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- <text id=93TT1639>
- <title>
- May 10, 1993: Close Cut
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 26
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- <body>
- <p> A fanatic fan of Steffi Graf's stabs Monica Seles in the
- back--literally
- </p>
- <p> When a burly fan lunged out of the stands and stabbed
- top-ranked tennis pro Monica Seles in the upper back during a
- Hamburg tournament Friday, the first thought was of Balkan
- politics. Seles was born in Serbia, and there have been threats
- against her in the past. But the issue turned out to be
- top-level tennis, not war. "He did not want to kill Monica
- Seles," said a police spokesman. "He only wanted to injure her
- so Steffi Graf could become No. 1 again." The assailant, a
- 38-year-old German lathe operator, nearly succeeded. His 4.5-in.
- boning knife barely missed Seles' spinal cord, and it put a
- 1/2-in.-deep cut in the muscles of her upper back. Doctors at
- a nearby hospital closed the wound and predicted that it would
- heal quickly. Nevertheless, the wound put her out of the Hamburg
- tournament--she was top seed and was leading Bulgarian
- Magdalena Maleeva 6-4, 4-3 when she was stabbed--and trainers
- were uncertain if she would be fit to defend her title May 24
- in the French Open.
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- </body>
- </article>
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