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Monica Seles’ attacker died at age 68 in a nursing home last year

German news outlet Welt reports that Gunter Parche, the man who stabbed Monica Seles on the tennis court 30 years ago, died last year at the age of 68 in a nursing home.

For the last 14 years of his life, Parche resided in a nursing home located in Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany where he received palliative care in a single room. During his final four weeks, Parche remained in bed until he peacefully passed away one night in August 2022.

Gunter was a die-hard Steffi Graf fan who couldn’t handle the fact that Seles had dethroned his heroine from the No.