NEWPORT, R.I. — Monica Seles was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, honored for a career in which she won nine Grand Slam singles titles and returned to the tour after being stabbed while playing a match.

Seles and the other members of the 2009 class announced Thursday will be inducted July 11.

Also elected were 1972 French Open champion Andres Gimeno, Association for Tennis Professionals co-founder Donald Dell, and the late Robert Johnson, who pioneered the integration of tennis.

Known for her two-tone grunts and two-handed swings off both wings, Seles won 53 singles titles, including four at the Australian Open, three at the French Open and two at the U.S. Open.

When she first rose to No. 1 in 1991, she was 17, at the time the youngest woman to have topped the rankings. By the time she was 19, Seles already had won eight major championships.

But in April 1993, at the height of her success, she was attacked by a man who climbed out of the stands at a tournament in Hamburg, Germany.

Seles returned to the game 27 months later and immediately reached the 1995 U.S. Open final. Her final Grand Slam title then came at the 1996 Australian Open; she would go on to reach two more major finals.

Hampered by a left foot injury, she played her last match at the 2003 French Open at age 29. Thinking she might try to come back at some point, Seles waited until last year to officially announce her retirement.

Born in what was then Yugoslavia, Seles moved to the United States when she was 13 to work at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy. She became a U.S. citizen in 1994 and helped the United States win three Fed Cup titles.

Seles also won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000, and at the age of 16 became the youngest French Open champion in history.

Gimeno, elected in the Masters Player category, still holds the record for being the oldest French Open champion: The Spaniard was two months shy of 35 when he won at Roland Garros.

He also was the runner-up to Rod Laver at the Australian Open in 1969 — Laver would go on to win all four Grand Slam titles that year — and reached a career-best ranking of No. 9.

Dell and Johnson were both chosen in the Contributor category.

As a player, Dell was on the U.S. Davis Cup team in the early 1960s. As a nonplaying captain, he led the country to Davis Cup championships in 1968 and 1969.

His biggest impact on tennis, though, came in marketing and business: He was the first person to manage tennis players' careers, served as the ATP's first general counsel for eight years and is a founder of Washington's Legg Mason Tennis Classic.

Johnson, who lived from 1899-1971, is credited with helping launch the careers of Grand Slam title winners Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson.

"It was Johnson's vision and innovative groundwork that gave Gibson and Ashe — and all future black champions — the training ground and road map to succeed," the Hall said in its announcement of the inductees.