| Capital: | € 150 million |
|---|---|
| Age: | 50 |
| Born: | June 14, 1969 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Tennis player |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
Steffi Graf, actually Stefanie Maria Graf, 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 rank with a total of 377 weeks. After his career, he married a former tennis professional Andre Agassi and lived with him and his two children in the US, but was 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 was a qualified tennis instructor. He found high motor skills level in his daughter and began to increase the difficulty of the task for very young Steffi graph. In 1977 Steffi Graf won his first tennis tournament at the age of seven (!). So his father gave up his left and devoted himself to promote his career. And this had to run extraordinary in 1981 with Steffi graph’s first participation. As an eleven-year player, he challenged several adults so they needed several sets to beat Steffi Graf.
In 1982, Steffi Graf consequently won the German Championship for eighteen years old children – when he was thirteen years old. The press has talked about the “miracle of the child” and that should. In October 1982 he was finally registered as a professional player with WTA. The Father replies to criticism against the initial date with the fact that there is no way around it.
Career
However, Steffi graph lost his first game as a professional quite clearly. However, their climb was unstoppable. Already in 1983 he played in French Open, where he had reached the second half. Experts are very impressed with their difficult forehand. At the end of the year he was ranked 98th in the world ranking.
The following year he was among the last 32 players in the Australian Open and Wimbledon. At the Olympics in Los Angeles the same year, but at that time it was only held as a screening competition, he won as the youngest player in all fields. Meanwhile, he has moved to 22th place in the world ranking.
In 1985 he reached 16th round in Paris and Wimbledon. As the 6th player who was ranked 6th in the world ranking, he was one of the top stars at the scene and had won half a million DM in prize money.
In the following months, he was only defeated by the giant who dominated in the industry before he finally made a breakthrough in 1987. This year, he won a total of eleven tournaments and won his first Grand Slam tournament. In addition, he took over the leadership of the world ranking.
The following year must be more successful for Steffi Graff. In 1988 he won the four Grand Slam tournaments and the Tennis Olympic tournament, which was later celebrated in his honor as “Golden Slam”. Something that anyone has never been achieved before and after.
The absolute dominance in world tennis then continued for four years before he became a serious competitor at Monica Sel. Sometimes he must let go of his leadership in the world ranking. From 1993 to 1996 he regained his previous dominance. Between 1993 and 1994 he won four consecutive grand slam tournaments, more. However, for the first time, there are signs of certain clothes because of a longer break in injury.
Coupled with this is his father’s tax scandal, which considers it mentally. After the last rally entitled 1999 at the French Open, he ended his career as an active tennis player at the age of 30 years. During this time he won 7x Wimbledon, 5x The French Open, 5x Open Australia and 4x. In total, he won 107 tournaments.
Career spotlight.
Sports spotlight was an extraordinary year in 1988, where Steffi Graph won the four Grand Slam and Olympic tournaments in Seoul. So he is the only “Golden Slam” winner.
But a long time at the top of the world rank also represented the spotlight in Steffi Graf’s career, which was full of success.
Famous quotes
“Nothing goes beyond the changing moment of the match ball, consciousness has won.”
“The more you think in the match, the slower the movement becomes. Usually the cost of victory.”
Amazing facts
In 1997, his father was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for embezzlement of taxes in connection with the gift money he managed.
His brother Michael Graff is a successful motorsport driver in Formula 3.
His son was born in 2001, his daughter in 2003.
He holds the shortest grand slam final which has ever existed when he won 6-0 and 6-0 on not French 1988 in just 32 minutes.
With an estimated 150 million euros in assets, it is still one of the richest 1,000 Germany (in 2019).
