5 youngest women's Grand Slam champions in the Open Era

2. Monica Seles (16 years, 189 days)

Monica Seles became a Grand Slam champion at 16 when she beat Steffi Graf to win the 1990 French Open. Regarded as one of the most talented youngsters in the world, Seles dominated the women's circuit for quite some time after that win.

She won eight Grand Slam titles before turning 20 years old, a feat that will always be very difficult to surpass. Seles won three Grand Slam titles in 1991, a year in which she also achieved the World No. 1 ranking.

She made the finals of all four Grand Slams the following year, winning three of them. Seles won nine Grand Slam titles in her career, including four Australian Open, three French Open, and two US Open titles.

She was the victim of an on-court knife attack in 1993 when she was at the peak of her game. Seles put the horrific incident behind her as she returned to the game in 1995 and won another Grand Slam title at the 1996 Australian Open, before winning a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 2000.

A true champion in every sense of the word, Seles was later inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Monica Seles