Steffi Graf Video (VCDs/DVDs) Links

Steffi Graf Videos to BUY:

• John Pooley's Steffi Graf Video & DVD Collection
  He has more than 500 Steffi Graf videos on and off the court from 1984-2005.
  
• Rick's Steffi Graf Videos
  You can find some different versions of Steffi videos from above.
  
• Dave's Steffi Graf DVDs
  
• Slawek's Steffi Graf Videos
  375 videos of Steffi from 1984-2010.

Steffi Graf Videos to watch Free on YouTube:

• Geeva's channel on YouTube (geeva1979)
• Candy's channel on Youtube (TrueGreatSteffiGraf)
• Jessyka's channel on YouTube (TheForehand)
• Yevgeny's channel on YouTube (yevshif)
• LDVTennis' channel on YouTube(LDVTennis)

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Steffi Graf ranking information (World No.1 ranking history only)

Steffi  held the number 1 ranking at the following times for a total of 377 weeks,a record for men or women:

• 17 August 1987 - 10 March 1991 - (186 consecutive weeks - a record for any male or female player)
• 5 - 11 August 1991
• 19 August 1991 - 8 September 1991
• 7 June 1993 - 5 February 1995
• 20 - 26 February 1995
• 10 April 1995 - 14 May 1995
• 12 June 1995 - 14 August 1995
• 15 August 1995 - 3 November 1996 - co-ranked at number 1 with Monica Seles
• 4 November 1996 - 17 November 1996 - ranked alone at number 1
• 18 November 1996 - 24 November 1996 - co-ranked at number 1 with Monica Seles
• 25 November 1996 - 30 March 1997 - ranked alone at number 1

Steffi Graf placed Top-100 Greatest Germans

The list was created from a German TV programme Unsere Besten ("Our Best") shown on German public television (ZDF) in November 2003, similar to the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons. The idea was to create a list of greatest Germans - excluding controversial figures such as Adolf Hitler.

Steffi Graf placed at 32nd place of Top-100 greatest Germans.

For the complete list: click here

Former German President, Richard von Weizsäcker is also a great fan of Steffi Graf

"Der Spiegel"
Yearly Chronicle 1999 -- The Look Back
"She was a solace"

Former President RICHARD VON WEIZSÄCKER on his tennis idol, Steffi Graf

SPIEGEL: Mr. von Weizsäcker, what fascinated you about Stefanie Graf?

WEIZSÄCKER: First of all, that she aroused my enthusiasm for women's tennis.
At the right moment, too, since pure boredom prevailed on the men's side. I
saw her for the first time in 1985, then regularly at the tournament in
Berlin at the Red-White club. At the beginning, she lost in the final
against Chris Evert. In addition, I can't deny that I simply enjoyed her
essence.

SPIEGEL: Did you get on personally closer terms?

WEIZSÄCKER: We were always very friendly with each other. But there remained
a certain distance. After every tournament in Berlin, I shook her hand and
congratulated her. The first hugs and farewell kisses only happened when
Steffi was older. Once, I actually played against her. Table tennis on the
top floor of my official residence at Villa Hammerschmidt.

SPIEGEL: Who won?

WEIZSÄCKER: I did, but of course it was only all in good fun.

SPIEGEL: On Center Court, she was seldom in a joking mood. What made Steffi
a champion?

WEIZSÄCKER: On one hand, her fascinating mobility. Steffi was much swifter
and more agile than all the other female players that I ever saw. She danced
the whole time. In Steffi's game, there were long, beautiful-to-watch
rallies in which everything necessary to win the point was eventually done.
That was unbelievably dramatic.

SPIEGEL: But she was also famous for her will to win.

WEIZSÄCKER: For me, Steffi is the epitome of a completely focused person --
the counter-image to the superficiality and distractedness of our time. In
general, her manner, her psychological first impression, was a solace. She
was always of an impressive earnestness, reserved, modest, and seldom
commented on her own game and its analysis.

SPIEGEL: Did you regret that?

WEIZSÄCKER: No, I found it rather gratifying that she didn't recite those
rehearsed, polite phrases like many other players like to do. Steffi
said --always very self-critically-- whether she was happy with herself or
not. And that's that.

SPIEGEL: Boris was more talkative. What differentiated the two besides that?

WEIZSÄCKER: Boris is an outstanding person who represents the views and
challenges of his generation. Steffi is it in her own way: She had the
talent, as a gift that Nature gave to her, to do something impressive and
magnificent.

SPIEGEL: Critics often lamented Steffi's lack of charisma.

