In 2015, Graf was the recipient of the International Club's Jean Borotra Sportsmanship Award. She survived an intense three-set battle with Helena Sukova in the semis, breaking in the tenth and final game to win the third set 64. [68] On 1 October 1988, in winning the final at the Olympic Games in Seoul, German tennis player Steffi Graf achieved what no one else had done before or has done since. Shortly after the stabbing, during a players meeting at the Italian Open in Rome, 17 of the world's top 25 WTA members voted against preserving Seles' world No. In October, Graf defeated Sabatini in an exhibition match in Mannheim, Germany, winning both of their sets. Seles won the match on her fifth match point; Graf came within two points of winning the match a few games earlier. Then on 11 September in New York, Graf became the first woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year since Australias Margaret Smith-Court in 1970. Graf was trailing Martina Navratilova in the final 75, 20 before winning the match 57, 62, 61. After losing a fifth straight time to Sabatini in Amelia Island, Florida, Graf again defeated Seles in the Hamburg final. 1, Reached the final of every tournament played in a calendar year, Two streaks of 5 years with winning percentage of 90%+, 8 WTA Tier 1/Premier-5/Premier Mandatory clay titles, 89.63% win rate (147-17) in WTA Tier 1/Premier-5/Premier Mandatory events, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 18:23. [133], In 1997, she left the Catholic Church, citing personal reasons. will, Steffi would don her stoical mask and use her cannon of a forehand, the most powerful weapon in the women's game, to overwhelm her opponents. My motivation wasn't what it was in the past. 1 player. Though she did not win any title for the . In total, she won 22 Grand Slam titles: the Australian Open four times, Roland Garros six times, Wimbledon seven times and the US Open five times. Proceeds from her match against Sabatini went to Graf's foundation, "Children for Tomorrow".[102]. 1 ranking. That year Graf lost in the fourth round of the Australian Open in straight sets to Amanda Coetzer. [90][91] She played her last Grand Slam doubles tournament at the 1999 Australian Open with Gorrochategui, losing in the second round. I've always looked up to her and the way she approached the game" : Pete Sampras She is the only singles player (male or female) to have achieved a Grand Slam across three surfaces (grass, clay, and hard courts). Peter Graf also kept a tight rein on Graf's personal life. Her name was Martina Hingis. Whether this scandal affected Graf's form is open to debate. International Olympic Committee. She basically became a backhand slice guru ,,, This became only single taint in Graf's tennis career. [8] Furthermore, she is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won each major tournament at least four times. Sport - Tennis: Novak Djokovic equals Steffi Graf's record for most weeks as world number one: Novak Djokovic equals Steffi Graf's record for most weeks as world. [107] Graf played in the celebrity doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles before straining her left calf muscle and being replaced by Anna Kournikova. In 2010, Graf participated in the WTT Smash Hits exhibition in Washington, D.C. to support the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Argentinas Gabriela Sabatini reached her first ever final, but Graf secured a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory. [154] Her unprecedented Golden Slam saw her receive the 1988 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year. Highly emotional and sensitive, with a . She played Jelena Dokic in Christchurch, New Zealand, Amanda Coetzer in Durban, South Africa, and her former rival Arantxa Snchez Vicario in Zaragoza, Spain. Graf did not lose a set the whole tournament. She retired from tennis in 1999. In August as a 15-year-old (and youngest entrant) representing West Germany, she won the tennis demonstration event at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Instead of being hailed as the undisputed female GOAT, people will always talk about her mysterious backhand deficiency. At Wimbledon, after struggling through early-round three-setters against Mariaan de Swardt and Patty Fendick, she easily defeated Natasha Zvereva in the quarterfinal, Sabatini in the semifinal, and Seles in the final, 62, 61, with Seles playing in almost complete silence because of widespread media and player criticism of her grunting. She lost her first round match 64, 60 to Tracy Austin, a two-time US Open champion and former world No. She won there, comfortably beating Helena Sukov in the final after needing three sets to eliminate Gabriela Sabatini and Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere in the quarterfinals and semifinals respectively. After breaking Novotn's serve, Graf won the next four games to take the match 76, 16, 64. Her father, an aspiring tennis coach, first introduced her to the game, teaching his . [156], Graf was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004 and the German Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.