This backstabbing has had a clear political background. In 1993 Germany was hard at work in the breakup of Seles country, Yugoslavia. A player from a country demonized in the press could not have been allowed to dominate the elite sport of tennis. Seles never recovered. Graff regained No 1 in ratings but it must have had a sour taste for her. The attempted murder was treated as an act of a person with "disturbed mind". The criminal was "sentenced" to two years of probation. Hitler may have been defeated in 1945 but the Hitlerites and his spirit seem to reign supreme in some quarters of the world.