WEIZSÄCKER: They do an injustice to her. Steffi certainly wasn't only
interested in some image. She seemed to turn lost matches around via her
indestructible skill. Certainly, such almost hopeless situations aren't just
to be found in tennis, but also in real life. And precisely that impresses
the people. They realize how weak they themselves are and how easily they
let themselves be turned aside -- but not Steffi.

SPIEGEL: Strength and discipline as German virtues are definitely rather
feared. Wasn't the admiration for Steffi a little ambivalent?

WEIZSÄCKER: No, certainly not. It was a genuine feeling of sympathy,
admiration for her gigantic successes. But she was never determined in a
forbidding way. Which certainly isn't at all easy: On one hand, being so
focused on herself, and on the other hand, not seeming to be repulsively
determined.

SPIEGEL: Especially when the media monitor every step.

WEIZSÄCKER: Yes, my goodness, during a hotly contested match, a normal
person sometimes feels the need to throw his racquet around or to strangle
the lines judge. Steffi was always extremely fair. And it was again very
characteristic, how she said good-bye -- really extraordinarily relaxed and
actually joyful.

SPIEGEL: Would you have thought that she is enjoying her retirement with a
flashy showman like Andre Agassi?

WEIZSÄCKER: I wouldn't like to talk about questions of love. But maybe I can
amuse you with an anecdote from my days in the presidency. During a State
visit to Washington, our ambassador, who knew of my love for tennis, asked
me if I felt like watching a tournament. A young man, maybe 17 or 18 years
old, won the final and the friendly club chairman beckoned the winner over:
"This is the German President." He had barely finished saying that when the
player took an enormous picture of himself out of his bag ....

SPIEGEL: The rascal actually wanted to give you an autograph?

WEIZSÄCKER: Exactly that. With extremely sincere willingness, he wanted to
honor the totally unknown visitor from the other side of the Atlantic with a
picture and sweepingly wrote his name on it -- Andre Agassi.

CNN/SI 's Century's Best women's tennis player

CNN/SI asked for find out who is 20th Century's best tennis player in 1999.The result as follows,

1. Steffi Graf  (46%)
2. Martina Navratilova (36%)
3. Chris Evert (8%)
4. Billie Jean King (4%)
5. Margaret Court (2%)
6. Monica Seles (2%)
7. Helen Wills Moody (1%)
8. M.Connoly (1%)

Top-5 Sports Role models

Note:  The article is taken from Barclays Media website.

Research reveals sportsmanship is key

Global research released today reveals that winning is not the most important thing when it comes to playing sport.

Sportsmanship (66%), health and fitness benefits (57%), teaching discipline and abiding by rules (60%) are all considered more significant benefits of playing sport than actually winning (22%), in a poll of more than 1,400 worldwide sports fans by Barclays Spaces for Sports, the programme that uses sport to revitalise disadvantaged communities and tackle key social issues around the world.

In the week of the Australian Open, tennis is recognised as producing the most positive global sporting role models. Current world number one Roger Federer has been voted the top male sports role model taking 18% of votes from a shortlist of 15. Interestingly, tennis also produces the top female role model, with Steffi Graf (20%) top.

The top 10 moments of sportsmanship across global professional sports over the last 50 years emerged from a shortlist of 15. Formula One produced the favourite moment, which was when Graham Hill stopped during the 1965 Belgian Grand Prix to get Jackie Stewart out of his crashed car.

The vast majority (81%) of fans see sport as ‘very important to society’, although there is still a consensus that there are not enough communal places to play sport. Less than a fifth (18%) of respondents felt sport was ‘very accessible in their local area’. Both responses underline the need for more local facilities that are easily accessible, which has been addressed by Barclays Spaces for Sports since its launch in 2004.

Barclays Spaces for Sports is a community sport programme which has created 200 sustainable sports sites across the UK in partnership with the Football Foundation, as well as sites and projects in South Africa, Zambia, the United States and Spain. More will follow in other territories around the world where Barclays operates, including China. The programme aims to revitalise disadvantaged communities and tackle key social issues in those areas.

Ex-Chelsea and Holland footballer Ruud Gullit comments: “The professional side is just a small part of what makes sport so important right across the world. Health and fitness benefits, social skills, how to be a good person, sport can provide all these things to people in all walks of life. Programmes like Barclays Spaces for Sports show how, for communities worldwide, taking part is far more important than winning.”

Alistair Smith, Barclays, comments: “An overwhelming majority (89%) of global fans feel sports stars are in a powerful position to be positive role models, underlining the influence sport has in so many communities across the world. This is at the heart of Barclays Spaces for Sports and we believe that playing sport is also an important tool for learning key life skills and breaking down barriers between different groups, something we’re seeing from our sites and projects around the world.”

