As Steffi Prepares For U.S. Open, Father Is Arrested In Germany

Tennis star Steffi Graf’s father was arrested at his home Wednesday on suspicion of tax evasion.

The arrest of Peter Graf, who is also manager of his 26-year-old daughter, could affect her preparations for the U.S. Open later this month in New York. She also is under investigation by the same prosecutor’s office that ordered her father’s arrest.

Graf left for the United States on Tuesday to prepare for the Open.

The arrest warrant for the 57-year-old Peter Graf was issued earlier in the week, and was carried out when authorities feared he might flee Germany to avoid prosecution, Mannheim prosecutor’s spokesman Peter Wechsung said.