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"There would be pictures of 'Monica's spare tyre' - that would be the headline," Seles said. "I dreaded those fortnights. My heaviest ever was 1997 Wimbledon. I was 35lb overweight.
Monica Seles (born December 2, 1973) is a former world No. 1 tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. She won nine major singles titles, eight of them as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one while representing the United States.
Monica Seles was world number one when she was stabbed by a crazed fan. She reveals how it threw her into a spiral of binge-eating and how she fought her way back to happiness
Monica Seles had to overcome the most traumatic event any athlete could imagine. She had to overcome a severe eating disorder. She had to overcome the death of her father.
Her 30th birthday approaching, unable to work out because of her foot, Seles panicked that she would gain even more weight. Instead, without any trainers or nutritionists to tell her what to do...
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a man rushed onto the court and stabbed Seles in the back with a nine-inch-long knife. The attacker was identified as Günter Parche, a fan of Steffi Graf, who was Seles...
It took another three years for Seles – a 2009 International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee – to officially announce her retirement. But a decade later, her impact on the sport is still being felt. Her two-hands-off-both-wings, grunt-and-grind power game simply isn’t one to fade with time.