RESULTS (top 15 for each are available upon request):

Top Five Women

1. Steffi Graf (tennis) 20%
2. Nadia Comaneci (gymnastics) 12%
3. Martina Navratilova (tennis) 9%
4. Venus Williams (tennis) 9%
5. Dame Kelly Holmes (athletics) 9%

Top Five Men

1. Roger Federer (tennis) 18%
2. Michael Jordan (basketball) 13%
3. Lance Armstrong (cycling) 12%
4. Sachin Tendulkar (cricket) 11%
5. Yao Ming (basketball) 9%

Top Five Sporting Moments

1. Graham Hill stopped during the 1965 Belgian Grand Prix to get Jackie Stewart out of his crashed car

2. In the 1976 German Grand Prix, Niki Lauda was badly burnt in a crash but saved by the actions of fellow drivers

3. Pele and Bobby Moore swapped shirts at the end of the 1970 World Cup match in a manner which demonstrated their respect for each other

4. In December 2000, playing against Everton, West Ham player Paulo Di Canio shunned a goal-scoring opportunity and instead caught the ball when the goalkeeper was lying injured

5. England's five-minute standing ovation in appreciation for playing Ireland at Landsdown Road in the 1973 Five Nations Championship during the troubles in Northern Ireland, after Scotland and Wales had refused to play there.

More than 1,400 sports fans were questioned across seven territories in January 2010.
Source: Barclays

Greatest of All Time tennis players by Paul Fein

Tennis writer Paul Fein top 10 ever.2003.It was published in Aus tennis magazine in 2003
A very thorough analysis(Paul Fein)

The author's top-10 All Time Greats:

Gentlemen 1 Sampras 2 Tilden 3 Laver 4 Gonzalez 5 Borg 6 Kramer 7 Budge 8 Connors 9 Lendl 10 McEnroe

Ladies           1)Steffi Graf          2)Martina Navratilova          3)Helen Wills-Moody          4)Suzanne Lenglen          5)Margaret Court          6)Chris Evert          7)Billie Jean King          8)Maureen Connolly          9)Monica Seles          10)Serena Williams

About author: Paul Fein is a tennis journalist for more than 28 years.He is the author of the book "Tennis confidential".

Tennis Greats of Open Era by Joel Drucker

On May 14 2008, ESPN analyst Joel Drucker released the  "Greats of the Open era" list.

1. Steffi Graf: Her 22 Grand Slam singles titles say it all. She's the only player to have won at least four times at every major, as well as the "Golden Slam" in 1988, when she won all of them and added an Olympic gold medal. Graf also was Henin's idol, a player Henin watched in person playing in the 1992 French Open final. Sitting in Paris that afternoon with her mother, Francoise, Henin declared she too would one day compete on that court.

2. Martina Navratilova: Her 18 Grand Slam singles victories make her the most complete all-court player in tennis history. Navratilova also won a staggering 41 doubles Slams and brought dominance to new heights for much of the '80s.

3. Chris Evert: She won 18 Grand Slam titles, highlighted by a record 13 straight years of winning at least one Slam singles title.

4. Billie Jean King: It's easy to overlook this activist's massive on-court accomplishments, which include 12 singles Slams, 27 doubles majors and the distinctive achievement of becoming the first female athlete to earn $100,000 in a calendar year.

5. Margaret Court: She won a record 24 Slam singles and 62 overall. Though 11 of those singles victories came in a relatively shallow Australian Championships event, it's often forgotten that in 1970, Court won a calendar-year Grand Slam.

6. Monica Seles: It's not just that Seles won nine Grand Slam singles crowns, but she also took over the game from Graf in a rapid-fire way. Between June 1990 and January 1993, Seles won a staggering eight Slams, taking three apiece in '91 and '92 before her tragic stabbing in April '93.

7. Serena Williams: Besides being the first player since Graf to complete a career Slam, Williams has earned a total of eight Slams and proven herself, if not always consistent, as a big-occasion competitor. Having lost to Henin in three Slams last year, surely Williams must be viewing her possibilities in an even more positive light than ever.

8. Justine Henin: She has seven Slams, a pair of runner-up showings in the one Slam she never won (Wimbledon), 41 tournament titles, an Olympic gold medal and three years of finishing the year ranked No. 1 in the world. (For comparison's sake, Serena and Venus Williams have done this once between them.)

9. Venus Williams: Six Slams, highlighted by four victories at Wimbledon. Also twice won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the same year and earned an Olympic gold medal.

10. Martina Hingis, Evonne Goolagong: Each peaked as a teen. Hingis took three of her five career Slams at age 16 and won 43 singles tournaments. At 19, Goolagong won the '71 French Open over a weak field, but dazzled the world when a month later she beat King and Court at Wimbledon -- and nine years later, as a mother, earned a second Wimbledon title when she defeated Evert.

