| Though Seles has every reason to be paranoid, few public
figures are as approachable. She has never mastered the
celebrity's thousand-yard stare; she engages whoever stops
her, grins, thanks the person, asks questions. Despite a
death threat made during
the 1996 Australian Open, despite her stabbing by a
deranged Steffi Graf fan in '93--and the resulting two
years of private turmoil and high security--Seles refuses
to live in a velvet prison. |
