Comparing Monica here to Monica before the stabbing is so heartbreaking 😢; she was so sad, and lost in a way ; before the stabbing she was so positive, full of energy, and she was so self confident, and confident in life ! To me she'll always be the best tennis player ever 💗

She was robbed as going down as the GOAT. She is still a legend. Thank you, Monica!

What a fantastic interview. Who knows what could have been if this had not happened. Her and Steffi, what a great rivalry they had in the '90's.

The world has been so unfair to Monica!

Probably the most heartbreaking interview ever ❤

What a beautiful soul she is. So many emotions and she was able to get the words out. The interviewer asking her if she had forgiveness was premature and so not called for. There's an arc of healing and she was barely granting interviews. An event changed her life forever. Tennis is not just a physical sport. It is highly emotional, and logical, yet filled with stress and ability to think out of the box and take risks, all rolled into one. The player has to be so focused and block out the crowds and watch the ball and know the opponent's game and anticipate his moves. All of this was thrown into the garbage when she was stabbed at such a young age, coping with being a champion and now cut down and impeded from doing what she loved. PTSD is common and she just has such a good nature and is willing to struggle with making her way back!

You got to love her. She is so gracious. Without that stabbing, she'd have a chance to be one of the greatest of all time. I wouldn't forgive that insane low life back stabber at all.

thanks for all these videos

Monica forever 😍

SHE'S SO. SAD HERE!!! POOR GIRL DIDN'T DESERVE THAT!!

Monica forever.

Monica Seles is my IDOL in TENNIS WORLD

If HAMBURG never happened, she would be unreachable forever

monica you are the very best ..... u destroyed graf very easily

I still love you Monika,like the First day I so you on tv.God bless you

Without that stabbing incident I wonder how many GS Steff would have won. Seles managed to get into the head of Steffi just like what Djokovic is doing to Nadal these days.

Seles said that Gabriela Sabatini was very worried about her, visited her, and didn't want not to freeze her rank instead Wta voted against

I can't believe she was stalked by him and that the tournament didn't provide her with basic security. She should have never played in Germany.

Interesting what she said about Steffi. Cant believe she didnt follow uo in her after the initial brief visit. Really sad

My champion..everyone's champion!!

She probably could have had the greatest record in tennis if it was not for the stabbing incident. She dominated the sport. Shame on that Steffi Graf fanatic who stabbed her, the quack German justice system, and the selfish WTA players who voted against freezing her rank while Seles was in recovery. I hope they get their karma.

feel so sad..here the anchor talks of australian openn comeback (1994) even she talks of training... sadly we got her end of 95... n never the seles before.. what happenned btwn why it took so so long after this interciew... any interviews u guys have? after this one and before she actually comes back.. pls share if any.. n thanks a ton for this one also... i dnt knw i may b wrng , but i feel she needed stronger coucelling mental rehab as this was major psychological trauma for a teen (infact anyone).. was there a lapse in psych rehab? dnt knw.. shes very strong girl.. it took too long.. for such strong girl like her.. sad

She was only 20. She should have come back within the year. Just a shame. Would graf had as many slams?

It's sad that she had to experience the stabbing. She looks like Helen Keller.

Its 🥜 how can People take Pictures in a Moment off Despair,it so agly🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️😲😲😢😢you can see it’s all about Money making ,absolutely no Feelings involved! This Reporter pushes to,go back talke about it,can’t believe it 😲😲🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️😩😩😢😢

Steffi Graff is wildly considered as THE GOAT, then this young player of 16 years old win Roland-garros and is the n°1 WTA for 1991 and 1992 cutting straight up the long serie of Steffi between 1987 to 1996... That's what *Monica* was back in the days, oh and btw she reached the top 10 of the WTA rankings at 15 years and 9 months...

That bastard should be punished! Just a joke he's on probation!

