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Absent from the tennis scene since a crazed fan stabbed her in 1993, Monica Seles will return with a share of the world's No. 1 ranking, the Women's Tennis Association said on Thursday. Seles will split the top spot with Steffi Graf for at least the first six tournaments that she plays; Graf will be top-seeded at the upcoming U.S. Open for tournament-draw purposes...
...STEFFI GRAF No love lost in a singles match against her toughest opponent: German tax collectors...
RETURNING. MONICA SELES, 21, ex-tennis star; from a two-year hiatus following a knifing by a crazed Steffi Graf fan. Seles' comeback will begin with an exhibition against Martina Navratilova next month in Paris...
...expectations. Just an opportunity to bask one more time in the genteel applause of the faithful at Centre Court. After all, Martina is 37, and the serve no longer sizzles. Wimbledon and its slippery green amalgam of fescue and ryegrass are now the domain of five-time champion Steffi Graf, 25. It's a surface for the young and the restless. On grass either you are quick or you are quickly dismissed...
...sport to train the way men do. Yet this stubborn competitor was always fragile, often on the edge of a "Martina meltdown." No one wins everything, but it seemed Navratilova should. Her fans still agonize over the 1989 U.S. Open, when she was two games away from beating Steffi Graf in straight sets, or the 1981 U.S. Open, which she lost to Tracy Austin in two tie breakers after winning the first set 6-1. She blames mostly her shotmaking, not her nerves. "If I had had a backhand down the line instead of only crosscourt," she says, "I would...