Monica Seles said Goodbye to tennis
So, Monica Seles is officially out of the professional tennis world. To be honest, I thought that’d happened years ago. If you haven’t played in almost 5 years, how can people assume you haven’t dropped out yet? Well, but now it’s for sure and for good. She probably woke up yesterday and it just hit her: She was never going to play tennis again but she didn’t want to face it. Now, at age 34, Monica made the announcement to the public.
Seles was definitely a key figure of tennis for many years, one of the first true female tennis stars in the world. Not many of the current ones can match what Monica Seles did during her career (with girls like Ana Kournikova calling themselves “pro tennis players” you could think a real star should feel insulted! Don’t get me wrong; Kournikova is hot as hell, but she should be modeling tennis gear or something, not making a fool of herself at the court). Not to say that I don’t really think other players have had to put up with so much pressure and weird dangerous stuff. You’re right, I’m talking about one of the most vivid memories we will have of her for the rest of our lives: Monica Seles stabbed by a crazy fan during a match. Damn, if you survive that and keep playing, you deserve some serious respect!
There’s no doubt Monica Seles leaves with a lot of things to be proud of, like almost Grand Slam titles, a ranking of #1 in 1991, 53 total career titles and a bronze medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, representing USA. That’s why this is some kind of important loss to the US (she’s Yugoslavian but became US citizen in 1994, for those who didn’t know). But even with those gaps in time when she didn’t play at all, it’s a bigger loss to the tennis world.