“The ball bounces and you have to adapt”. From the slam wins to the knife in the back, from bulimia to rare disease: the ordeal of the champion forced to reset in life for the umpteenth time
“Why always to me?”. Monica Seles would have every right to ask him. Yet, at 51 years old and many more storms, he learned that committing himself is useless: the only one is to stay afloat and look for another landing. “As I always say to the guys I follow: the ball bounces and you have to adapt”. This is what she is doing now, for the umpteenth time, since MiaStenia Gravis, a neuromuscular autoimmune disease that causes tiredness and weakness, has been diagnosed in 2022. A disease for which there is no cure, and which makes her difficult to dry her hair with the hairdryer, she who pulled rights and showers (rigorously two hands) with unreachable violence. Telling about the latter obstacle that she saved her in front, Seles remembered every time she had to start from scratch, forget everything she knew and reset. Just like a tennis player at the end of each game, of every set, every game.