SI Vault Edited by Jack McCallum October 25, 1993 The Seles
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The Seles Verdict  The question remains as to how much Monica
Seles hurt her own case by refusing to cooperate with German
authorities in the much-publicized trial that resulted in her
attacker walking away with a two-year suspended sentence last
week. Seles has a strange, Garboesque penchant for secrecy
(witness her appearances in various wigs and disguises after her
mysterious withdrawal from Wimbledon in 1991) and according to
German authorities did not allow her U.S. doctors to release
information about the knife wound inflicted by G�nter Parche, a
39-year-old unemployed lathe operator. The authorities wanted
that information to strengthen the charge against Parche, a
loner whose obsession with seeing Steffi Graf regain the No. 1
ranking apparently prompted the attack.  As it was, Parche went
to trial charged with "causing