NEWPORT, Rhode Island,  (Reuters) – Former world  number one Monica Seles was inducted into the International  Tennis Hall of Fame along with three other players during  ceremonies yesterday.

Seles, now 35, won nine Grand Slam singles titles in the  1990s, including four Australian and three French opens. She was  world number one for 178 weeks non-consecutively and ended 1991  and ‘92 as the top-ranked player.

She remains the French Open’s youngest champion, winning in  1990 aged 16 years and six months.
Seles, who was born in Yugoslavia and became a U.S. citizen  in 1994, captured 53 singles titles and six doubles titles and  won more than $14 million in prize money over 15 years.

Her career was interrupted in 1993 when she was stabbed in  the back by a spectator at a changeover during a match in  Hamburg, Germany, and did not play competitively for 27 months.  She won her final grand slam at the 1996 Australian Open.
Joining Seles in the Hall of Fame were Andres Gimeno, one of  Spain’s most prominent players of the 1960s; Donald Dell, a  former U.S. Davis Cup player; and the late Robert Johnson.

Johnson was founder and director of the American Tennis  Association Junior Development Program who worked for decades  assisting in the development of young African-American players.