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TIL Monica Seles won 8 tennis Grand Slams by the age of 19. In 1993, an obsessed fan of Seles's main rival, Steffi Graf, ran onto court with a knife and stabbed Seles in the back. Although she eventually returned to tennis, Seles only won 1 additional Grand Slam for the remainder of her career.

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