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Steffi Graf: West Germany
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Steffi Graf has won a court appeal in Cologne against Microsoft Germany over fake nude photos of her that appeared on web pages hosted by the company. However, the decision, if media reports are accurate, gives cause for concern.
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At the start of her first full professional season in 1983, the 13-year-old Graf was ranked No. 124. She won no titles in the next three years, but her game improved consistently and her ranking climbed steadily to No. 98 in 1983, No. 22 in 1984, and No. 6 in 1985. In 1984, she first gained international attention when she almost upset the #10 seed, Jo Durie of the United Kingdom, in a fourth round Centre Court match at Wimbledon. In August, she represented West Germany in the tennis demonstration event at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles and won the event.
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Graf was a member of the German Fed Cup team for 7 years (1986-'87, '89, '91-'93, '96). She has Germany's record of most final wins (3-0), leading Germany to victory in 1987 and 1992. Graf completed her Fed Cup career playing in 20 ties, with an overall win-loss record of 28-4 (20-2 in singles and 8-2 in doubles). Graf was ... a member of the German Olympic team in 1984 (Gold - tennis was a demonstration sport), 1988 (Gold), and 1992 (Silver).
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Stefanie Maria Graf was born June on 14, 1969 in Mannheim, West Germany, and in 1978 the family moved to nearby Bruehl. Her father Peter, a car and insurance salesman, was an aspiring tennis coach who began teaching her to swing a racket in the family's living room. She was on a court at four, in her first tournament at five and taking lessons at six.
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Graf was born in Brühl, West Germany (now part of Germany). Coached by her father, Peter, a soccer star, and encouraged by her tennis-playing mother, Heidi, she was already playing tennis at the age of six. In 1982, at the age of 13, Graf became the second-youngest tennis player ever to be ranked as a professional.
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Stefanie Maria Graf was born in Mannheim in southwestern Germany. She is generally considered one of the greatest female tennis players of all times. Her main arsenal in her game was her powerful forehand wining her nickname „Fräulein Forehand.“ She ... had one of the fastest serves in women’s tennis.
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