After spending 28 months in limbo as she recovered from the emotional and physical trauma of being stabbed on the tennis court by a deranged German man who felt the No1 ranking should belong to Steffi Graf instead of her, Monica Seles rose like a phoenix from the ashes at the 1995 US Open.
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It’s 20 years to the day that the magnificent first chapter after that despicable attack reached a tearful end.
The then 21-year-old Seles was seemingly invincible on way to the final but in a wildly uneven final-round match that pitted Seles against the very woman on whose behalf she was attacked, Graf prevailed, 7-6 (8-6), 0-6, 6-3, and captured her 18th Grand Slam singles title.
2000: Michael Schumacher won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza to get his F1 title bid back on track. An emotional Schumacher broke down in tears after the race.
2007: Asafa Powell broke the 100m world record by three hundredths of a second after running 9.74 seconds at the Rieti Grand Prix in Italy.
2012: Serena Williams won her 15th grand slam singles title at the US Open.