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An exceptionally versatile competitor, Graf remains the only player, male or female, to have won the calendar-year Grand Slam on three surfaces or to have won each Grand Slam at least four times. Eighteen-time Grand Slam champion and former rival Chris Evert opined, "Steffi Graf is the best all-around player. Martina [Navratilova] won more on ...
Notes: Only results in WTA Tour (incl. Grand Slams) main-draw, Olympic Games and Fed Cup are included in win–loss records. Graf retired in August 1999 while ranked world No. 3, She was not included in the official year end ranking.
Steffi Graf : 1994 ♦: Steffi Graf : Arantxa Sánchez Vicario : Conchita Martínez : Arantxa Sánchez Vicario : 1995 Mary Pierce : Steffi Graf : Steffi Graf : Steffi Graf : 1996 Monica Seles : Steffi Graf : Steffi Graf : Steffi Graf : 1997 Martina Hingis : Iva Majoli
Graf was dominant on tour in Seles' first years, then Seles was dominant at the Grand Slams winning three of the four matches they played between the ages of 17 and 19. During the period where Seles first reached the No. 1 spot in 1991, the head-to-head saw Graf leading 3–2, with all of their matches coming in tournament finals.
In 1965, Margaret Court won a record nine titles out of twelve available to a player in the same year: the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam tournaments. [ citation needed ] In 1985, Martina Navratilova reached the final in all Grand Slam events held that year, equaling the record of eleven final appearances set by Court ...
Steffi Graf defeated Gabriela Sabatini 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 . It was Graf's 5th career Grand Slam title and her 1st US Open title. She became the second woman in the Open Era to complete a singles Grand Slam in a calendar year after Margaret Court did so in 1970.
Grand Slam champions Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi share two children. Eliot J. Schechter/Getty Images. On January 22, 2006, former women’s tennis star Steffi Graf and her husband, men’s tennis ...
Combining the Grand Slam and the non-calendar-year Grand Slam, only eight singles players on 11 occasions achieved the feat of being the reigning champion of all four majors, three men (Don Budge, Rod Laver, Novak Djokovic) [147] and five women (Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Serena Williams). [148]