to Florida for Monica to train at the Bollettieri Academy, marking a new chapter in her life.
- By 16, Monica was a rising tennis star, winning her first WTA title and reaching Grand Slam semifinals.
- Between 1990 and 1992, she won eight Grand Slam singles titles before turning 20, dominating women's tennis.
- She held the world number one ranking for 178 weeks and was considered a potential greatest female player.
- Her career was tragically interrupted in 1993 when she was stabbed during a match in Hamburg.
- Despite physical and emotional setbacks, including autoimmune disease and depression, she made a remarkable comeback.
- Today, Monica enjoys a life of luxury and legacy, inspiring many as a Hall of Fame tennis icon.
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Once a teenage girl who crushed the entire tennis world, only to suddenly collapse on court.
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From a knife wound in the back by a craze fan, once hidden away in a room, consumed by obsessive cravings and debilitating depression.
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And then rising again in a body weakened by an autoimmune disease, it sounds more like a literary tragedy than the true story of a sports legend's life.
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Millions would have likely given up, succumbing to such agonizing pain before the engulfing darkness swallowed all hope.
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Yet today, she stands tall across million dollar estates in Florida and New York, cruises on luxury yachts, flies on a private jet alongside her billionaire husband.
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Is honored in the Hall of Fame and inspires thousands as an enduring icon.
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How did she manage to rise from the darkest abyss?
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What secret allowed a girl repeatedly knocked down by fate to still reach glory?
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Instead of throwing away her racket and sinking into the darkness.
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That is the miraculous journey we will explore today.
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The story of Monica Seles, the indomitable Queen of World Tennis.
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Childhood on a Novi Sad parking lot.
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If you saw Monica Seles today, stepping out of a spacious Florida home, gently walking her dog.
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It would be hard to believe that everything began on a gray parking lot in Novi Sad, where the tennis court lines were temporarily marked with white chalk on cracked asphalt.
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Novi Sad in the 1970s was still part of Yugoslavia, a city on the banks of the Danube.
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Peaceful, but with the heavy feeling of the post-war socialist era.
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On December 2nd, 1973, in a small apartment.
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A girl was born into a Hungarian minority family, Monica.
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Her father was Carol, her mother Esther, and her older brother Zoltan.
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The family wasn't wealthy, but the home was filled with newspapers, pencils, drawing paper.
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And the sports stories Carol passionately recounted to his children.
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Carol was a well-known cartoonist and illustrator in Novi Sad.
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Drawing for papers like Magyar So and Nevnik.
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He loved art as much as he loved sports.
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Especially tennis.
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When Zoltan started practicing, his little sister Monica stood on the sidelines, her eyes wide.
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Watching the balls fly back and forth, both curious about and envious of the small trophies on the shelf.
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Few would have guessed that this tiny, shy girl would be the one to change the history of women's tennis.
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Around the age of five to six, Monica first picked up a racket.
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There weren't many courts to rent.
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Novi Sad only had a few clay courts back then, usually packed with adults.
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So, Carol came up with highly DIY solutions.
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He strung a rope across two cars parked in the alley and marked the baseline with chalk on the parking lot surface, transforming the resident's parking spot into the family's private center court.
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To make practice less boring, the artist father used his own pen.
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He drew Jerry the Mouse, Tom the Cat, Baby Rabbits, Mickey, and Donald Duck onto old worn-out tennis balls.
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For Monica.
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The drill was no longer hit the target spot, but hit Jerry, then hit Tom.
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Those powerful swings, accompanied by the small grunt that naturally escaped her throat.
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Began to emerge during those afternoons.
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The Seles family life revolved around two things: Carol's newspaper deadlines and the practice sessions on the parking lot.
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To buy rackets, strings, and shoes.
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He sometimes had to drive all day to Italy, a nearly 10-hour round trip, just to bring back a few better rackets for his two children.
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In their small apartment, the old rackets were carefully lined up, their grips wrapped in tape, like treasured artifacts.
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Whenever a string broke.
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Monica looked at her father with a sense of apprehension, understanding how many extra hours he would have to work to replace it.
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Monica entered small local tournaments early on.
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At nine, she won her first championship.
