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- When Steffi Graf picked
- up her first tennis racket,
- she was about 4 years
- old. She had seen her
- parents play, and she
- wanted to be like them. As it turned out, Steffi
- would not be like her parents. Steffi would
- turn out to be the Number 1 tennis player in
- the world.
-
- SteffiΓÇÖs father, who ran a tennis club near
- their house, in Br├╝hl, West Germany,
- coached Steffi. (West Germany and East
- Germany were separate countries at that
- time. They merged to form one Germany in
- 1990.) When Steffi was 12, she won the
- West German 14-and-under and 18-and-
- under competitions. The next year, she
- won the European 12-and-unders.