Jonathan Scott remembers the day that changed the course of women's tennis history, when a deranged Steffi Graf fan set out to stop the woman who had supplanted his idol as the world's number one tennis player -- and succeeded, by sticking a knife in her back during a changeover in Hamburg. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was sitting in my friend Ken's apartment on Q Street in Dupont Circle when the news came on the radio. It was horrifying. When Seles finally returned two and a half years later -- winning her first tournament back, then capturing her ninth Grand Slam in Melbourne -- it seemed like there might be as happy an ending as one could possibly hope for. But Seles was never the same, suffering from anxiety, depression, eating disorders and a other health issues, and she never won another major ... when it seemed she might win more than anyone ever had. Read HERE.
BTW: Her attacker, Gunter Parche, merely got a slap on the wrist by the German courts.
4 comments:
Fry & Laurie rule! - in my head i'm singing for Pete.
Is Hugh wearing a Kenneth flip?
I think it was almost as amazing that Steffi was able to escape any noticeable trauma.
She won the 1996 Australian Open. That was her final Grand Slam title.
@Anonymous: Did anyone say different?
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