2012 Musings - 11

Tough to beleive that it has been 30 yrs to date since a young girl from West Germany started her career as a professional on the tour. She lost that match 6-0,6-4 to Tracy Austin, a US open champ by then and what Austin said about Graf is forever etched in history as forget 1982 or the US, even to this date there is no other player like Steffi Graf all around the planet. Wonder how Austin of today feels when she reads what she had to say. Won't be surprised if someone asks "Tracy, are you having a Steffi Graf"???

And what can I say except for being mad at myself for not writing this first!
http://www.sportsnewsnow.co.uk/the-greatest-tennis-players-of-all-time-no-1/

Some of the greatest clay court players and Steffi's least favourite surface!!!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1347476-greatest-clay-court-players-in-tennis-history#/articles/1347476-greatest-clay-court-players-in-tennis-history/page/14

And why am I not surprised to hear that Sharapova's dream was to play against Steffi Graf on clay..
http://www.gazzetta.it/Tennis/16-10-2012/sharapova-sogno-grande-mio-figlio-sara-forte-come-me-912929327687.shtml

Steffi's interview in a German magazine:
http://www.ksta.de/koeln/steffi-graf-im-interview--ich-moechte-nichts-aendern-,15187530,20074260.html

And her take on German players:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/sports/2012/09/20/open-court-tennis-steffi-graf.cnn?iref=allsearch

And when you are Graf and agassi, you can woo anyone to invest where you live:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/tennis-duo-graf-and-agassi-woo-aussie-water-park-investors/story-fnay3vxj-1226489101356
Busy month as usual for Steffi, from New York to Cologne to Vegas and October is an important month in the Agassi-Graf household for a no:of reasons.
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Pictures from the recent WTT event in Pittsburg.
http://www.cordonpress.com/pedidos/smash181012/inicio.html

Sometimes tough to make out what Wertheim is saying as clearly it is not depth of the feild that prevented Serena from being in the top 5 consistently but great question though....

Just curious to how much weight is given for consistency in the GOAT debate. We always talk about when such and such a player is at their best, they can beat anybody. But what about how consistent they are in bringing their best game day in and day out? Just read this: Steffi Graf's lowest singles ranking from March 1987 to June 1997 was No. 2!!!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/tennis/news/20121003/bryans-doubles-mailbag/index.html

Would give a '10' to Cristea just for trying. How I miss that slice BH....
http://telly.com/LZ1CT

Graf and Agassi to play in Switzerland next year againts Heinz Gunthardt:
http://www.20min.ch/sport/tennis/story/Agassi-und-Graf--spielen-mit-Guenthardt-in-Zug-26458255

Steffi and McHale: