Tennis: Seles starts on way back

MONICA SELES takes her first practice shots in public during a training session with her father, Karolj, in Sevasota, Florida, yesterday, but she is still not setting a definite comeback date.

Seles, who has not played since being stabbed in April, may play at an exhibition tournament organised by Chris Evert, in Boca Raton in October, and at another with Martina Navratilova, in Dublin from 3-5 December, before taking her place in the Australian Open in January. Her agents, IMG, said: 'Monica is scheduled to play in a number of events, but whether she will be able to do so we don't know.'

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