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Though she admitted she didn't fully understand the scoring system then, she only knew keep hitting, keep running, keep shouting.
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And find every way to keep the ball in play longer than her opponent.
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Cheap plastic trophies began to appear on the shelf.
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Competing with her father's cartoons.
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Then, in 1988, at the age of 11, she left her world for the first time to touch the American dream.
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A trip to Miami for the Junior Orange Bowl.
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On paper, it was just a junior tournament, but for Monica, it was a doorway to a different universe.
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Beautiful courts, new balls, opponents from all over the world.
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She unexpectedly won the championship, defeating young players who were much more systematically prepared.
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In the stands, a bald man wearing sunglasses watched intently.
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That was Nick Bollettieri.
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Who would later bring the entire Seles family to Florida.
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And from the Bauzakova Ulika parking lot of yesteryear.
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Monica Seles' journey to conquer the world officially entered a new chapter.
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From Phenomenon to Enduring Icon.
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When Nick Bollettieri invited the Seles family to Florida, it wasn't just a chance for a better life.
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It was almost a one-way ticket.
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Imagine yourself in their shoes leaving Novi Sad, the familiar language, friends, and even the parking lot that had become center court.
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For a distant country with exactly one clear asset, the racket in the 11, 12-year-old girl's hand.
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At the Bollettieri Academy, Monica quickly stood out.
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Small in stature, but her two-handed strokes on both sides were like sledgehammers.
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And the grunt accompanying every swing made everyone on the court turn their heads.
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At 14, she played a few professional tournaments.
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In early 1989, she officially went on tour.
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Entering a world she had only seen on television before.
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And she didn't come to be a backdrop.
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Just months later, still in 1989.
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Monica won her first WTA title in Houston, defeating Chris Evert herself in the final.
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The legend she had only known through her father's newspaper illustrations and stories throughout her childhood.
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By that year's Roland Garros, she had reached the Grand Slam semi-final in her very first attempt.
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Finishing the season ranked world number six.
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At just 16, she was already among the names every player had to watch.
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In 1990, the real storm began.
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Monica won the Roland Garros title, becoming the youngest champion in the tournament's history at 16.
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From 1990 to 92, Seles won eight women's singles Grand Slams, three Australian Opens, three Roland Garros, and two US Opens.
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Believe it or not, all of this happened before she turned 20.
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At her peak.
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From the 1990 French Open to the 1993 Australian Open, Monica won eight out of 11 Grand Slams she entered.
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A performance that led many experts to believe she could have become the greatest female player in history, had things gone smoothly.
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In March 1991, Monica ascended to world number one, holding the top spot in the WTA rankings for a total of 178 weeks.
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Finishing the year at number one three times.
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But then came the fateful day that changed her entire life and broke the history of women's tennis.
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April 30th, 1993, in Hamburg, during the quarter-final match against Magdalena Maleeva.
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While sitting on a changeover with her back to the stands, a man rushed down and stabbed a knife directly into Monica's back.
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Some reporters at the time recounted that, for the first few seconds, they thought it was some kind of tournament.
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Stunt, until they saw the blood soaking through her light-colored uniform.
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The physical wound was stitched up.
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But her career was abruptly halted.
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For over two years.
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Monica was absent from every tournament.
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During that time, Steffi Graf returned to dominance, winning six of the 10 Grand Slams Seles missed.
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Rankings and statistics began to redraw history without her name in the biggest events.
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Many would have collapsed entirely then.
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Monica was different.
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In 1995, after becoming a US citizen in 1994, she decided to return.
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The WTA debated whether to keep her number one ranking.
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Eventually reaching a compromise, Seles and Graf would share the co-number one position initially.
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But what people remember is not the ranking discussion, but how she stepped out onto the court at the Canadian Open.
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Her first tournament after the Hamburg incident.
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The announcer's voice rang out her name.
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And the stands rose in a standing ovation.
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Monica didn't just play well.
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She played as if she had never left.
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Winning streak after streak.
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Taking the title while losing a total of only 14 games, a record still mentioned today.
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The following month, she reached the US Open final.
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And in early 1996, she won the Australian Open, her ninth and final Grand Slam.
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After that.
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Her results graph began to curve downward.
