| "Monica, we love you!" a man shouts during
tonight's first set, but the support Seles is receiving
goes beyond love or pity. It's as if by enduring five years
of bizarre, sad, unjust and very public setbacks, the
24-year-old Seles has become one of the
few millionaire athletes with whom even the cynical can
identify. Who could call her just another spoiled tennis
brat? She has won nine Grand Slam singles titles, but no
one has proved more vulnerable—to a madman's knife in
1993, to clouds of depression,
to life's brutal hits. For anyone who has experienced grief
or loss, for anyone over 20, that is, the sight of Seles in
this summer of mourning, walking between points with
downcast expression, hitting with fury, sets off emotional
depth charges. She
knows what we
know. |
