MONICA SELES' BREATHLESS DEATH MATCH

Tennis legend stricken with incurable respiratory disease

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WOMEN'S '90s tennis legend Monica Seles who defeated fellow great Steffi Graf a bunch of times - is now in a terrifying battle with an incurable, crippling breathing disease.

The nine-time Grand Slam winner, who was nearly assassinated at age 19 when a crazed Graf fan stormed the court and stabbed Monica in the back with a nine-inch knife, is now 52 and battling myasthenia gravis.

The former court queen, who notched her first Grand Slam win - the French Open - when she was just 16 in 1990, was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease in 2022.

The condition condition can cause drooping eyelids, double vision, difficulty swallowing, slurred speech, weakness in the arms and legs and even be life-threatening by attacking breathing.