Graf Agrees To Pay Back Taxes

Prosecutors are preparing to drop an ongoing tax-evasion investigation against tennis great Steffi Graf, a German magazine reported.

The Hamburg-based Der Spiegel news weekly said the investigation would be closed soon because Graf had agreed to pay $2 million in taxes. But the report said that will have no effect on the status of her father, Peter, who is to go on trial Sept. 5.

Peter Graf, who managed his daughter’s finances for years, is charged with evading up to $13.3 million in taxes on $28 million of his daughter’s earnings between 1987 and 1993.

Amy Frazier rarely leaves the baseline, and with good reason. The hard baseline shots that have become Frazier’s trademark helped her defeat second-seeded Magdalena Maleeva, 6-4, 6-3, in the final of the A&P Tennis Classic in Mahwah, N.J.

Defending champion Thomas Muster applied relentless pressure from the start, never letting Yevgeny Kafelnikov get untracked during a straight-sets victory in the title match of the Mercedes Cup at Stuttgart, Germany.

Muster took just 1 hour, 40 minutes to post a 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 win.