Open in addition to her French Open victories. She had defeated Graf in three out of four major finals matchups and taken over the No. She led Maleeva , when the players took a water break. Then the unthinkable happened, a moment that shocked the tennis world and beyond and seared its image into the minds of fans watching on that grievous day.
A scream and then crowd murmurs were recorded on the broadcast before cameras cut to a man in the stands being restrained by spectators. The camera then panned to Seles standing and clutching her upper back with her right hand before falling to the ground where she was attended by others.
Maleeva held a towel over her face as she looked on with fear and anxiety. Seles was then helped to her feet and taken off the court on a stretcher. Her attacker intended to stab her a second time. Seles recounted the attack in her book "Getting a Grip. His arms were raised above his head and his hands were clutching a long knife. He started to lunge at me again. I didn't understand what was happening. The assailant was year-old German Gunter Parche. Was the attack a terrorist incident? Was it politically motivated in the aftermath of Cold War Germany?
Parche was a Graf fan. He admitted during his confession that he simply wanted to see the German tennis player return to the No. Seles was standing in her way.
Seles avoided damage to her lungs and spine in the attack. In August , Seles, who became a U. The next month, she lost the U. Open finals to Steffi Graf. In , a foot injury forced Seles out of competition, and she played only sporadically.
In February , Seles officially retired. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! The report, which featured graphic photographs showing U. On April 30, , at exactly pm, London's iconic Big Ben clock stops ticking. For 54 minutes, the most famous clock in the world failed to keep time.
Completed in , Big Ben has a long history of technical issues. The first bell cast for the tower cracked before it Originally called Mesh, the browser that he dubbed WorldWideWeb became There were the memories of the attack itself and its lingering aftershocks—anxiety and depression by day, troubled sleep by night.
There was the fate of Parche. Declaring that he had no desire to kill Seles, but only wanted to injure her just long enough to let Graf regain the No. And then there was the tennis world. As for Graf, she visited Seles in the hospital in Hamburg that weekend, but from then on, the two had minimal contact. The Graf-Seles connection was a far cry from the days when Evert and Navratilova would share a bagel while waiting to play one another in a Grand Slam final.
Seles would spend more than two years recovering. All you need to know ahead of Friday's Warriors vs. Bulls game, including how to watch and stream the contest. Gary A. The Thunder surprised by drafting Josh Giddey No. Friends for a long time, Landry sent OBJ a message on social media upon news of the former Browns receiver signing with the Rams:.
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