biography
pronunciation:
[selesh]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1973– )
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| biography:
| Tennis player, born in Novi Sad, Union of Serbia and Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia). In 1990 she became the youngest woman to win a ‘Grand Slam’ singles title in the 20th-c, winning the French Championship at 16 years 169 days (a record broken by Hingis in 1997). She was also the youngest player to win the Australian Open in 1991, and before she reached 18 she had won three out of four Grand Slam singles titles. In 1993 she was unable to play for some months following an incident on court in which she was stabbed by a deranged fan of Steffi Graf. Though seldom the same force subsequently, she won the 1996 Australian Open title. She became a US citizen in 1994. |
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