Monica Sales Former No one and nine time Grand Slam Champion annouces retirement from professional tennis at the age of 34.
Monica has won nine Grand Slam singles titles and 53 tournaments in her career.She had not played competative professional tennis since 2003,due to sucessive foot injuries.'Tennis has been and will always be a huge part of my life. I have for sometime considered a return to professionl play,but I have now decided not to pursue that.' Seles said on Thursday.
The native of Yogoslav won her first Grand Slam in 1990 French Open and became the world number one in 1991,staying at the top of the ranking till April 1993,when she was stabbed Gunter Parche a fan of than struggling Steffi Graf,in Hemburg Germany.
Seles is the only women number one who played a double handed forehand as well as backhand. Several top rankers have used have used two hands for backhand shots, like Chris Everts,Kim Clijisters, and Venus and Serena Williams.But Seles remains the only one to use both the hands for forehand and backhand shots.
Larry Scott CEO of WTA said 'Monica Seles is one of the great champion of WTA Tour,will remain an inspiration and roll model for millions of fans throughout the world.', 'No one will ever forget the fierce determination and the will to win that Monica bought to the court.'
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