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Her body endured more injuries, her mind was no longer as sharp.
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Always shadowed by the fear from the stands.
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Monica still reached the Roland Garros final in 1998, won a bronze medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
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And clinched a few more WTA titles.
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But the unbeatable feeling had left with the knife wound in Hamburg.
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In 2003, she played her last professional match at Roland Garros.
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Quietly withdrawing from the tour for a few years before officially announcing her retirement in 2008.
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A year later.
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In 2009, Monica Seles was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
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After the Hall of Fame.
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Monica's career took a new direction.
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She wrote her memoir, Getting a Grip.
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Recounting her depression and binge eating disorder after the stabbing.
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Discussing how sports was both a weapon and a healing balm.
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She participated in television programs.
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Worked as a speaker.
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Became the face of a campaign to raise awareness about binge eating.
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And more recently, the autoimmune disease Myasthenia Gravis MG, a rare muscle disease she was diagnosed with around 2022 and publicly shared in 2025.
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If the 1990-1993 period was the world number one player career.
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Then from 2010 until now.
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Monica Seles' career has been the journey of a storyteller, using her glory and her trauma to light the way for those struggling with mental pain.
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Chronic illness and sets that can't be measured by a scoreboard.
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And that journey, as of 2025, is still ongoing.
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The 32-year age gap marriage and money scandals.
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Many assumed Monica Seles' life after retirement would be peaceful, financially secure.
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Her name already cemented in history.
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Yet, just when everything seemed most stable, she entered a new chapter.
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Even more controversial than her Grand Slam finals, her relationship with an American billionaire.
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32 years her senior.
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Tom Golisano, the name associated with Monica since 2009, is no ordinary man.
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He is the founder of Paychex, a payroll and human resources services corporation.
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A former owner of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres and a three-time candidate for governor of New York State.
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A man born in 1941, wealthy enough that Forbes ranks him among America's billionaires.
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Standing next to the girl who was a teenage phenomenon at the 1990 Roland Garros.
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The contrast is a movie script in itself.
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They began dating around 2009.
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New York newspapers first ran the story when Golisano appeared next to Monica at charity events.
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Later confirming he was dating a tennis star.
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Many tennis fans initially thought it was just a rumor.
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By 2014, when Golisano was 72, 73 and Monica was around 40, 41, he officially announced their engagement.
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While sports pages ran headlines like Seles nets herself a 72-year-old billionaire.
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You can guess the reaction.
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Right on one side, a legend who was stabbed on court, who spoke about depression and binge eating.
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On the other, a billionaire famous for hating taxes and willing to move his residence from New York to Florida to save tens of thousands of dollars a day in taxes.
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Public opinion immediately split, some congratulated.
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Others were curious, and some were mocking.
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The age difference was scrutinized no less than Monica's weight was scrutinized in the past.
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According to Celebrity Net Worth and his personal Forbes profile, Monica Seles married Tom Golisano in 2014 after about five years of dating.
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From then on.
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She fully entered the world of the American ultra-rich, vacation homes on lakes in New York State, real estate in Florida, private flights.
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And multi-million dollar fundraising galas.
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For someone who once practiced tennis on a parking lot in Novi Sad.
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This was practically a different universe.
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But the media storms Monica couldn't control.
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Came with the financial glamour.
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In 2017, 2018, Golisano became the subject of nationwide ridicule when he publicly announced he wouldn't pay a school tax bill of about $90,000.
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145,000 for his lake house on Canandaigua.
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Because the front lawn was attacked by wild geese with their droppings, he sued the local government.
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Arguing the droppings severely reduced his property's value and only agreed to pay the taxes if the town dealt with the flock of geese.
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Besides her husband's tax scandal.
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Monica herself had been the focal point of major debates before, though she was the victim, not the cause.
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After the 1993 stabbing, the German court decided to only sentence Gunter Parche, the man who stabbed her from behind in Hamburg.
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To two years of probation and psychological treatment.
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On the grounds that he was mentally disturbed and would not reoffend.
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Parche was actually only held in pre-trial detention for a few months before being freed.
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Living out the rest of his life in a nursing home.
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This decision outraged the sports world and the public, the victim lost two years of her career and carried lifelong trauma.
