Monica Seles#1993 stabbing

Günter Parche ( born July 4, 1954 in herring, Germany ), a professional turners, committed in 1993 to assassinate the tennis player Monica Seles.

Parche was an ardent admirer of Steffi Graf, who was then leading German tennis player. When Count was defeated in 1990 at the German Open in Berlin in the final of Seles, Parche perceived this as a disaster and toyed with thoughts of suicide. His hatred of time incurred Seles solidified when she replaced Graf in 1991 at the top of the tennis world rankings of women.

On April 30, 1993, he attacked Seles therefore at a tennis tournament in Hamburg in a break with a knife and wounded her in the back. The injury was not physically severe, the psychological consequences made ​​Seles but difficult to create. You could just about two years later to play a tournament and never again reached all their earlier form.

Parche were certified as " hochabnorme personality structure " and decreased ability to control in the trial. Because of these circumstances, he was sentenced to a penalty of two years in prison on probation for aggravated assault.

Many people, among them Seles, felt the punishment as unsatisfactorily low. Seles tried in vain to reach a higher penalty in an appeal hearing and announced that even after her return to professional sport, no longer wanting to play tennis in Germany.

Parche now lives several strokes in a retirement home in the Thuringian Nordhausen.