Clearly what happened was not justice. However what would happen if all
victims of crime took Monica Seles's attitude and refused to testify in court on
the grounds that it was too upsetting?

The stabbing of Monica was a great wickedness - but not because she was a
great tennis player, but because she is a human being. It would have been
just as tragic if he had stabbed someone else.

There were many victims of this crime. Monica was the most obvious and
most serious. But the fear of this happening again created new victims -
victims of fear who feel less able to live a normal life in case it should
happen
to them - it put up costs to pay for all the 'security' (which either made
tennis
less affordable, or diverted money from more worthy tennis development
needs).

Lets us not fool ourselves that it could not happen again. I was there at
Wimbledon 2000 when a streaker ran on the court during a break between
games in Anna Kournikova's doubles match. That was a match with a lot of
security guards, including the police sniper team on the roof of a
neighbouring building (what relevance they had is questionable - but it gave
them days out a Wimbledon at the expense of the tournament, where they
could pretend to be providing a service).

And let us not hear moronic calls for more security. The only security
measure that would provide 90% protection would be to ban the public
attending tournaments and keep them secret (a policy that would probaly find
great favour with Britain's LTA, which seems to hate the public going to tennis
tournaments).