STEFFI GRAF, the US Open tennis champion, may miss a home event in Leipzig starting this month because of the attention surrounding her father's tax evasion trial, the organiser said yesterday.

"She is still top of the entry list. But I have my doubts because the tax trial in Mannheim is likely to cast its shadow as far as Leipzig," tournament director Ivan Radosevic said.

Peter Graf went on trial last week with a family tax adviser charged with evading tax worth 19 million marks (about £7.9 million) on his daughter's earnings between 1989 and 1993.

World number one Graf, who clinched her 21st Grand Slam title three days after her father's trial began, is still under investigation in the affair but has not been charged.