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While the attacker walked free.
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Subsequent legal analysis called this a classic example of a justice system's inexplicable leniency.
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The name Monica Seles, once again, appeared at the center of a debate about justice this time.
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Her role was as the person abandoned by the very system that should have protected her.
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On the other side of her personal life.
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Monica's scandals have a very human touch.
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When she revealed her nearly 10-year struggle with binge eating disorder.
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Her history of eating in shame and despair, and then became the spokesperson for the pharmaceutical company.
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Shire, the producer of the first FDA approved drug to treat this eating disorder.
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Some online comments suggested she was promoting drugs.
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But most fans saw a different angle, a person once so ashamed that she hid her illness from her own family, was now brave enough to stand up and tell everything so that others could feel less alone.
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Affluent life compensating for emotional trauma.
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Behind every story about illness, the 1993 stabbing, or the life resets.
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There is a very concrete layer of reality, Monica Seles is one of the wealthiest female players in history.
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And that wealth is built on clear figures.
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In terms of pure tennis earnings, official WTA statistics and her own career archives record, Monica Seles earned an approximate $14,891,762 prize money during her career.
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With 53 WTA titles and nine Grand Slams.
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Achieving a singles win rate of nearly 83%.
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In 1991, she set a record as the female player with the highest prize money earned in a single season.
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Approximately $2.5 million from tournaments alone.
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Before her 17th birthday.
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Seles surpassed the $1 million prize money mark.
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Putting her among the earliest earning female stars in WTA history.
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The compounding interest comes from off-court sources.
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Financial statistics from sources like Celebrity Net Worth, Economic Times, and 2024, 2025 summaries consistently placed Monica's net worth around $50 million.
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The figure that recurs across multiple sources.
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This is the result of prize money.
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Sponsorship deals with sports equipment, apparel, and shoe companies.
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Non-tennis endorsement contracts.
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Book royalties.
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And post-retirement speaking engagements.
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Coupled with personal financial investments.
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In Sarasota, Florida, she once owned a home of about 5,800, 5,900 square feet in the exclusive Laurel Oak Country Club community.
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Including the main house, a private tennis court, a pool, a garage, and a garden on a property of over 1.5 acres.
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The house was built in the early 1990s.
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Associated with her throughout her career peak.
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And was listed for sale in 2014 for $1.85 million.
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Finally closing at around $1.4 million in 2015.
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In an interview with a local newspaper during the sale.
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Monica stated the reason frankly.
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The house is too big for me now.
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Showing this was an asset she directly owned and managed for many years.
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On the other side of the US.
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Investigations into her husband's taxes and real estate revealed that Monica is listed as the owner of a condo in Manhattan.
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New York, valued at approximately $800,000.
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With a property tax bill of about $4,000 per year.
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This apartment was used by the press as a point of comparison when contrasting the comfortable tax rate in New York City with the hefty taxes for large properties in upstate areas.
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This is Monica's northern base.
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An ideal address, convenient for moving between media events, tournaments, and charity galas.
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Regarding cars.
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Supercars or collections.
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The key point is no serious source records Monica Seles owning a supercar garage like entertainment stars.
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The rare times her name is associated with the cars.
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Are in an event context, such as when she appeared and posed with the Mercedes pace car at the Miami Grand Prix in 2000.
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Based on what the press has disclosed.
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It can be said that Monica's spending style does not focus on showing off or racing supercars.
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Her husband, billionaire Tom Golisano.
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Owns a 73-meter superyacht named Laurel, built by Delta Marine, which was once one of the largest private yachts built in the US.
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The Laurel is estimated to be worth $75 million.
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Accommodating about 12 guests and over 20 crew members.
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With interiors designed by Donald Starkey, boasting every luxury of a seven-star hotel at sea.
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In a lawsuit related to the cost of redecorating the yacht.
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American media detailed that Monica Seles personally testified in court, recounting her shock over the cost of the interior furnishings during a 2014 voyage.
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To the point that there were too many pillows to sit comfortably on the seats.
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This small detail clearly shows, although the Laurel is an asset legally owned by Golisano.
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Monica uses and lives on the yacht as a personal retreat, a luxurious lifestyle involving the sea.
