Prodigy won eight grand slams as a teenager and was on track to break all records until a shocking on-court attack
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Shortly before his death in 1990, the tennis fashion designer, historian and author Ted Tinling, whose immersion in the women’s game began as Suzanne Lenglen’s personal umpire in the 1920s and who knew all the greats from Helen Wills Moody to Steffi Graf, delivered an extraordinary prophecy.
“Monica Seles is the most electric happening in tennis since Lenglen,” he said. “She lights up the court and can hit the ball harder than anyone I have ever seen.”
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/03/the-greatest-monica-seles-warrior-queen-whose-reign-was-shattered under the title “The greatest: Monica Seles – warrior queen whose reign was shattered | Sean Ingle”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