[157][158]. AP Photo/Bruno Mosconi. Stefanie Graf was born on 14 June 1969, in Mannheim, Baden-Wrttemberg, West Germany, to Heidi Schalk and car-and-insurance salesman Peter Graf (18 June 1938 30 November 2013).When she was nine years old, her family moved to the neighboring town of Brhl.She has a younger brother, Michael. The match was notable for its dramatic ending. Graf, however, won the tournament in San Antonio, Texas, and retained her title in Miami, where she once again defeated Evert in the final. Martina Navratilova included Graf at the top of her list of the greatest players ever. . Yet again, she dropped a minimal number of games on the DecoTurf surface at Flushing Meadows and took full advantage of Everts forfeit in the semi-final. Stefanie Maria Steffi" Graf 1969614 GOAT The difficulty of answering questions about the matter came to a head at a Wimbledon press conference, where Graf broke down in tears. to overwhelm her opponents. As usual, the defining shot of the day was the one that earned Steffi her nickname, Frulein Forehand. I was not having fun anymore. Steffi Graf - 22; The former German tennis star is third on the list with 22 grand slam titles victories. Is it possible to have any other year Steffi Graf: yep, it would be like Monica's or Serena's type of dominance. While the Berlin tournament was being played, the largest-circulation German tabloid, Bild, ran a story about an alleged scandal involving Graf's father. 1 for 186 consecutive weeks from 17 August 1987: incredible footwork, a devastating forehand, an effective backhand and a powerful, reliable serve an all-round game that proved successful on every surface. She won her first French Open title since 1988 with a three-set victory over Mary Joe Fernndez in the final. . At Tokyo 2020, current world no. [145] She is the founder and chairperson of "Children for Tomorrow", a non-profit foundation established in 1998 for implementing and developing projects to support children who have been traumatized by war or other crises. Vicario was the no 2 seed while Graf was ranked no 1. A bout of rubella forced Graf to miss the first major event of 1992, the Australian Open. Graf then lost a closely contested final to Monica Seles, 26, 63, 810. Graf said after the final that it would be her last French Open, fueling speculation about her retirement.[84]. She won five consecutive singles majors (1988 Australian Open to 1989 Australian Open), and seven out of eight, in two calendar years (1988 Australian Open to 1989 US Open, except 1989 French Open). [77] [98][99] It was Graf and Snchez Vicario's first head-to-head meeting since 1996. Graf defeated Mary Joe Fernndez in the final of the Australian Open, which was her eighth Grand Slam singles title in the last nine she contested. Only results in WTA Tour (incl. Five months later, the world no. The match was the Wimbledon women's singles semi-final between Ms Graf and Kimiko Date. And the year began as expected, with Graf extending her Grand Slam tournament winning streak to five events at the Australian Open, defeating Helena Sukov in the final. [9] She won 107 singles titles, ranking her third on the WTA's all-time list after Martina Navratilova (167 titles) and Chris Evert (157 titles). In addition to being great as players, they were also great as husband and wife. Graf also won the 1984 demonstration event at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, but this was for players aged 21 or under, and it was not an official Olympic event. 1 was in peerless form on the clay courts of Roland Garros. Her parents are Heidi Schalk and Peter Graf. (Twelve years later, Graf defeated Austin 60, 60 during a second round match at the Evert Cup in Indian Wells, California, which was their second and last match against each other. She always said: I never look back, I look forward, but she also said: You can't measure success if you have never failed. More to Graf's net worth, family, height, net worth, nationality, residence, mansion, stats, retirement, now, news, updates and facts. In her semifinal match at the US Open, Graf defeated Sabatini 36, 64, 62. [75] Graf then had a straight-sets win against Snchez Vicario in the Wimbledon final. First Grand Slam victory of the year for Graf: 6-1, 7-6. Graf, meanwhile, was back to defend her Olympic title on the clay courts of Barcelona 1992, where she took silver after losing to the USAs Jennifer Capriati in the final. As a result, she hit her forehand with exceptional pace and accuracy. Graf vs Williams H2H MATCHES PLAYED All Rounds Final 1/2 1/4 First Second Third Fourth Qualifying q-First q-Second Pre-q Rubber 1 Rubber 2 Rubber 3 Rubber 4 Rubber 5 Robin Bronze N/A In 1988, Graf became the first tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four major singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. 