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However, on April 30, 1993, while playing a match, she was the victim of an on-court attack when an obsessed fan of Seles' rival Steffi Graf stabbed Seles in the back with a 9-inch (23 cm) knife as she was sitting down between games.
Nov 16, 2009 · Top women’s tennis player Monica Seles is stabbed by a deranged German man during a match in Hamburg. The assailant, a fan of German tennis star Steffi Graf, apparently hoped that by injuring...
Apr 27, 2023 · Gunter Parche, the man who stabbed Monica Seles in the back with a knife during a match 30 years ago, died in August last year. Parche was 68 when he breathed his last and was unwell for a long...
Apr 30, 2020 · Seles avoided damage to her lungs and spine in the attack. The knife plunged an inch into her back, but missed vital organs and required stitches and a short hospital stay.
Apr 30, 2020 · TBT, 1993 Hamburg: Monica Seles' stabbing changes tennis history. Upset by the teenager's ascent, Gunter Parche—an unemployed German lathe operator—wanted nothing more than to see Steffi Graf...
Apr 30, 2023 · Thirty years have passed since a crazed Steffi Graf fan stabbed tennis star Monica Seles on court in Hamburg, but witnesses can still recall the attack, describing it as "like a horror movie".
Günter Parche, an obsessed fan of Steffi Graf, ran from the middle of the crowd to the edge of the court during a break between games and stabbed Seles with a boning knife between her shoulder...
May 2, 1993 · A 38-year-old German lathe operator told police he stabbed Seles, the world's No. 1 tennis player, in the back during her match Friday so that Graf, the current No. 2, could surpass her in the...
May 1, 1993 · Tennis champion Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a spectator Friday during a match in Germany, but the 19-year-old star miraculously escaped serious injury, authorities said.
Apr 30, 2013 · And just as she did in 1995, two-and-a-half years removed from that vile stabbing on April 30, 1993. Today marks the 20th anniversary of that event, one that changed the course of sports...
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