{"id":341036,"date":"2025-08-13T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341036\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:38:11","slug":"tennis-live-cincinnati-open-bosses-ripped-into-as-grand-slam-champion-reveals-diagnosis-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/341036\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis LIVE: Cincinnati Open bosses ripped into as Grand Slam champion reveals diagnosis | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Seles has revealed that she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular autoimmune disease, three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>She first noticed symptoms of the muscle-weakening disease while playing tennis around five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would be playing with some kids or family members and I would miss a ball,&#8221; Seles told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was like: &#8216;Yeah, I see two balls&#8217;. These are obviously symptoms that you can&#8217;t ignore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took me quite some time to really absorb it, speak openly about it, because it&#8217;s a difficult one. It affects my day-to-day life quite a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monica Seles has revealed that she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular autoimmune disease, three years ago.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[35772,4719,107663,121467,121464,121466,121465,1070,59190,4718,79,1068,5838,31638,16,15,11911],"class_list":{"0":"post-341036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-atp-tour","10":"tag-cincinnati-open","11":"tag-cincinnati-open-highlights","12":"tag-cincinnati-open-news","13":"tag-cincinnati-open-schedule","14":"tag-cincinnati-open-scores","15":"tag-emma-raducanu","16":"tag-extreme-weather","17":"tag-jannik-sinner","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tennis","20":"tag-tennis-news","21":"tag-tennis-scores","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-wta-tour"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115021263921369997","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}