| Capital: | € 150 million |
| Age: | 50 |
| Born: | June 14, 1969 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Tennis player |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Steffi Graf, actually Stefanie Maria Graph, is a German tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam tournaments and, in 1988, gold at the Olympics, “Golden Slam”. It holds a world record for weeks of leadership in the world ranking with a total of 377 weeks. After his career, he married Andre Agassi’s professional and lived with him and his two children in the US, but were still one of the most successful tennis players of all time.
Early life
From his childhood, his father introduced him to play tennis. At the age of three, he began to hit him. His father Peter Graf is a tennis instructor who qualified. He found a high level of motor skills in his daughter and began to improve the difficulty of task for very young Steffi graphs. In 1977 Steffi Graf won his first tennis tournament at the age of seven years (!). So his father handed over his remaining work and devoted himself to the fully promoting his career. And this must be done extraordinary in 1981 with the first participation of Steffi Graf. As an eleven -year -old player, he is very challenging some adults that they need several sets to defeat Steffi Graf.
In 1982, Steffi Graf as a result he won the German championship for children aged eighteen-year-old he was thirteen years old. The press has talked about “the miracle of children” and that’s how it should be. In October 1982 he was finally registered as a professional player with WTA. The father returned criticism over the initial date with the fact that there was no other way around him.
Career highlights
Sports spotlight is an extraordinary year in 1988, where Steffi Graf won the four Grand Slam tournaments and the Olympics in Seoul. So he was the only winner of “Golden Slam”.
But a long time in the top ranking of the world is also the spotlight in Steffi Graf’s career, which is full of success.
Famous quotes
“There is nothing that surpasses the moment of the transformed match ball, the awareness of having prevailed.”
“The more you think in the match, the slower the movements become. It usually costs victory. ”
Amazing facts
In 1997, his father was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax evasion in connection with the prize of money he did.
His brother Michael Graf is a successful Motorsport driver in Formula 3.
His son was born in 2001, his daughter in 2003.
He held a record for the shortest Grand Slam final when he won 6-0 and 6-0 at the 1988 France Open in just 32 minutes.
With an estimated 150 million euros in assets, it is still one of the 1,000 richest Germans (as of 2019).