Monica Seles has revealed that she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular autoimmune disease, three years ago.<\/p>\n
The nine-time Grand Slam champion has opted to go public ahead of the US Open in a bid to raise awareness of the condition.<\/p>\n
She first noticed symptoms of the muscle-weakening disease while playing tennis around five years ago.<\/p>\n
“I would be playing with some kids or family members and I would miss a ball,” Seles told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
“I was like: ‘Yeah, I see two balls’. These are obviously symptoms that you can’t ignore.<\/p>\n
“It took me quite some time to really absorb it, speak openly about it, because it’s a difficult one. It affects my day-to-day life quite a lot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monica Seles has revealed that she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular autoimmune disease, three years ago.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6005,22932,49,48,26217,42241,42238,42240,42239,3270,6094,615,82,593,621,42242,20436],"class_list":["post-66348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-atp-tour","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-cincinnati-open-highlights","tag-cincinnati-open-news","tag-cincinnati-open-schedule","tag-cincinnati-open-scores","tag-emma-raducanu","tag-extreme-weather","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-scores","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}