Steffi & Monica: The Greatest Rivalry That Never Was

9 - Monica Seles: The Baltic Basher


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In March 1987, tennis fans are introduced to 13-year-old Monica Seles not through match footage, but through a hype machine. Nick Bollettieri brands her “the Baltic Basher,” calls her the best young player he’s ever seen, and frames her family’s ambition as singular: nothing less than No. 1. In this episode we learn the truth about Monica's first few months at the Bollettieri Academy, the price she paid for a tennis education that seemed too good to be true, and the Seles family that rallied not to make Monica No. 1, but to make her happy.

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Steffi & Monica: The Greatest Rivalry That Never WasBy JHughes Productions