When this German beat Martina Navratilova in the 1987 French Open, she became its youngest champ to date
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Martina Navratilova - Wikipedia  Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis ... She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an .... in 1987 when she narrowly beat Navratilova in the final of the French Open, 64, .... Their split in 1991 included a much-publicized legal wrangle.
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1987-1999 : Steffi and the clay-courts specialists - Roland-Garros ...  Roland Garros 1999 proved to be a life-changing moment for tennis legends Andre ... 6-4, she then defeated world No.1 Martina Hingis in the final 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. .... 1996 was also the year that Pete Sampras made it to his only French Open semis. .... became the youngest ever winner at Roland Garros at a mere 16 years old.
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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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Martina Navratilova facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Martina Navratilova won 56 Grand Slam tennis championships, including 18 ... Her father killed himself when she was very young, and when her mother ... the 1973 French Open and, though unseeded, she reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros. ... Navratilova's rivalry with Chris Evert became a matter of legend among...
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The last time they met on clay, Martina Navratilova... - UPI Archives  By STEVE KETTLE, UPI Sports Writer | June 5, 1987 ... That was the final of the German Open May 19, 1986 -- a date when Graf can ... If she wins, Graf will become the youngest-ever French Open women's champion -- an honor that currently belongs to Britain's Christine Truman, winner in ... The last player to beat her was .
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What Ever Happened To The First Person To Beat Serena Williams?  Jan 15, 2015 ... Not because she defeated someone who will go down in history as one of the ... The year before at the same age, the girl's older sister Venus had ... where Serena Williams will be going for her 19th Grand Slam title. ... Annie Borus counts victories over Serena Williams, Mary Pierce and Lindsay Davenport...
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Mike Tyson - Boxer - Biography.com  At age 20, Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion of the ... Mike Tyson is a former heavyweight boxing champion who's served jail time .... he beat Patterson's record, becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history. .... On November 9, 1996, Tyson faced Holyfield for the heavyweight title.
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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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Boris Becker - Wikipedia  He was the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion at 17 years, 227 days (a record later broken by Michael Chang in 1989, who won the French Open when he was 17 years, 110 days). Two months after his triumph, Becker became the youngest winner of the Cincinnati Open.
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Martina Navratilova | American tennis player | Britannica.com  Czech-born American tennis player, who dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and the ... (born October 18, 1956, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]) ... The following year she won 86 of 87 matches, the U.S. Open women's ... in the 1970s and '80s were Martina Navratilova, who became a U.S. citizen;...
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Mike Tyson - Boxer - Biography.com  At age 20, Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion of the ... the undisputed heavyweight champion, known for his intimidating boxing ... He lost the title in 1990 and later served three years in prison over rape charges. .... March 7, 1987, adding the World Boxing Association championship to his list of...
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Martina Navratilova - Wikipedia  Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis ... Over five consecutive seasons, she won 428 of 442 singles matches, .... They teamed again in 1976 to win the women's Wimbledon doubles title over ... Navratilova defeated Graf in straight sets in the 1987 Wimbledon and US...
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Martina Navratilova - Wikipedia  Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis ... She won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an ... She stated she has not renounced her U.S. citizenship nor does she plan to do so .... Navratilova won both Wimbledon and the French Open in 1982.
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Martina Hingis - Wikipedia  Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently .... In 1993, 12-year-old Hingis became the youngest player to win a Grand Slam junior ... In 1997, Hingis became the undisputed World No. ... 20th century by winning the Australian Open at age 16 years and 3 months (beating...
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YOUTH IS SERVED A WIMBLEDON TITLE BY BECKER - NYTimes ...  Jul 8, 1985 ... For two weeks he beat a path on the grass courts at the All-England ... And today, the 17-year-old from West Germany wrote a storybook ending when he became the youngest champion in the history of the men's ... Becker's victory also made him the first unseeded player to win the men's singles and the...
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MARTINA : Returning to Homeland, It Hits Her That She Now Is Truly ...  Jul 27, 1986 ... Navratilova never regretted the August night in 1975 that she walked ... Martina Navratilova left this country. So did her sister. So did her cousin. So did her first tennis coach. ... So did 17 Czech hockey players, two of them in the last two weeks. ... Hana Mandlikova, native of Prague, heiress-apparent after...
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Boris Becker - Wikipedia  Boris Becker. Boris Franz Becker (German pronunciation: [bs bk]; born 22 November 1967) is a German former world No. 1 professional tennis player. He is a six-time major singles champion; including, having been the youngest Wimbledon men's champion when he was 17.
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1985 Wimbledon Championships  Men's Singles - Wikipedia  Boris Becker won the final 63, 67, 76, 64 against Curren becoming the first unseeded player and the first German to win the Wimbledon singles title as well as the youngest ever male Grand Slam singles champion at 17 years, 227 days. This record would eventually be broken by Michael Chang at the 1989 French Open.
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Tracy Austin, youngest person ever to win US OPEN at the age of 16 ...  16-year-old Tracy Austin winning the 1979 US Open ..... professional tennis player who won the Men's Singles title at (Seen Here) Wimbledon in 1987.
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Floyd Patterson - Wikipedia  Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935  May 11, 2006) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1972, and twice reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1956 to 1962. At the age of 21, he became the youngest boxer in history to win the title, and was also the first heavyweight ... became the youngest boxer to win a world heavyweight title at the age of 20,...
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Jennifer Capriati facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Jennifer Capriati took the tennis world by storm in 1990 when she became the ... major tournaments and the youngest ever player to be ranked in the top ten. ... parents' divorce, a more mature Capriati returned to the tennis scene in 1996 at ... In 1991 she began to beat the top players on the women's tour, including tennis...