TENNIS PLAYER

Steffi Graf

1969 - Today

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Stefanie Maria Graf ( GRA(H)F, German: [ˈʃtɛfi ˈɡʁaːf] ; born 14 June 1969) is a German former professional tennis player. She won 22 major singles titles, the second-most in women's singles won since the start of the Open Era in 1968 and the third-most of all-time. In 1988, Graf became the first tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four major singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steffi Graf has received more than 11,149,205 page views. Her biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Steffi Graf is the 14th most popular tennis player (down from 11th in 2019), the 929th most popular biography from Germany (down from 840th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Tennis Player.

Steffi Graf is most famous for being a German tennis player, and the only female player to have won all four Grand Slam tournaments in singles.

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  • 4.73

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Among TENNIS PLAYERS

Among tennis players, Steffi Graf ranks 14 out of 1,569Before her are Fred Perry, Jimmy Connors, Boris Becker, Roger Federer, Martina Navratilova, and Suzanne Lenglen. After her are Arthur Ashe, Ivan Lendl, Rafael Nadal, John McEnroe, Charlotte Cooper, and Andre Agassi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Steffi Graf ranks 17Before her are Catherine Zeta-Jones, Matthew McConaughey, Javier Bardem, Edward Norton, Linus Torvalds, and Dennis Bergkamp. After her are Antonio Conte, Siniša Mihajlović, Chyna, Wes Anderson, Prince Joachim of Denmark, and Felix Baumgartner.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Steffi Graf ranks 929 out of 7,253Before her are Julius Schreck (1898), Theodor Billroth (1829), Emil Maurice (1897), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), Ivan Rebroff (1931), and Ernst Kretschmer (1888). After her are John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647), Harald Quandt (1921), Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), and Sophia of Prussia (1870).

Among TENNIS PLAYERS In Germany

Among tennis players born in Germany, Steffi Graf ranks 2Before her are Boris Becker (1967). After her are John McEnroe (1959), Gottfried von Cramm (1909), Michael Stich (1968), Cilly Aussem (1909), Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling (1908), Alexander Zverev (1997), Angelique Kerber (1988), Oscar Kreuzer (1887), Helga Niessen Masthoff (1941), and Heinrich Schomburgk (1885).