Stefanie Maria Graf (born June 14, 1969, in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany) is a former World No. 1 female tennis player from Germany.
Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles – second among male and female players only to Margaret Court's 24. She is the only player to have won all four Grand Slam singles tournaments (Wimbledon, the US Open, the French Open and the Australian Open) at least four times each. In 1988, Graf became the first and to date only player to achieve the "Golden Slam" by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same year.
Graf was ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 total weeks – the longest of any player, male or female, since the WTA and the Association of Tennis Professionals began issuing rankings. She also holds the record for finishing as the year-end World No. 1 the most times, having done so on eight occasions. She won a total 107 singles titles, which ranks her third on the WTA's all-time list after Martina Navratilova (167 titles) and Chris Evert (154 titles).
A notable feature of Graf's game was her versatility across all playing surfaces. She won six French Open singles titles (second to Evert) and seven Wimbledon singles titles (third behind Navratilova and Helen Wills Moody). She is the only singles player to have achieved a Calendar Year Grand Slam while playing on all three major types of tennis courts (grass courts, clay courts and hard courts), as the Calendar Year Grand Slams won by other players before her occurred when the Australian and US Opens were still played on grass. Graf reached thirteen consecutive Grand Slam singles finals, from the 1987 French Open through to the 1990 French Open, winning nine of them. She played in 36 Grand Slam singles tournaments from the 1987 French Open through the 1996 US Open, reaching the finals 29 times and winning 21 titles. She reached a total of 31 Grand Slam singles finals, third overall behind Evert (34 finals) and Navratilova (32 finals).
Graf is considered by some to be the greatest female player. Billie Jean King said in 1999, "Steffi is definitely the greatest women's tennis player of all time." Martina Navratilova has included Graf on her list of great players. In December 1999, Graf was named the greatest female tennis player of the 20th century by a panel of experts assembled by the Associated Press. Tennis writer Steve Flink, in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century, named her as the best female player of the 20th century.
Graf retired in 1999 while she was ranked World No. 3. She is married to the former World No. 1 men's tennis player Andre Agassi.
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Poslato: 07 Jun 2009, 23:43
od Dzelajza Rouz
Uskoro ćemo na ovu fotku nailaziti i u "Queer varjači", kako je krenulo.
mislim da mi je ovo omiljeni teniski mech svih vremena
Poslato: 09 Jun 2009, 09:57
od Oziris
Svim srcem se pridruzujem fan clubu!!! Jedna je Steffi!
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 14:15
od spliff
Originally posted by Sunce
"Volim samo spliff-a. Na forum dolazim krisom da bih videla sta pise!"
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 15:21
od Marvin
Originally posted by deran
Jel postoji negde neki sajt (da nije tjub) odakle se mogu snimati celi mečevi...
Ako znate za neki torent sajt,molim PP,ako nema ovako "zvanično"...
pa imash tennis torrents, samo za njih moraš da dobiješ invite
(invite jednog dana nije trebao, ja slučajno naišao i registrovao se, i nisam nešto bio oduševljen ponudom mečeva, pa nisam išao neko vreme, i sad sam zabovaio šifru )
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 16:13
od ok_decko
steffi...
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 16:35
od spliff
shta mislite, hotje li ova deca da igraju?
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 16:36
od spliff
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 16:37
od spliff
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 17:13
od Lunja
Originally posted by spliff
shta mislite, hotje li ova deca da igraju?
Nadajmo se da hoce.
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 17:38
od Ulix
Originally posted by spliff
shta mislite, hotje li ova deca da igraju?
Od genetike ne mogu da pobegnu. Ima da igraju i ima da uživaju u tome!
Poslato: 06 Sep 2009, 18:20
od Marvin
Ja se nadam da neće.
Toliki pritisak u životu im ne treba.
Poslato: 07 Sep 2009, 02:32
od ZvezdasBG
U to vreme sam navijao za Moniku. Za ovu sam mislio da ruznije zensko ne postoji na svetu (svaka cast na teniskoj karijeri), sve dok se nije pojavila Zastin, pa Morezmo, pa Kuznjecova...sineee
Poslato: 07 Sep 2009, 02:46
od deran
I ja sam navijao za Moniku,ali isto mislim da i ona pripada redu gorenavedenih teniserki...
Poslato: 07 Sep 2009, 04:41
od Combo
Pripadala je nekad - ŽIVELA ESTETSKA HIRURGIJA!
OT> stvarno je skoro redovno bila direktna konkurencija mojim favoritkinjama, ali mi nijednog trenutka nije bilo teško da priznam da je sjajna&fenomenalna. I to kako joj je karijera odmicala - sve više i više.
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