Steffi Graf etched ... However, Graf won their next eight matches to finish their head-to-head at 29-11. Graf was the undisputed queen of the WTA Tour when Seles debuted in the late 1980s.

Should she do so, the Belarusian will join Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles and Martina Hingis on a list that will go down in a history as a very exclusive club.

Perhaps this is an odd thing to say at the beginning of a farewell column about Monica Seles, but that’s what ... The imposingly built and athletic Steffi Graf was an intimidating athlete ...

It was early evening on April 30, 1993, and about 6,000 spectators at the Rothenbaum Tennis Club in Hamburg, Germany, were watching the quarterfinal match between Monica Seles and Bulgaria’s ...