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Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf is a German previous global No. 1 tennis player.

Steffi Graf gained 22 Grand Slam singles titles. Her twenty-two singles titles label the record for greatest wins by a lawn tennis player (male or female) since the introduction of the Open Era in 1968, and is the only player to succeed at least 4 singles titles at each Grand Slam . In 1988, she turned the 1st and only tennis participant (male or female) to accomplish the Calendar Year Golden Slam by succeeding all 4 Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic golden medal in the same calendar year. Steffi Graf retired in 1999 when she was placed World No. 3.

 Her career prize-money earnings amounted US$21,895,277 (a record till Lindsay Davenport exceeded this amount in January 2008). 

Early life

Stefanie Graf was delivered on fourteen June 1969, in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, western Germany. Graf was entered to lawn tennis by her father, an wishful tennis tutor, who instructed his three-year-old daughter however to swing a woody racket in the house living room. She started practicing on a court at the years of 4 and played in her 1st tournament at 5. She soon started successful junior tourneys with regularity, and in 1982 she gained the European titles twelves and eighteens.

Steffi Graf in Biography:

Country                : Germany

Residence:          Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

Born:                 14 June 1969 (age 45) Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, West Germany

Height:                1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)

Turned pro:        18 October 1982

Retired:               13 August 1999

Plays:                   Right-handed (one-handed backhand)

Coach(es):          Peter Graf

Pavel Složil:       (1986-1991)

Heinz Gunthardt  (1992-1999)

Prize money        $21,895,277

  7th in all-time rankings

Int. Tennis HOF

2004 (member page)

Singles

Career record    902-115 (88.69%)

Career titles       107 (3rd all-time)

Highest ranking No. 1 (17 August 1987)

Grand Slam Singles Career record

 Australian Open Four singles titles

W (1988, 1989, 1990, 1994)

  French Open six singles titles

W (1999,1996,1995,1993,1998,1988,1987)

 Wimbledon Graf won seven singles titles

W (1995,1996,1993,1991,1992,1988,1989)

 US Open five singles titles at

W (1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996)

Other tournaments

Tour Finals

W (1987, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996)

Olympic Games

 Gold medal (1988)

 Silver medal (1992)

Doubles

Career record    173-72 (70.6%)

Career titles       11

Highest ranking No. 3 (3 March 1987)

Grand Slam Doubles results

Australian Open

SF (1988, 1989)

French Open

F (1986, 1987, 1989)

Wimbledon

W (1988)

US Open

SF (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989)

Other Doubles tournaments

Olympic Games

 Bronze medal (1988)

Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results

Australian Open

2R (1991)

French Open

2R (1994)

Wimbledon

SF (1999)

US Open

1R (1984)

Team competitions

Fed Cup

W (1987, 1992)

Hopman Cup

W (1993)

Olympic medal record

Women's Tennis

Competitor for   West Germany

Gold      1988 Seoul

Singles

Bronze  1988 Seoul

Doubles

Competitor for   Germany

Silver     1992 Barcelona

Personal life

She wedded former tennis player Andre Agassi who's global No. 1 men's tennis player in October 2001. The pair have 2 babies:

1.            son Jaden Gil (birthed 26 Oct 2001, six weeks prematurely) and

2.            Girl Jaz Elle (birthed 3 Oct 2003).

The Graf-Agassi family lives in Summerlin, a residential area in the Las Vegas Valley. Steffi Graf mother and her brother, Michael Graf, with his 4 babies as well live there.

In 1991, the Graf young lawn tennis Center in Leipzig was dedicated who have been shocked by war or a different crises.  "Children for Tomorrow", a noncommercial foundation for carrying out and preparing projects to defend babies She is the founder and chairman.