Stefanie is a former world’s best ranked female tennis player from Germany. She is considered to be one of the best tennis players of all time. Graf won 22 grand slams single titles, more than any other player has won since the era opened.
In 1988, Graf became the only player, to win the "Golden Slam"- getting all four grand slam single titles and Olympic gold medal in the same year. She was the women’s tennis association’s No. 1 player for a record 377 weeks – the longest of any player, she is the only player who have won all four grand slams single tournaments.
A nice feature of grafs game was that she played across all the playing surfaces, concluding of her winning all 6 French open single titles, and 6 Wimbledon single titles she is the only singles player to have accomplished a real grand slam across all 3 types of tennis courts and the 5 singles grand slams happened when the Australian and U.S opens were played in grass. Graf took 13 consecutive grand slam singles finals. She accomplished 36 grand slam singles tournaments. Reaching the finals 29 times, and on 21 titles
Soon after she retired there were headlines for her off the court for dating Andre Agassi.
Graf got married to Andre Agassi he is a former world no. 1 men’s tennis player. They got marries back in October 2001. 4 days later Graf gave birth to her 6 weeks prematurely, to their son Jaden Gil, named after Andre’s trainer Gil Reyes. Their daughter, Jazz Elle, was born in October 2003.
Graf had a very strong forehand. Soon Graf also developed a very effective backhand, and a good volley. At one point it became so fast they would go 180/h. she’s very athletic so chasing after balls was no big deal, because she was fast and very healthy. Her foot work was unique and well known. Her strong strokes were unbeatable.
Graf was introduced to tennis by her father was a tennis coach. She was three at that time. He taught her how swing a wooden racket in the family’s living room using the couch as the net. She got on to the courts when she was 4. Her first tournament was when she was 5. Later on she started to win tournaments. In 1982 she won the European championships 12s and 18s.
Unfortunately, she got married to Claude Glenn, but she never really said it publicly since she knew he wasn’t really for her life so s...
She used to practice the tennis by hitting the ball against a wall with anything she found. Then, her shy nature was another barrier during her sport career. She either preferred to be alone or be in the company of older people, which stopped her being a part of the team. “She admitted her shy nature to an Australian newspaper” (Encyclopedia, 2004). Further, she faced racial comments and bias behaviour during her career. Tatz & Tatz 2000 (as cited in Sean Gorman, 2010) highlighted the racial comments by a senior Victorian politician during 1980 Wimbeldon tournament when he said, “he hoped she “wouldn’t go walkabout like some old boong”. However, Goolagong raised as a star among these racial comments and mostly remained silent. “She chose to let her work on the court speak for itself and remain mostly silent” (Net Industries, 2015). She emerged as a rising star amongst white
One man, a musician by the name of Buddy Walker, saw Althea play one day and had a revolation. He figured that if Althea was so good at table tennis, then she would excel in regular tennis as well. At the time, no one realized just how beneficial this idea would be for the young Harlem girl, Althea Gibson. Through donations raised to pay for her membership and lessons, Althea became a member of an African American club called the Harlem Cosmopolitian Tennis Club. It was here that she aquired the skills needed to compete in tennis matches at a higher, more competative level.
Billie Jean King is a pro tennis player who wanted the pay in sports to be equal for women. She won many tournaments such as Wimbledon women’s singles, U.S. Open singles and the French Open. “...first woman athlete to win more than $100,000 in a single year” (“Billie Jean King”). Billie Jean King noticed that women were not winning the same amount of men in prize money. Billie Jean King criticized the prize money that the women would recite. “... women were receiving
He was a summer intern at the law business she worked for, and she was assigned as a mentor to him. They eventually fell in love and married in October 1992. She is a very committed mother and considers her family her first priority.
Billie Jean King is known as not only one of the best female tennis players of all time, but also as one of the leading activist in the LGBT community. Billie Jean King was born on November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California. As a child King decided that she wanted to be the best women’s tennis player in the world, and she accomplished her goal in 1967. She went on to win multiple grand slams and went down as one of the best to ever play the game. King was married for 22 years from 1965 to 1987 even though she came out as lesbian in 1981 amid a lawsuit from her former female lover. King was one of the first openly gay athletes and she did not shy away from the public scrutiny that came along with it at the time. She lost all her sponsorships
Cheryl Miller was truly a pioneer in women's basketball. She played her high school days at Riverside Polytechnic High school where she was a four year varsity letter winner and led her team to a 132-4 record. In 1981, she was awarded the Dial Award for the national high school scholar athlete of the year. She is named an All-American 4 times by Parade Magazine. She was the first player, male or female, to accomplish this feat. She averaged 39 points and 15 rebounds all throughout high school. She even owns the record for the highest amount of points scored in a basketball game by any male or female with 105 (Breaking News). Even in her career at the University Of Southern California (USC) she accomplished amazing things. She is sixth all time in NCAA history in career points with 3,018. She is third all-time in rebounding with 1,534 (Breaking News). She also has two NCAA titles as well as two tournament MVP's in both of those years. She holds eight records at USC. She also has three Olympic Gold medals. She is also the first USC player, male or female, to have her number retired. (Breaking News). After a brief stint as a professional basketball player, she went on to take the head coaching job at her Alma Mater. She is now an extremely popular broadcaster for TNT Sports.
