Steffi Graf - Fact Sheet

Profession: Athlete

Steffi Graf is one of only 3 women (5 people) to win all four Grand Slams in one year. She is also one of only two people to win a non-calander year Grand Slam (last 3 of '93, Australian '94), and the only person to do both on two seperate occasions. She is also the only person to win all four Grand Slams twice in each of two different decades...no other woman even won all four Grand Slams in the '90s. She reached the finals of all four Grand Slams in a year a record 3 times, narrowly missing a second consecutive Grand Slam in '89 with a 6-7, 6-3, 5-7 loss in the French Open finals to Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and just missed a Grand Slam in '93 with a 6-4, 3-6, 2-6 loss to Monica Seles in the Australian Open finals. In both 1995 and '96, Graf won the French Open, Wimbledon, and US Open, and missed the Australian Open due to injury, probably costing her two consecutive Grand Slams! Even Graf's one Grand Slam in '88 is unique in that it was the only Grand Slam won on four different surfaces, and it is also known as the Golden Grand Slam, as she also won the Olympic Gold Medal. 

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Steffi Graf Photo Galleries	# of Pictures
Candid + Glamour	45
Glamour	4