NEWPORT, R.I. — Monica Seles has been elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
The nine-time major champion will be inducted July 11.
Joining her in the hall’s 2009 class Thursday are 1972 French Open champion Andres Gimeno, ATP co-founder Donald Dell and the late Robert Johnson, who pioneered the integration of tennis at the junior level.
Known for her two-tone grunts and two-handed swings, Seles won 53 singles titles, including four at the Australian Open, three at the French Open and two at the U.S. Open.
When she first rose to No. 1 in 1991, she was 17, at the time the youngest woman to have topped the rankings. But her career was interrupted at its height two years later when she was stabbed at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.
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