Monica Seles played tennis.
The 1996 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Melbourne Park in Melbourne in Victoria in Australia . The Grand Slam tournaments , also called majors , are the four most-important annual tennis events . The list of WTA number 1 ranked players shows the professional women 's tennis players who have been or currently are ranked world No. 1 by the Women 's Tennis Association , along with the dates of first reaching and losing that spot . Monica Seles ( [ ˈsɛləs ] Szeles Mónika , Моника Селеш , Monika Seleš , [ ˈsɛlɛʃ ] , born December 2 , 1973 ) is a former Yugoslav world no. 1 professional tennis player and a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame . Though she enjoyed some success after rejoining the tour in 1995 , including a fourth Australian Open title in 1996 , she was unable to consistently reproduce her best form .