Steffi Graf career statistics

The career of German former professional tennis player Steffi Graf ran from 1982 until her retirement in 1999. Graf won 107 career singles titles including 22 Grand Slam singles titles. In 1988 she became the first tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam titles as well as the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. Graf was ranked as the world No. 1 in singles for a record 377 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 a record eight times.

Performance timelines

''Only results in WTA Tour main-draw, Olympic Games and Fed Cup are included in win–loss records.''

Singles

Notes:

Only results in WTA Tour 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.

Olympic finals

Singles: 2 (1 gold, 1 silver medal)

Graf also won the 1984 demonstration event at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, but this was for players aged 21 or under, and it was not an official Olympic event.

Result

Year

Event

Surface

Opponent

Score

1st place

1984

Los Angeles Olympics

Hard

Doubles

Graf and Kohde-Kilsch lost in the semifinals to Jana Novotná and Helena Suková 7–5, 6–3. In 1988, there was no bronze medal match, and both beaten semifinalists received bronze medals.

Career finals

Singles (107 titles, 31 runner-ups)

Result

No.

Date

Tournament

Surface

Opponent

Score

Win

13 Apr 1986

Hilton Head Island, US

Clay

Doubles (11 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Result

No.

Date

Tournament

Surface

Partner

Opponents

Score

Loss

May 1985

Berlin, West Germany

Clay

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Career Grand Slam tournament seedings

The tournaments won by Graf are in boldface, and advanced into finals by Graf are in italics.

Year	Australian Open	French Open	Wimbledon	US Open
1983	not seeded	not seeded	did not qualify	did not qualify
1984	16th	not seeded	not seeded	not seeded
1985	did not play	11th	11th	11th
1986	Not Held	3rd	did not play	3rd
1987	did not play	2nd	2nd	1st
1988	1st	1st	1st	1st
1989	1st	1st	1st	1st
1990	1st	1st	1st	1st
1991	1st	2nd	1st	1st
1992	did not play	2nd	2nd	2nd
1993	2nd	1st	1st	1st
1994	1st	1st	1st	1st
1995	did not play	2nd	1st	1st
1996	did not play	1st	1st	1st
1997	1st	2nd	did not play	did not play
1998	did not play	did not play	4th	8th
1999	10th	6th	2nd	did not play

Top 10 wins

Graf has a record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.

Season	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	Total
Wins	2	0	15	28	18	22	18	11	17	23	11	15	13	1	8	6	208

Awards

1986: Most Improved Player, by the Women's Tennis Association
1987 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1987 World Champion, by the International Tennis Federation
1988 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1988 World Champion, by the ITF
1988 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year
1989 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1989 World Champion, by the ITF
1989 Female Athlete of the Year, by the Associated Press
1990 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1990 World Champion, by the ITF
1993 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1993 World Champion, by the ITF
1994 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1995 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1995 World Champion, by the ITF
1996 Player of the Year, by the WTA
1996 World Champion, by the ITF
1996 Most Exciting Player of the Year, by the WTA
1998 Most Exciting Player of the Year, by the WTA
1999 Most Exciting Player of the Year, by the WTA
1999 Prince of Asturias Award, one of the most important awards of Spain and named after the heir apparent of Spain, Prince Felipe
1999 Germany Television Award for her outstanding performance as tennis player and her importance to the German public.
1999 Athlete of the Century for the category Female Athlete in Ballsports by a panel of the International Olympic Committee
1999 The Greatest Female Tennis Player of the 20th century, by a panel of tennis experts assembled by the Associated Press
1999 Female Athlete of the Year, by the German television broadcaster ARD
1999 Female Sports Award of the Last Decade, by ESPY
1999 Olympic Order granted by Dr. Antonio Samaranch, president of the IOC
2002 Medal of Honor, bestowed by the prime minister of Graf's home state Baden-Württemberg, Erwin Teufel
2004 Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame
2008 Cross of the Order of Merit awarded to her by German Federal President Horst Köhler
2009 Wilson award for public service.

Special honours

Graf is the only female athlete in the list of Forbes Top-30 Most recognizable and marketable athletes in 1995.
Selected for European Heroes in 2004 and 2005 by TIME Magazine.
Voted Germans greatest role model by TV14 magazine, 2004.
Voted Most admirable German woman by Amica magazine, 2005.
Voted Germany's Sportswoman of the Century in 1999 by the German press.
Graf is the only person to have won the 'Golden Slam'
Graf is the first German to win the Spain's 'Prince of Asturias' award.
Chosen by World Economic Forum As Young Global Leader for 2008
Godmother of the Navigator of The Seas, 2002
Stefanie Graf was awarded with the Golden Sports Pyramid, the highest distinction of the German Sports Fund in Herzogenaurach by the Adidas chairman Herbert Hainer on 24 June 2008. She was also inducted to the German Sport Hall of Fame.
Voted The best female role model in sports in a survey by Barclays, sponsors of the Premier League, 2010.
Nominated and voted the title Mother of the nation in her country, Germany, 2010.