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1988: Steffi Graf Wins the Golden Slam | TENNIS.com  Jul 30, 2015 ... After winning all four Grand Slam tournaments, Olympic gold was the .... Even the loser had to admit that the guard in women's tennis had changed. ..... Graf on the tour, Graf would miss a lot of tournaments due to knee injury. ..... Also Steve, forgot to mention, 1988 was the year where Steffi ran with German...
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Steffi Graf | The German Way & More  Steffi Graf and husband Andre Agassi on the cover of a German magazine in October ... it earned her the nickname Frulein Vorhand (Miss Forehand)  and great ... Slam (winning the four major tournaments): the 1987 French Open, 1988 ... becoming only the second woman to win a non-calendar-year Grand Slam.
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The Shadow of Steffi Graf: Before Serena, Women's Tennis Had ...  Aug 27, 2015 ... This was as close as Steffi Graf came to losing at a major in 1988: Returning at ... including that 1988 grand slam, when she won all four majors (plus the Olympic ... She was described the way one would a German engine, precise and powerful .... The man she did marry was a tennis player, Andre Agassi.
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Steffi Graf - Wikipedia  Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf is a German former tennis player, who was ranked world No. 1 during her career. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. ... In 1999 Billie Jean King said "Steffi is definitely the greatest women's tennis player of all time". .... Graf's 1988 Grand Slam remains the only one in history completed on three...
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Steffi Graf | German tennis player | Britannica.com  German tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the late 1980s and '90s. ... In 1988 she became the third woman to win all four Grand Slam tournaments (the ... In 2001 she married fellow tennis great Andre Agassi, and the couple was...
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Steffi Graf - Wikipedia  Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf is a German former tennis player, who was ranked world No. ... She and Margaret Court are the only players, male or female, to win 3 grand ... born on 14 June 1969, in Mannheim, Baden-Wrttemberg, West Germany, to ..... She lost a lengthy one-set singles match to Clijsters and also the mixed...
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ESPN Classic - Graf, queen of the lawn - ESPN.com  In 1982, Steffi Graf, a 13-year-old German and the youngest phenom to turn ... solely with her forehand, which Chris Evert called "the best in women's tennis." Later ... When she retired in 1999, she had won 22 majors, second only to Margaret Court's 24. ... She spent a record 377 weeks at No. 1. Soon after retiring she made...
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Steffi Graf | The German Way & More  She would later become the world's number one female tennis player. ... On July 7, 1985, 11 million German TV viewers cheered as the 17-year-old Becker won his ... in 1987, Steffi beat six-straight-Wimbledon title holder Martina Navratilova in a .... at age sixteen, she became the youngest winner in French Open history.
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Stefanie Graf - International Tennis Hall of Fame  With 22 major singles titles and the only player to win the Golden Grand Slam, ... Graf advanced to 13 consecutive major singles finals, winning nine of them. ... Tennis Federation World Champion a record seven times (1987, 1988, 1989, ... to the Wimbledon Ladies Championship final in 1999, the German nicknamed the...
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Martina Navratilova - Wikipedia  Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis ... Navratilova took her last major title in 2006, winning the mixed doubles ... Martina then took the name of her stepfather (adding the feminine suffix .... Navratilova won 9 of the 18 career singles matches with Graf and 5 of the 9...
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Andre Agassi - Wikipedia  Andre Kirk Agassi is an American retired professional tennis player and former World No. ... Agassi was the first male player to win all four Grand Slam tournaments on three ... clay and grass), and the last American male to win the French Open, in 1999 .... Nevertheless, he emerged during the hard-court season, winning the...
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Steffi Graf - Wikipedia  Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf is a German former tennis player, who was ranked world No. 1 ... 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 total weeksthe ... Graf reached thirteen consecutive Grand Slam singles finals, from the 1987 ..... Graf's record 186 consecutive-weeks hold on the World No. 1 ranking.
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Steffi Graf facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  German tennis player ... Slam singles titles (only two shy of the record held by Margaret Court Smith ). ... But then in 1986 she won 24 straight matches, quickly moving up to the ... On the court, Graf compiled Grand Slam title after Grand Slam title. ... Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open, her 20th and 21st Grand Slam titles.
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Martina Hingis - Wikipedia  Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ... She was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time in June 2011. ... In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior title: the girls' singles at the...
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Martina Navratilova - Wikipedia  Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis ... Born, (1956-10-18) October 18, 1956 (age 60) ... She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an all-time ..... Catalina Castao 60 61 at the first round of Wimbledon in 2004, aged 47 years and eight...
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US Open Tennis History - Tennis Theme  In the year of 1887 the US Womens national Singles Championship ... different locations since the inception of the men's singles event in Newport. ... 8th (and last) Grand Slam title, and his 5th US Open Champion title in the US open tennis history. ... 1994  ANDRE AGASSI  Andre Agassi became the very first unseeded...
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List of Grand Slam women's singles champions - Wikipedia  List of Women's singles Grand Slam tournaments tennis champions. Note that some major ... Since then, 45 women have won at least one grand slam. ... 2.4.1 All time; 2.4.2 Open era; 2.4.3 Unique winners by country (Open era) ... Chris Evert has won 18 Major titles, tied for the third most with Martina ...... Steffi Graf, 1995.
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Andre Agassi backs wife Steffi Graf in lawsuit brought by oldest ...  Dec 13, 2008 ... Andre Agassi is forced to choose between wife Steffi Graf or his oldest ... 'The nastiest Las Vegas break-up in years has the city buzzing with ... He retired in 2006 after losing in the third round of the US Open. Having been married before to actress Brooke Shields, everyone was thrilled when his fairytale...
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1999: Andre Agassi's redemption at Roland Garros | TENNIS.com  Oct 15, 2015 ... Andre Agassi and Andrei Medvedev had spent the spring of 1999 smiling slyly ... for the first time in eight years; it was the only Grand Slam he had never won. ... Flying back to New York on the Concorde, Gilbert, with a smile, asked Agassi who had won the women's event at the French Open that weekend.
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Steffi Graf facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  1969-. German tennis player. When she attained the number one ranking with the ... Graf also became one of only five players in the history of the game to win tennis' Grand Slam, ... Steffi Graf was born Stephanie Maria Graf on June 14, 1969 in Mannheim, ... And indeed, it looked that way at first, as Graf lost the first set 7-5.
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1992 - Page 42 - TennisForum.com  Jun 25, 2013 ... Kelesi and Simpson took the Canadian women's doubles 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 from ..... The '88 men's gold medalist, Miloslav Mecir, will not return. Nearly every tennis player involved in the last Olympics came away with positive feelings. ..... Top-seeded Mary Joe Fernandez, unrelated to Gigi, beat her U.S. Olympic...