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Graf retired at the age of 30 in 1999 while ranked as the world No. 3. Martina Navratilova placed Graf at the top of her list of the greatest players ever. In the year of Graf's retirement, Billie Jean King said, "Steffi [Graf] is definitely the greatest women's tennis player of all time."
Apr 2, 2014 · In her professional tennis career, Steffi Graf spent 377 weeks as the No. 1 female player and won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. She retired from tennis in 1999.
Jul 11, 2022 · In his excellent book The Sports Gene, David Epstein, once a journalist at Sports Illustrated, tells the story of Steffi Graf going to a German sports academy as a young girl. She was put...
Mar 25, 2023 · Steffi Graf's top 10 greatest moments at the US Open. Don't miss a moment of the US Open! Subscribe now: https://bit.ly/2Pdr81i The US Open is the final Grand Slam of the year and takes place...
Jun 11, 2024 · Steffi Graf, German tennis player who dominated women’s tennis in the late 1980s and ’90s, winning 22 Grand Slam singles titles. In 1988 she became the third woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in one calendar year, and she also captured a gold medal at the Olympics in Seoul.
Graf is the only female athlete in the list of Forbes Top-30 Most recognizable and marketable athletes in 1995. Selected for European Heroes in 2004 and 2005 by TIME Magazine. Voted Germans greatest role model by TV14 magazine, 2004. Voted Most admirable German woman by Amica magazine, 2005.
With 22 major singles titles and the only player to win the “Golden Grand Slam,” capturing all four majors and an Olympic Gold Medal in the same year, Steffi Graf laid claim to being anointed one of the greatest women’s players in history.
