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The nine -time Grand Slam champion, Monica Seles, is talking about her health for the first time after she was diagnosed three years ago with a rare Neuromuscular autoimmune disease.
He International Tennis Hall He revealed his diagnosis of Miasthenia Gravis in a recent interview with Associated Press, hoping to raise awareness about the disease, which he recognized that he had not met before.
Monica Seles prepares to serve the ball in the 2000 Lipton Tennis Championship in Crandon Park in March 2000. (PHOTOS RVR/ USA Today Sports)
“When they diagnosed me, I thought, ‘What?’ ‘”Seles told The Outlet. “So this is where, I can’t emphasize enough, I would like someone like me to speak about it.”
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Seles, 51, was diagnosed with the disease in 2023. He told the AP that he worried when he noticed the double vision while playing tennis. Missing a ball was something that stood out for the legendary tennis star, whose career had four titles from the Australian Open, three titles of the France Open and two Us open victories.
“I would be playing with some children or relatives, and I would miss a ball. I thought, ‘Yes, I see two balls.’ Obviously, these are symptoms that cannot ignore,” Seles said. “And, for me, it is when this trip began. And it took me a long time to really absorb it, talk openly about it, because it is difficult. My daily life affects.”
Miastenia Gravis is described by the Cleveland Clinic as an autoimmune disease that causes weakness of the skeletal muscle. It affects about 20 out of every 100,000 people around the world and is more common in women around 40 years old and men over 60 years.
Monica Seles keeps her eyes on the tennis ball while serving for Shaun Stafford in the United States during her third female singles match of the US Open on September 1, 1989 at the National Usta Tennis Center in Queens, New York. (Simon Bruty/Allsport/Getty Images)
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The blurred and double vision are just some of the common symptoms, which also include muscle weakness in arms, hands, legs and neck and difficulty speaking, swallowing or chewing. There is no cure for myasthenia gravis, but the treatment is available to help control symptoms.
Seles called his approach to diagnosis a “restart”, something he has had to do many times during his tennis career.
“I had that, in terms of tennis, I suppose, restore, restart hard, sometimes. I call my first hard restart when I arrived in the United States as a 13 -year -old boy (from Yugoslavia). I did not speak the language; I left my family. It is a very difficult time. Then, obviously, becoming a great player, it is a readjustment, because the money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money (Everything), and it is difficult at 16.
Monica Seles speaks during a press conference on the 4th of the WTA of BNP Paribas Singapore in Singapur Sports Hub on October 26, 2016 in Singapore. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
Seles moved away from sport for about two years after they stabbed her in Germany during a match in April 1993. He returned to win her room Australian open Title in 1996, his last Grand Slam title.
“Be diagnosed with myasthenia gravis: another restart. But one thing, as I tell the children that mentor: ‘You have to always adjust. That ball is bouncing and you just have to adapt,” Seles told the AP. “And that’s what I’m doing now.”