2 (21-06-10) Titles. [104] As part of the event, billed as "Dream Match 2008", she defeated Martina Navratilova in a one-set affair 87, with Graf winning a tiebreaker 105. [25] During that period, she lost six times to Evert and three times to Navratilova, all in straight sets. The teenager had taken part at the Los Angeles Games in 1984 when tennis made its Olympic return as a demonstration sport, 60 years after it was dropped from the programme. Talk Tennis Guru. She lost a lengthy one-set singles match to Clijsters and also the mixed doubles.[106]. 1, 64, 46, 86 after beating Sabatini in a three-set semifinal. Suffering from food poisoning, she had struggled to beat Monica Seles in their semifinal 63, 36, 63 and said that she had menstrual cramps in the final. (W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (WL) winloss record. [58] Graf still managed to win San Diego the following month but aggravated a long-time back injury in beating Snchez Vicario in the final. Retiring from the sport in 1999, Graf's career remains one of the most looked upon in tennis history. During a quarterfinal match between Seles and Magdalena Maleeva in Hamburg, Seles was stabbed between the shoulder blades by a mentally ill German fan of Graf, Gnter Parche. As true as that forehand was, the mask was no less a lie. [61] She took the following nine weeks off, returning only for the Virginia Slims Championships where she lost in straight sets to Pierce in the quarterfinal. [41][42] Graf, however, recovered to defeat Martina Navratilova 62, 67, 61 in the Wimbledon final after defeating Monica Seles 60, 61 in a fourth round match, Arantxa Snchez Vicario in a quarterfinal, and Chris Evert in a semifinal. She would either destroy opponents, clinically and . The pair was moderately successful, winning the 1988 Wimbledon Championships together and reaching the finals of the French Open in 1986, 1987 and 1989. Seles defeated Graf at the Australian Open 46, 63, 62. [11][12][13][14] She won six French Open singles titles (second to Evert), seven Wimbledon singles titles, four Australian Open titles, and five US Open singles titles. Graf's 1988 Grand Slam remains the only one in history completed on three surfaces (grass, clay, hard court), as all other Grand Slams in tennis history were achieved prior to the introduction of hard court at the US Open in 1978.[35]. On 13 April 1986, Graf won her first WTA tournament and beat Evert for the first time in the final of the Family Circle Cup in Hilton Head, South Carolina (she never lost to Evert again, beating her six more times over the next three and a half years). My father taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. United States . 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[150] Flink said in 2020 that the jury was still out on (Serena) Williams as the greatest ever, but Williams' consistency over the long span did not match that of Graf or Navratilova. . 49 . In February 2000, Graf played against Kimiko Date at Nagoya Rainbow Hall in Tokyo, winning in three sets. At the first round of the season-ending Chase Championships, Graf defeated world No. Most sliced shots float these days; Graf's seemed to reach her opponent's side in a straight line, skimming low over the net. 3, having racked up a total of 107 tournament victories. Though she lost the game to opponent Tracy Austin by 6-4, 6-0, this did very little to dishearten the young blood. Graf then won all five of her Fed Cup matches, helping Germany defeat Spain in the final by defeating Arantxa Snchez Vicario, 64, 62. At the Roland-Garros trophy ceremony, after she . She was in hard-court action in the capital of the Republic of Korea on 20 September and breezed through the rounds conceding just one set, against the Soviet Unions Larissa Savchenko in the quarter-final before coming up against Sabatini once again in the gold-medal match on 1 October 1988. As true as that forehand was, the mask was no less a lie. And each time the opponent threw a problem her way, she . No. Graf reached 13 consecutive major singles finals, from the 1987 French Open through to . 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Graf won seven singles titles at Wimbledon, six singles titles at the French Open, five singles titles at the US Open, and four singles titles at the Australian Open. Early life. In 1988, Graf became only the second tennis player in history to win a Slam on hardcourt, clay, and grass all in the same season. She won 7 Wimbledon, 6 French Open, 5 US Open and 4 Australian Open . In 1987, Grafs career truly took off: she won her first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, beating world no. The last few years of Graf's career were beset by injuries, particularly to her knees and back. Even though she lost the opening set, Graf went on to prevail in three sets. ), At the start of her first full professional year in 1983, Graf was 13 years old and ranked world No. It was the longest French Open women's singles final in history, both in terms of time (3 hours and 3 minutes) and number of games played (40). At the end of the year, the municipality of Brhl, her hometown, gave her the title of honorary citizen. In the fall, Graf won the Volkswagen Card Cup in Leipzig a day before her foot operation, losing only two games to Jana Novotn in the final. The shock was who she did it against. [62] Although Graf ended the year ranked No. Steffi Graf vs. Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario ** **Head to Head: **28-8, Graf . [144], In 1991, the Steffi Graf Youth Tennis Center in Leipzig was dedicated to her. thesportslegends. Monica Seles was an opponent in six major finals and the duo spilt at 3-3. [39] In the Boca Raton final, Graf lost the only set she conceded to Chris Evert in their final seven matches.[40]. Novak Djokovic has arrived in Japan for the Tokyo Olympics 2020, and he is looking as confident as ever. At the year-ending Virginia Slims Championships, Graf was upset by Pam Shriver, only her third loss of the year. 1999 Prince of Asturias Award, one of the most important awards of Spain and named after the heir apparent of Spain. Fernandez had two break points to take a 30 and double break lead in the third set. Angelique Kerber recalls memories of Steffi Graf at Wimbledon after becoming first German to win trophy since 1996 . 1 Novak Djokovic could do the same if he wins gold, as could Roger Federer if he is involved in the Games. Steffi Graf vs Serena Williams vs Martina Navratilova - Who is the Greatest Female tennis player of all time? 1 German tennis player. Once was in Syndey early in the year at a small tournament, and again at Indian Wells, 1999. Defending champion Steffi Graf was seeded first again at the French Open and swiftly went about beating her opponents, dropping only 11 games until the semi-finals.. Up against fourth-seeded Argentine Gabriela Sabatini in the last four, Steffi Graf faced her first real test, but overcame it with ease, winning 6-3, 7-6 to go through to the final. At Wimbledon, Graf defeated Jana Novotn to win her third consecutive, and fifth overall, ladies' title. She claimed a prestigious and symbolic victory in the final against Yugoslavias Sabrina Gole on the courts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), winning 6-1, 3-6, 6-4. Graf lost to Conchita Martnez in her comeback tournament a month later in Philadelphia. Voted The best female role model in sports in a survey by Barclays, sponsors of the Premier League, 2010. Graf won a majority of her slams using her sharp slice backhand and her incredible forehand. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 total weeks. [138][139][140] They have two children, a son born in 2001 and a daughter born in 2003. Serena was 17. Graf again missed the Australian Open after undergoing surgery in December 1995 to remove bone splinters from her left foot. [32] That was the shortest-ever and most one-sided Grand Slam final ever and the only double bagel in a Major final since 1911. Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf (German pronunciation: [tf gaf]; born 14 Juin 1969) is a umwhile Warld No. [131][132] In 2015, she was appointed as the brand ambassador of Kerala tourism, for promoting Ayurveda in North America and Europe. Graf's father had approached Gnthardt during the 1991 Virginia Slims Championships. I have complied some stats . [92][93], Graf also occasionally played mixed doubles, although she never won a title. "Peter Graf" redirects here. At the US Open, Graf beat Sabatini in a three-set final to win the Grand Slam by 63, 36, 61, a feat previously performed by only two other women, Maureen Connolly Brinker in 1953 and Margaret Court in 1970. Titles. Graf remains one of the greatest champions in the history of her sport. 1999 Athlete of the Century for the category Female Athlete in Ballsports by a panel of the, 1999 The Greatest Female Tennis Player of the 20th century, by a panel of tennis experts assembled by the Associated Press, 1999 Female Athlete of the Year, by the German television broadcaster ARD, 1999 Female Sports Award of the Last Decade, by, 1999 Olympic Order granted by Dr. Antonio Samaranch, president of the IOC, 2002 Medal of Honor, bestowed by the prime minister of Graf's home state, 2008 Cross of the Order of Merit awarded to her by German Federal President Horst Khler. SAN DIEGO The shock was not that top-ranked Steffi Graf won another match, 6-0, 6-0. American star Chris Evert, meanwhile, failed to take a set off Graf in three matches. Graf then won the tournament in Berlin, losing only twelve games in five matches. Having won the first three Majors of the year, Djokovic is three-fifths of the way to a . Before Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi became the power tennis couple off court, the two were connected by a remarkable weekend 20 years ago at Roland Garros. Since then, four players managed a 271 winloss record, meaning all of them failed to win the Grand Slam: Graf in 1989 and 1993, Martina Hingis in 1997, Roger Federer in 2006 and Novak Djokovic in both 2015 and 2021. Working with her father and then-coach Pavel Sloil, Graf typically practiced for up to four hours a day, often heading straight from airports to practice courts. At the beginning of 1999 Graf played the warm up event to the Australian Open in Sydney; she defeated Serena Williams in the second round and Venus in the quarterfinals before losing to Lindsay Davenport in the semifinal. Graf began 1993 with four losses in her first six tournaments of the year: two to Snchez Vicario and one each to Seles and the 36-year-old Martina Navratilova. Associations of International Sport Federations, Organising Committees for the Olympic Games. When she was nine years old, her family moved to the neighboring town of Brhl. [74] Graf had led 41 in the second set tiebreak, only to lose six points in a row and force a decider. She lost twice to Sabatini in the early spring at the Lipton International and the Bausch & Lomb Championships, which now brought her to seven losses in her last eight matches against Sabatini; however, the Bausch & Lomb loss would be Graf's final loss to Sabatini, winning her next, and last eight matches against Sabatini.