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Steffi Graf was born on June 14, 1969 in Manhiem, West Germany. She is a former number one International tennis player. As a child, Steffi was introduced to the game and coached by her father Peter. As a young tennis player, Steffi won numerous juniors tournaments and in 1982, at the age of twelve, she won the European Championships. She then went on to play in her first professional tournament in October of 1982 in Filderstadt, Germany, where she lost.
In the next year, 1983, when she played full time on the professional circuit, she steadily improved, but was only ranked ninety-eighth, however, by the end of the year she had gone to a twenty-second ranking. In 1984, she represented West Germany at the Olympics in Los Angeles in the tennis demonstrations and won the gold medal. By 1985 she was ranked sixth. In 1986, she won her first tournament at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and then several more and ended the year ranked third in the world. After that, she started to turn heads in 1987, starting by playing her way into the finals at Wimbledon, where she lost to Martina Navratilova. She went on to win several tournaments, including the 1987 French Open, and was finally able to overtake Navratilova as the new world number one ranked player. Her playing year in 1988 was considered to be her best season. She started out by winning the Australian Open, Wimbledon, French Open, the Gold Medal at the Olympic Games in Seoul, and lastly the U.S Open, becoming the only player to win all four Grand Slams in the same year. She additionally won the Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympics.
She retired from tennis in 1999. After her retirement, Steffi met and eventually married fellow tennis player Andre Agassi in 2001. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.
Tidbits
- Her hobbies include art, music, and photography
- She played in her first tournament when she was 5 years old
- Her astrological sign is Gemini
- She played in 31 Grand Slam finals through the course of her career
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