I remember reading an interview with Steffi after the 1996 German Open final where Habsudova stretched Graf to 3 sets (I think she won 7-5 in the third) about how she thought Karina improved so much that year. She definitely did but it's a shame for her that losing so many close matches that year (especially to Arantxa at the FO) stalled her climb up the rankings as she did a small fade after that. I think she was still a top 25-40 player in the years following 1996 for a while but she perhaps could've been even better than that.
I remember reading an interview with Steffi after the 1996 German Open final where Habsudova stretched Graf to 3 sets (I think she won 7-5 in the third) about how she thought Karina improved so much that year. She definitely did but it's a shame for her that losing so many close matches that year (especially to Arantxa at the FO) stalled her climb up the rankings as she did a small fade after that. I think she was still a top 25-40 player in the years following 1996 for a while but she perhaps could've been even better than that.