she is the best evaaaa

КАКАЯ КРЯСЯТИНА!!🤣🥎🤣

Three impressions stand out from this remarkable interview, the best account of the Hamburg attack and its consequences. 1. How pretty Monica Seles was at that age. No wonder, her father Karolj was a terribly handsome man, as we can notice in practically all the videos chronicling her big matches, with him applauding enthusiastically each of her brilliant shots (including those of her opponents, by the way, showing fairness in his genuine enthusiasm for the beauty of tennis). While her mother Eszter stayed with her face buried in some paper, in spite of all the excited reactions of the crowd, looking a bit like, if you twisted your mind a little, a gentle, amusing copy of the famous witch in Hansel und Gretel. Monica here let her hair return to its natural dark brown color. Much more seductive, appealing, and genuine-looking than the blonde tint she had toyed with earlier on when she wanted to celebrate her entry into the French Open at Roland Garros. 2. How immensely lucky Monica Seles turned out to have been during the attack. This seems a paradox, but it is perfectly true. Immensely lucky she indeed got that the initial stroke of the knife happened by pure chance to prove so superficial and so ineffectual. Parche missed the spine, he didn't sever any major ligament or tendon in Monica's back, and the blade didn' t go very deep. In fact she recovered physically pretty quickly from a 2 cm wound. Her two expert surgeons in Vail, CO, assured her she would be good for competition again after four months of rehab. She would only miss two major tournaments, the French Open and Wimbledon, but be up to par for the 1993 US Open. But Parche was at the time about to strike a second time, had his blade up in the air, ready to strike with all his force, and that second time could have been a paralyzing or lethal one. Monica's immense luck was that Parche was instantly garroted and immobilized by a couple of men, before he could even begin to lower the blade and plunge it again into Monica Seles's back. That is precisely what saved her whole life. Parche's lawyers' defense later centered on obliterating or at least obfuscating his intentions to murder. They made him declare that he only wanted to stop Monica Seles from preventing his idol Steffi Graf to regain the No.1 ranking that had been hers until Seles appeared on the tennis stage. But the intensity of his passion for Graf and his rage against Seles incline us to believe that his intent was to destroy Monica Seles completely, and possibly to kill her. That is essentially what his lawyers were able to leave out, blotting out any murderous intent from his testimony and their description of the facts. They saved their client from any severe punishment. The second strike could have damaged Monica Seles beyond any repair and any rehab. And that is the thought that kept haunting the young girl for months, even years after the stabbing. She felt that it was perfectly obvious to the thousands in the full stadium that Parche had come out to try to kill her. And she could not accept the fact that the German court didn't see it her way. She couldn't accept losing this big match played on the court of life to the German justice system. It is this legal loss that especially rankled her, fueling her bitterness and anger, keeping her ruminating about the unfairness of life, and destroying whatever peace of mind she could salvage. She found consolation and refuge from her mental torments in indulging her love of sweet things, abandoning herself to an obsessive, uncontrolled eating binge. In the process she lost interest in tennis for more than two long years, forgoing any habits of practice for 28 months - an eternity in a tennis career, from which no player could ever hope to recover . In spite of her best resolve, once she was able to let go of her debilitating rancour, and resuscitated her interest in the game, having missed not just 2, but 10 major tournaments (that, in her narrowly self-centered view of the world, she considered might have been "hers"), this dramatic hiatus made it impossible for her to regain all of her previous form. The reborn champion had the same name, but she was no longer the same player. She didn't lose too much of her shot-making skills, her neuronal circuits remaining firmly anchored in her brain and her distinctive hitting style left apparently undamaged. But the additional weight (an anathema to professional tennis players) and loss of years of practice irremediably damaged her mobility, degraded her endurance, and undermined the ability of her weakened muscles and bones to handle the intense physical forces of competition . 3. How psychologically fragile Monica Seles was as an adolescent of 19. She may have looked ferocious on the court, but off the court she was all putty, previously a giggling, fun-loving teenager, and now, in quasi-retirement, unable to resist the devastation of her mental torments. Her amygdalae and hippocampus were in full drive, continuously revisiting the memories of the attack, and rehashing the futility of her fight to get justice in the German courts. Off the courts, she showed not a single ounce of resilience. And the blame can undoubtedly be laid to her education and training by her father. All her life since her younger years had been an unstoppable series of successes, and she had reached the summit of the tennis world like in a Cinderella dream turned reality. In her fantasy world, the new princess of tennis had never encountered any serious adversity. She had absolutely no experience in how to cope with the hard knocks of life when they abruptly came up. In fact the very attitude of her trainer and coach, her Dad Karolj, had been to protect his beloved child at every step from any psychological damage since age 5. "Monica, no need to take any loss seriously. It's not worth it. Tennis is only a game." This pleasant fiction was the mantra he kept durmming into her. And Monica swallowed it whole. It remained the motto of her career as she was turning into a ferocious competitor, soon a young professional at 15. But this so-called "game" (in Karolj's reductive notion) had, in a bizarre rapid twist, turned from a pleasant child's pastime into a real life epic, with all-out fights and devastating losses, those that couldn't just be talked away. And nothing, and even less her trainer/coach/father's methods, had prepared Monica to develop some fiber of resilience. This weakness was what led to her mental collapse after the stabbing, as well as the intolerable pain of losing her match against the German courts, not mentioning all the other considerable benefits from her star status. That was the opposite of the harsh training received by little Andre Agassi from his ruthless disciplinarian father, determined to make his son an Olympic champion, as compensation for his own failure in realizing his dream. This brutal education made Agassi tough as nails as a child and ready to take on whatever vicious blow fate happened to throw at him. By contrast, it is beyond question that the underlying cause of Monica's mental collapse was the result of her father coddling her far too long while she was climbing to the summit of the tennis world. He still treated the professional champion she had become as if she still was his darling baby. His over-lenient handling of his beloved daughter left her psychologically much too soft, too unprepared, without any hard mental armor against the serious blows that have to inexorably come along in real life.