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A captain and a professional service team.
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Besides the yacht, civil aviation records also show that Golisano owns a Gulfstream G5 registered N54TG.
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A luxury jet model worth tens of millions of dollars, typically used by billionaires for cross-continental flights.
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Again.
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The asset is in her husband's name.
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But in reality, Monica is the one accompanying him on these flights, attending Grand Slams as a guest, going to charity events, or simply traveling between Florida, New York, the Finger Lakes region.
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Without needing to wait in airport security lines like ordinary people.
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Regarding the real estate on her husband's side.
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Besides the lake house on Canandaigua in upstate New York, which spans about five acres.
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The couple also has a home in Naples, Florida.
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And what about the power parties?
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Instead of showing off nightclubs or loud yacht parties.
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Monica Seles' name appears most frequently in the context of charity galas, television talk shows, and sports entertainment events.
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Archives from the show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and similar shows list her as a guest alongside names like Smokey Robinson.
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Tom and Rosanne Arnold.
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In episodes discussing celebrity party secrets from the 1980s, 1990s in New York.
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She once shared a stage with Mayor David Dinkins and Mary Jo Fernandez in the Blue Tennis Court event on the deck of the Intrepid.
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A blend of sports, politics, and urban PR.
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If one were to zoom in purely on tangible assets.
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Monica Seles' portrait includes an estimated $50 million net worth.
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Nearly $15 million in career prize money.
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Formerly owned at real estate in Sarasota and an approximately $800,000 apartment in New York.
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Along with the privilege of using the yacht, Laurel, the Gulfstream private jet.
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And the lakeside mansion of her billionaire husband.
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Not to mention a highly intangible soft asset.
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The ability to walk into any party room from a charity gala to a yacht deck as both a Grand Slam legend and a member of America's ultra-rich elite.
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The future still holds new sets.
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Her current life, viewed from the outside, has a very different rhythm from her 20s on tour.
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Instead of waking up early for practice, flying to Melbourne or Paris.
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Monica starts her day slower, morning in Florida with sunlight streaming through the window, a cup of coffee.
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And light exercises to keep her muscles from protesting due to Myasthenia Gravis.
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It's the same Monica.
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But her voice is slower.
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Each word seemingly more carefully weighed.
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She talks about having to stop and rest during long walks.
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About not being able to play tennis with children as long as before.
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And about the persistent fatigue that outsiders find hard to understand.
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At home.
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The role of billionaire's wife is still there.
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With meetings, trips alongside Tom Golisano, and conversations about taxes, real estate, and charitable foundations.
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But with age.
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Monica seems to be drawn closer to her roots, the girl from Novi Sad once again finds joy in the very small things.
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An afternoon sitting on the porch looking at the lake.
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A visit to a children's camp.
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A sports workshop for kids.
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Or simply the moment she doesn't have to go to the hospital.
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Monica Seles' future, if viewed by the rankings.
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Ended in 2003, the day she played her last professional match.
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But if viewed as an ordinary person's life.
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That future is still long and very busy.
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Immediately.
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She continues to be the central face of the Myasthenia Gravis campaign with Argenex.
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At the US Open and many community events across the US.
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In parallel.
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She maintains her dialogue about mental health and eating disorders.
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Topics she opened up after publishing her memoir.
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In the eyes of rare disease organizations.
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Monica is a rare all-star, she has the sports story to attract an audience.
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And the genuine experience of illness to create connection.
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And who knows.
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On a very near day.
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When you turn on the TV to watch the US Open.
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Amidst the young faces vying for the ball on the court.
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You might see a different frame, Monica Seles standing at the edge of the court.
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No longer holding a racket, but holding a microphone.
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Continuing the story of resilience, of illness, and of how to live fully.
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Even when the body is no longer as perfect as it once was.
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Monica Seles is not just the girl who once dominated Grand Slams.
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Or the woman who lives in a world of yachts, private jets, and million dollar estates.
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She is living proof that even when life pushes you into tragedy repeatedly.
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You can still stand up, embrace the scars, and keep moving forward.
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If her journey resonates with you.
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Perhaps it's time for you to play your own set.
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Instead of abandoning your racket halfway through.
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