Monica Seles Net Worth and Know her earnings, career, personal life, achievements

Monica Seles is one of the top former American Professional tennis players with a net worth of around $40 million. She is the member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. She has won nine Grand Slams single title award in her career. She was considered as world’s no 1 player in 1991-92.

Know the earnings of Monica sales                                   

Monica Seles’s earned $13 million throughout her tennis career. Her prize money was US$14,891,762 altogether.

After getting retired, She got high rates every year from her various investments in yielding.

She also adds to her net worth through endorsement deals. She was the brand ambassador of the popular brand like Nike, where she earned $25 million. From Yonex brand, she received $18 million.

She also has invested in many stocks, Tax-free bond and in real estate.

How was the early life of Monica Seles?

 Monica Seles was born on December 2, 1973, in Yugoslav. In 1994 she became a naturalized American citizen and in 2007 she received a Hungarian citizenship. Her parents are Ester and Karolj. Seles started to play tennis when she was just 5. She was coached by her father. He made tennis fun for her by drawing the picture as he was a cartoonist. He is the first to recognize her skills and the one who helped her develop her two-handed style for forehand and backhand.

At the age of 11, she was coached by Jelena Gencic and she won Junior Orange Bowl in 1985.

In 1986, Seles along with her brother, Zoltan moved to the United States. She then joined Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy for 2 years. After 9 months her parents moved to Florida to stay with her and Zoltan.

She became the youngest tennis player to play the French Open at the age of 16

An obsessed fan of Steffi Graf stabbed the world’s no-1 tennis star, Monica Sele

When Sales was playing a match with Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg and when she was winning, a crazy Steffi Graf’s fan stabbed her with a 9-inch knife. She was immediately taken to the hospital and had been rescued. It just took a week for her to heal. Perhaps she took 2 years break from Tennis.

House and car of Monica Seles 

 She has a mansion in Florida with a tennis court at the area of 5,871-square-foot which she sold in $1.4 million.

She owns Toyota Land Cruiser.

 Personal life of Monica Seles

On April 21, 2009, after being stabbed by a man, Monica Seles released her memoir about her depression and eating disorders. Her father eventually died after being diagnosis by cancer and this tragic event made a huge impact on her life.

She got married to her longtime billionaire boyfriend, Tom Golisano. They are still continuing their relationship and going strong. However, Tom has already divorced 3 women.

Career Achievements of Monica Seles

She started her career by winning 36 matches and by winning 6 continues tournaments in Miami, Lipton Player’s Championship. During the same tournament, she won the Hard Court Championship in the US. In 1991 she won Australian Open championship and just at 16, she defeated the former youngest winner, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Again in 1992, she won both Australian and French open.

All together Seles has won 22 titles and has reached 33 finals out of 34 tournaments she played.