| 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 former professional tennis 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 quality tennis instructor. He found a high level of motor skills in his daughter and began to increase the difficulty of assignments for very young Steffi graph. In 1977 Steffi Graf won his first tennis tournament at the age of seven (!). So his father handed over 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-old player, he challenged several adults so they needed several sets to beat Steffi Graff.
In 1982, Steffi graph as a result of winning 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’s it supposed to be. 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 professional. However, their climb is unstoppable. Already in 1983 he played in the French Open, where he had reached the second half. Experts are very impressed with their difficult forehand. At the end of that year he was ranked 98th in the world ranking.
The following year he was among the last 32 players at the Australian Open and Wimbledon. At the Olympics in Los Angeles in 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 moved to 22 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 received half a million DM in prize money.
In the following months, he was only a little 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 achieved before and after.
The dominance of mutual 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 dominance before. Between 1993 and 1994 he won four consecutive grand slam tournaments, more. However, for the first time, there are specific clothes signs because of a longer break in injury.
Added to this is his father’s tax scandal, which considers it seriously 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 and 4x Australian Open and 4x. In total, he won 107 tournaments.
Career highlights
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 the steffi graph career, which was full of success.
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 managed.
His brother Michael Graf was a successful motorsport driver in Formula 3.
His son was born in 2001, his daughter in 2003.
He holds a record for the shortest grand slam final that has ever been there when he won 6-0 and 6-0 in France 1988 opened in just 32 minutes.
With an estimated 150 million euros in assets, still one of the richest 1,000 Germany (in 2019).
