For Seles, life is all about hitting reset button after myasthenia gravis diagnosis

Monica Seles

Monica Seles first noticed the symptoms of myasthenia gravis - a neuromuscular autoimmune disease - while she was swinging a racket the way she'd done so many times during, and after, a career that included nine Grand Slam titles and a place in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

The 51-year-old Seles, who won her first major trophy at age 16 at the 1990 French Open and played her last match in 2003, said she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis three years ago.

"I had to, in tennis terms, I guess, reset - hard reset - a few times. I call my first hard reset when I came to the US as a young 13-year-old [from Yugoslavia]. Didn't speak the language; left my family. It's a very tough time. Then, obviously, becoming a great player, it's a reset, too, because the fame, money, the attention, changes [everything], and it's hard as a 16-year-old to deal with all that. Then obviously my stabbing - I had to do a huge reset," Seles said.

"And then, really, being diagnosed with myasthenia gravis: another reset,'" she added. "And that's what I'm doing now."

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