Monica Seles

Grainger, for the ones who get it done.

It's April 1995, two years since the darkest hour in tennis, when the top player in the world, the teenager tipped to take the women's game to new heights, Monica Seles, was stabbed in the back by a spectator live on TV.

Quarterfinals, Hamburg, sunny day, we all have seen it.

must have been absolutely shocking for her.

But at its core, the shadow of that dark day is ever present in both the new protocols and the record books.

There's these question marks, aren't they? We'll never ever know what her career would have been in terms of the history books because it was denied.

So I always felt that What befell Monica Seles that day was one story that

never really ended.

That's what kind of keeps the flame going i- and is how I think of the framework.

So when you take that and you look at, uh, what I'm talking about with matter, let's take someone who your audience is, is very familiar with, 'cause I've heard her on, on your show, uh, Monica Seles.

So Monica Seles is, uh, someone who I really admire because when I, when I think of, of Monica, she wasn't someone who got to be, uh, to the level that she got to from sheer talent alone.

I mean, that woman was driven, and when you talk to other people who were on the tour, she was one of the most disciplined, one of the most hardworking tennis players, uh, that there ever was.

But when I think about the way she tells her story is she had that foundation.

And so it really gets in the execution phase.

But what, what I found was that once the engine is running, once you're, you're passion struck and you step into the daily work, without mattering, that execution becomes a brutal physical and mental grind.

So I, I mean, Monica Seles wouldn't have spent eight hours on the tennis court day in, day out if she didn't pr- possess the mattering effect, right? Because-

When they get on the bench or whatever they're doing and they just start...

It sounds like, you know, Monica Seles with tennis.

It's like, "What? What?"

Attacked to the [beep].

...

I'm still going to stick, and I've mentioned it a few times, Steffi Graf and Monica Seles, uh, would be, you know, my top, uh, in the tennis world.

And then kind of my, um, I don't know, so out there, I don't even know if he knows anything about tennis or loves the sport of tennis, is Dave Chappelle.

I think he is ...

All right.

My number two is Monica Seles.

I know.

She's number three.

Hmm

...

Monica Seles and Martina Hingis, probably the most professional practices.

You got it done, you did it right, and then you left.

It woke tennis up, if you like, to the, to the threat from society, the threat beyond the lovely lawns and tennis stadiums and tennis grounds that this sport is played out on.

And discover why everyone was left wondering, "Where is Monica Seles?"

Everybody will have impression that this biggest empty space.

For example, next year watching the draw in Roland Garros and saying, "Where is Monica Seles?"

We'll talk to one of the few people who spoke to Monica when she disappeared from public life, and discover the true horror that befell her after the physical wounds had healed.

I felt privileged that I was able to spend time with her to try, in the best way I could, to tell her story and explain to people how although she was now physically well, this scar went far deeper than the small blemish in the small of her back.

This is not being taken seriously.

The courts, the police are not helping here.

Like, it l- we shouldn't be trying to hide ourselves or, or small ourselves.

Do you remember Monica Seles? Monica Seles.

Ugh.

Yeah.