Steffi graf has never felt pressure like this. Not at Wimbledon, where this year she won again, for the sixth time; nor at the U. S. Open, where a month ago she grittily held off the comeback ofrival Monica Seles. That, after all, is tennis-court pressure. This is real-life pressure: last August, German authorities arrested her father, Peter, on suspicion of helping his daughter evade millions of Deutsche marks in taxes. A month later the family tax adviser was in jail too. Then, two weeks ago, Graf herself was questioned for eight hours in her home state of Baden-Wuerttem-berg, as authorities tried to determine what role, if any, she played in the alleged scheme.
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