22 - Monica Seles’s Breakthrough Spring

In the spring of 1989, 15-year-old Monica Seles burst onto the women’s tennis scene, making history at her very first professional tournament in Washington, D.C. Against a fiercely competitive field—including the likes of Steffi Graf, Helen Kelesi, Natalia Zvereva, and Zina Garrison—Seles proved she was far more than just a prodigy. Her fearless run and upset victories over top ten players signaled the arrival of a n