Well, I guess it took Khode-Kilsch 23 yrs and a banruptcy declaration to suggest that she lost an 'olympic gold' because of Steffi Graf. Wonder, if she ever realized that she might have won at least a 'bronze' because she played the doubles with Steffi. Guessing, she is going to come out with another statement and say, Steffi played so well in singles and won the gold medal just to prevent her from winning the gold medal. And why did Steffi decide all of a sudden in the SF to lose the match, she could have done that in QF or Finals. And if the ultimate goal of Steffi (and her father) was to prevent the great KK from winning an olympic gold, would have been easy for Steffi to just lose in the first round and concentrate on singles from the get go.
Ridiculous as it sounds, below is the Olympic doubles draw from 1988 and Graf/Khode Kilsch team had a tough time against the Canadian team in the QF and they lost to none other than Novotna-Sukova in the SF who lost a tough final to the Americans. To say that they lost beacuse Steffi didn't play well is downright outrageous as it is saying that Novotna-Sukova weren't capable of winning on their own, a formidable doubles team who won a career GS in women's doubles and also won the Olympic silver medal in doubles in 1992.
As expected, this makes the headlines and gets more coverage than Khode-Kilsch's bankruptcy and if that was what she was aiming to distract from the main news or gain attention to her, she succeeded big time. May be she will have more calls for interviews and TV shows which will help her with her bills (didn't want to be mean but couldn't resist).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_Doubles
And guess, who comes out supporting Steffi, none other than Boris Becker, just check his tweets from a couple of days back on the same issue.
Not sure where to start but this post brings back a lot of childhood memories. Can only say best of luck to this fan's dream of interviewing Steffi, tough luck but who knows what is in store for the future.
http://www.sportskeeda.com/2011/12/12/excerpts-from-the-diary-of-a-tennis-fanboy/
Here is this fan's first post as a blogger and Steffi is the inspiration for his free lance writing just as she is for my blogging.
http://hareshtennis.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=6
Navratilova is in and Steffi out for the Halle event, there were doubts from the beginning about Steffi's participation which turned out to be true.
http://www.tennisworldusa.org/Navratilova-and-Edberg-join-Halle-exhibition-field-articolo2624.html
and Junior Martina (Hingis) in to play Steffi at Taiwan. Just as a remainder, the last time these two played, it was voted as the best match by the viewers. There will be no grunting or shreiking but some great ball striking skills for sure and who knows, there might be some 'crossing over' to the other side as well. A great event for tennis lovers in Taiwan. Hope others can catch it on TV.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aSPT&ID=201112190034
And while Khode Kilsch claims were being spread all over, guess what Steffi was upto!! Mr and Mrs.Agassi enjoyed some great food cooked by a great chef. No wonder, Steffi had no time to respond (and she is never going to respond as she doesn't have to and as I said before: Words do matter unless you are Steffi Graf whose actions speak for themselves).
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2011/dec/19/star-surveillance-andre-agassi-shane-victorino-fan/
