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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...
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.
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 · On April 30, 1993, Guenter Parche, an unemployed German with an unhealthy obsession with Steffi Graf, walked onto the court at Hamburg’s Citizen Cup and stabbed tennis star Monica Seles.
Apr 30, 2013 · And just as she did in 1995, two-and-a-half years removed from that vile stabbing on April 30, 1993.
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.
Oct 14, 1993 · Monica Seles said Wednesday that she was “shocked and horrified” because the man convicted of stabbing her in the back during a tennis match at Hamburg, Germany, was given only a two-year...
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...
Monica Seles, a talented tennis player, had her career tragically disrupted when she was stabbed in the back during a match in 1993. Seles had already achieved great success in her early...