[49]. I had one day to turn around, get home, change and get on the flight to Seoul. Began playing Tennis: 1973 Turned Professional: 18.10.1982. It was important for me to win here, she said afterwards. 1999 Germany Television Award for her outstanding performance as tennis player and her importance to the German public. (W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (WL) winloss record. The American then took her opponent to a tie-break in the second set, eventually going down 7-3. Graf, Kerber's idol . A mixture of injury problems, personal difficulties, and loss of form made 1991 a tough year for Graf. [45] In Berlin, she extended her unbeaten streak to 66 matches (second in WTA history to Navratilova's 74) before losing the final to Monica Seles, 46, 36. Steffi Graf went on to win Wimbledon in 1996, beating Arantxa . At Wimbledon, Graf lost in the semifinals to Zina Garrison, who with this victory broke Graf's string of 13 consecutive major finals. She has appeared in many advertisements and television commercials with Andre Agassi including Canon Inc.[130] and Longines in 2008 (Agassi became Longines ambassador in 2007). She did not drop a set en route to the final, defeating Czechoslovakias Hana Mandlkov in the quarter-final and compatriot Claudia Kohde-Kilsch in the semi-final. Wimbledon authorities then threatened to immediately shut down any subsequent press conferences where questions about the issue were asked. Graf then went on to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open before losing to Monica Seles in two sets. She started the year strongly, with six tournament victories heading into the French Open, with the highlight being at the tournament in Miami, where she defeated Martina Navratilova in a semifinal and Chris Evert in the final and lost only 20 games in the seven rounds of the tournament. Going back in time, one can recall the right-handed player who fearlessly outplayed her opponents. Graf retired in August 1999 while ranked world No. [88] Sabatini said of the partnership: "doubles is all about communicating with each other, and we didn't communicate that much. She struggled at the German Open in Berlin where she lost a 60 set to the unheralded Sabine Hack before defeating Mary Joe Fernndez and Sabatini in three-set matches to claim her seventh title there in eight years. [36] Graf also won her only Grand Slam doubles title that yearat Wimbledon partnering Sabatiniand picked up a women's doubles Olympic bronze medal. Martina revolutionized women's tennis with her hardcore workout regimen to become more fit and stronger than her opponents. In 1986, she formed a partnership with rival Gabriela Sabatini. In the 1980s and '90s Graf was ranked the top woman player by the Women's Tennis Association . [21] Her father, an aspiring tennis coach, first introduced her to the game, teaching his three-year-old daughter how to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room. In the middle of the second set, Graf suffered back spasms while reaching for a ball in the ad court. It was Graf's second consecutive loss to Novotna, and dating back to their 1991 Australian Open quarterfinal match, Jana had won three of their last five meetings. Graf played a singles exhibition match against Kim Clijsters and a mixed doubles exhibition alongside husband Andre Agassi against Tim Henman and Clijsters as part of a test event and celebration for the newly installed roof over Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2009. . At the US Open, Graf was upset in the quarterfinals by Snchez Vicario 76, 63. One was 19 and one is pushing 34. Though she lost the game to opponent Tracy Austin by 6-4, 6-0, this did very little to dishearten the young blood. [122] Graf's racquets were strung at 29 kilograms (64 pounds), significantly above the 50-60 pound range recommended by Wilson. [50][51], During Seles's absence, Graf won 65 of 67 matches,[52] three of four Grand Slam events and the year-end Virginia Slims championships. More than two years elapsed before Seles competed again. The German, born on 14 June 1969 in Mannheim, was already showing the qualities that would lead to her being world no. The weeks following Wimbledon [in 1999] weren't easy for me. In 1984, she first gained international attention when she almost upset the tenth seed, Jo Durie of the United Kingdom, in a fourth round Centre Court match at Wimbledon.

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