Steffi Graf at the 1999 French Open ... He allegedly evaded 12.3 million Deutsche Marks in taxes. In January 1997, he was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison, ...

Steffi Graf once opened up about her devastating experience of witnessing her father's struggles in ... standing accused of evading payment of 12.3 million Deutsche Marks of his daughter's earnings.

Emotionally and physically destroyed by the incident, Seles stayed away from the court for nearly three years. She returned in late 1995 and faced Graf in the final of the US Open, where the ...