| The record books don't lie, but they don't always tell | | | | handling a racket and winning junior's tournaments |
| the whole story. Statistically, Steffi Graf's string of | | | | since only four years old, she was ranked 124th. That |
| accomplishments while wielding a racket is argument | | | | was in 1983. That was the year she started an uphill |
| enough of her greatness. But to those privileged to | | | | climb to the top of the game and never, ever looked |
| watch her play, to witness one amazing win after | | | | back. It was just four year's later, in 1987, in which she'd |
| another, Steffi remains, without argument, the best | | | | achieve the number one ranking in the sport, a spot |
| tennis player to ever jump a net. Her powerful game, | | | | that she'd keep and defend for many years to come. |
| her string of unprecedented and unparalleled victories | | | | In her seventeen-year career, Steffi Graf piled up an |
| in every major tournament and her long-standing | | | | impressive list of credits. She won titles at Wimbledon, |
| number one ranking during the prime of her career | | | | The US, The Australian and the French Opens and |
| make her a player with no equal. | | | | even picked up a gold medal in the 1988 Olympic |
| When Steffi Graff debuted before the tennis world at | | | | games. She was not some flash-in-the-pan tennis |
| the ripe old age of thirteen, even though she'd been | | | | prodigy. |