On April 30, 1993, Guenter Parche, an unemployed German with an unhealthy obsession with Steffi Graf, attacked Monica Seles on court in Hamburg.He confessed to wanting to hurt her to keep her out of the game for a long period of time.
Parche plunged the knife between Seles's shoulder blades, later telling police he wanted to"hurt Seles so much that she couldn't play tennis for a long time." Despite winning another Grand Slam in 1996, to bring her total to nine, she never fully recovered from the mental anguish of the attack. Parche lived the remainder of his life in a single room in a nursing home in the central German village of Nordhausen.
Graf visited Seles in hospital in the days after the attack. The American later said she was"dismayed" that the tournament continued, saying she realised"it's all about the money."