While in college, she made history. She set an NCAA pitching record by having 60 consecutive wins over three seasons and winning 109 total games. During this season she also has a total of 1,028 strikeouts as well. While in college she also won the nation's best softball player in 2001 and led her team to a national title win in 2002.
...more free to develop their game plans rather than their outfits before the match, but hopefully their sexuality will not be completely submerged by the game either. In an article entitled, "Absent Anna Has Sexy Impact," it was noted, "Serena Williams has no problems with Kournikova's beauty bringing a tennis boost even if the subject herself cannot take a title....The majority of the credit pretty much goes to the Williams sisters and Kournikova. Those three have really made the biggest difference in the amount of publicity, the amount of popularity in the sport." Hopefully, there will come a time in women's sports when all women will be recognized for their superior athleticism, and the unique sexuality of each individual female athlete will be appreciated for how it transforms, challenges, and redefines the social, political, and intellectual dimensions of sport.
...e stereotype of the less-talented woman athlete, she was at least pleasing to the eye and redeemed the reputation of women’s tennis.
A young African-American boy walks onto some rundown tennis courts at a local park with his father in Richmond, VA. Armed with an old wooden racket and a can of white tennis balls, his father begins to feed him some different shots and tells his son everything he knows about tennis. Being an African-American, this young boy did not have many friends that were as interested in tennis as he was. Since tennis is a predominantly white sport, Arthur Ashe’s desire to play was not encouraged by either race, but instead of giving up on the sport he loved, he continued playing to the dismay of many. Little did Ashe know, however, that his persistence would change the game forever. His efforts opened doors for many of the popular African-American tennis players, such as Serena and Venus Williams, MaliVai Washington, and Bryan Shelton. The class that he brought to the game of tennis and the bravery he showed by changing a sport dominated by whites made Arthur Ashe a legend in his own time.
In 1970 he would overcome a 2 shot deficit after 54 holes and win The Open Championship in a playoff hole against Doug Sanders. The following year Nicklaus would win at the PGA Championship giving him his 9th major victory, tying Ben Hogan for the most major wins of any golfer in the Masters era. Of coarse in 1972 The Golden Bear would win the Masters giving him his 10th, making him have the record for the most Major wins of any golfer in the Masters era. That same year he would go on to win his third U.S. Open and push his Major victories to eleven, this time surpassing Bobby Jones’s career record of 10 Major titles, setting a record for most Major wins of any golfer. 1974
Tennis is a sport that many people love to play. It is not the hardest sport in the world to learn. When playing against someone, it is called a match. Tennis can be played one on one or a doubles match. The main object of the game is to hit the ball over the net, inside of the lines so that the opponent can't get to it. There are two lines about two feet parallel to each other that outline the court. In a singles match, the inner line is the out of bound line, while the outer line is out of bounds in a doubles match. If you want to play, take a look at my two favorite tennis players because they are masters at serving and scoring, a few key aspects of the game.
Tennis and golf have a different history and are played a lot nowadays. Historians believe that tennis originally came from Northern France. In the 12th century people used to play tennis with their palms. Racquets were invented in the 16th century and the first tennis balls were white. The history of golf is unclear, but most people think that it was invented in Scotland during the middle ages. This game only started to become popular in the 19th century in England and the United States.Tennis and golf are the two sports that have become more and more popular with new generations. These two sports have a lot of things in common and are very joyful. However, tennis and golf are played very differently and there are tons of differences that make them unique.
I 'm going to compare tennis to golf to reveal the similarities and differences between the two sports. I think you will be surprised how similar they are. They both depend on the swing of your body; grips of your hands, the strike zone of the ball and both are a mental game. Tennis and golf are also very different in many ways. The types of balls used to play the game, materials used to make the balls and equipment used to hit the balls. Tennis is a team sport and an individual sport. But golf is primarily a single player against the golf course. The exertion level differs by sport. Both sports are challenged by weather and attire. I 'm writing this essay because I had played golf for many years before I switched