“I saw the ball splitting, so I realized that there was something wrong.” The former tennis star Monica Seles revealed that three years ago MiaStenia Gravis was diagnosed, a neuromuscular autoimmune disease that causes tiredness and weakness.
A disease for which there is no cure, underline several American media that report the interview to the former champion, and is more common in women under the age of 40 and in men over the age of 60. Seles, 51, says he noticed the first symptoms when he played with other people and that he saw two balls arrive towards her instead of one. The winner of nine Slam titles and for a long time n.1 in the world therefore turned to a neurologist having also noticed weakness with arms (“even just drying my hair has become very difficult”) and legs. «I had to reset several times in tennis terms. The first when I arrived in the United States (from Yugoslavia, editor’s note): I didn’t speak the language and left my family.
It was a very difficult period – said Seles – then, of course, to become a great player is also a reset, because fame, money, attention change life and it is difficult for a sixteen year old to face all this. Even after being injured I had to make a total reset. The diagnosis of MiaStenia Gravis is another reset, but as I always say to the guys I follow ‘you must always adapt, the ball rebounds and you have to adapt. That’s what I’m doing now ».