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Who was monica seles playing in a tennis tournament in hamburg, germany when she got stabbed?

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An obsessed fan of Seles rival Steffi Graf stabbed Seles in the back with a 9-inch (23 cm) long knife as she was sitting down between games on April 30, 1993, while she was playing a match against Magdalena Maleeva.

Explanation:

Seles was born into a Hungarian family in Yugoslavia. She has an older brother named Zoltán, and her parents are Ester and Karolj (Eszter and Károly in Hungarian). She started playing tennis when she was five years old, with her father as her coach. Her father was a professional cartoonist who worked for decades at the newspapers Dnevnik and Magyar Szó. He drew pictures for her to make tennis more fun. He is the one who developed her two-handed forehand and backhand styles. Jelena Geni became her coach later on. She won the Junior Orange Bowl tournament in Miami, Florida, when she was 11 years old, attracting the attention of tennis coach Nick Bollettieri. Seles and her brother Zoltán moved from Yugoslavia to the United States at the beginning of 1986.

There, she enrolled at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, where she trained for two years and practiced until March 1990. Seles's parents moved to Florida with Zoltán and her nine months after they arrived at the Academy.

At the age of 14, Seles participated in her first amateur professional tournament in 1988. She became a full-time professional the following year, on February 13, 1989, and won her first career title at Houston in May 1989, defeating Chris Evert, who was about to retire. Seles lost to then-world number one in the semifinals of her first Grand Slam singles tournament at the French Open a month later. 1 Graf, Steffi. Seles was ranked no. 1 at the end of her first year on the tour. 6.

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