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- When Steffi was 4 years old, she
- dragged around her fatherΓÇÖs tennis
- racket, begging him to let her play. He
- took an old racket and cut down the
- handle to make it short enough for her.
- Then he tied a string between two
- chairs in the living room and taught her
- to hit the ball over the string. Soon they
- moved into the basement, where the
- couch doubled as a net. Her dad made
- a deal with her. If she hit the ball 10
- times without missing, sheΓÇÖd get a
- soda; 25 times and she'd get an ice
- cream party. But sometimes he had to
- make her miss, or she would have had
- too many ice cream parties!