Greatest of All Time tennis players by Steve Flink

In 2008, Tennis Historian and Journalist  sir Steve Flink named Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf as the best female players of all time in male,female categories respectively.

The list of greatest ever of all time tennis players:

Gentlemen 1. Pete Sampras 2. Rod Laver 3. Kramer 4. Roger Federer 5. Tilden 6. Borg 7. Budge 8. Gonzalez 9. Connors 10. McEnroe

Ladies   1. Steffi Graf   2. Martina Navratilova   3. Chris Evert   4. Helen Wills Moody   5. Margaret Court   6. Suzanne Lenglen   7. Maureen Connolly   8. Billie Jean King   9. Monica Seles   10. Serena Williams

Note: Steve Flink is the author of " The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century", published in 1999. Steve named same players(Sampras and Graf) as greatest ever players in that book.
Steve will be writing a weekly column every Tuesday for TennisChannel.com.
* Contact Steve Flink.

Steffi Graf is the best on the best Tennis Television(TV) ratings also

Recently CBS released the list of top-3 best & worst rated Wimbledon and US Open finals.

Interestingly Steffi Graf's 3 wimbledon finals placed on top-3 highest rated list of Wimbledon ladies finals.

Top-3 Highest rated Wimbledon finals:

1. 1992 Wimbledon final : Steffi Graf vs Monica Seles 5.3
2. 1989 Wimbledon final:  Steffi Graf vs Martina Navratilova 4.5
3. 1988 Wimbledon final:  Steffi Graf vs Martina Navratilova 4.4

Note: Steffi is the winner in all those matches.

Top-3 Highest rated US Open finals

1. 2001 US Open final: Venus Williams vs Serena Williams, 6.8
2. 1999 US Open final:  Serena Williams vs Martina Hingis, 6.3
3. 1995 US Open final:  Steffi Graf vs. Monica Seles, 5.2  

Source: For the complete&original Observer article: click here

Stefanie Graf Marketing GmbH

Founding: In 1996, Steffi Graf founded the Steffi Graf Sport GmbH (SGS) with specific aims: bringing management and business-associated activities more in line with her character; and establishing a sports-marketing and consulting firm.
In July 2000 the name of the representing company changed to Stefanie Graf Marketing GmbH & Co. KG (SGM).

Aims: At first, the company's main objectives were focused on the marketing, support and promotion of Steffi Graf, and on the Steffi Graf Team (founded 1997).
In 1997, however, the company organized and promoted the Fed Cups, thereby taking its first steps into event marketing.


Other focuses of the company:
-- Consulting The Stefanie Graf Marketing GmbH & Co.KG also links target groups and objective analyses with marketing and communication concepts, together with its clients.

-- Ideas and Concepts The SGM presents ideas, creates concepts and project plans, which are linked closely with the actual marketing and communications concepts.

-- Coordination and
Organization The company takes on planning, organization, and coordination of all actions with clients, sponsors, licensees, suppliers etc.

-- Conversion The Stefanie Graf Marketing GmbH & Co.KG supports the professional conversion of all projects.

-- Controlling and
Analyses Furthermore, the SGM leads and controls all work, budgets, licenses, deadlines, etc. Success is additionally controlled media analyses, clipping services and television research.

-- End products At the conclusion of each project, the SGM GmbH & Co.KG produces documentation and leads a final conference with its clients.

Address: Stefanie Graf Marketing
GmbH & Co.KG
Mallaustr. 75
68219 Mannheim
Manager: Hans Engert
Telephone: 0621 – 87 50 50
Fax: 0621 – 87 505 70

Stefanie Graf takes part in Terrific AG

Stefanie Graf is contributing significantly to the young start-up company from Duesseldorf, Terrific AG, with the intention of sharing articles stemming from her vast experiences and contacts.

"Of course it was sports in the first place which made the initial contact to Terrific. But compared to other offers, the Terrific team presented a clear-cut concept right from the start. The possibility to create certain subjects like fitness and wellness according to my own intentions and together with a start-up company appealed to me as well. I will be able to make use of the experiences I gathered during my active tennis life both for editorial contributions and for the sports world shop", Stefanie Graf says. The on-line shop will open in the next weeks under the name Stefanie Graf Sportsworld.

At www.terrific.de thе nеw sports portal wіll present news, entertainment, information аnd ideas covering topics ѕuсh аѕ sports, fitness аnd wellness. Initially, thе online customer wіll bе аblе tо order а wide range оf biking, outdoor аnd tennis articles. Sооn thе shop wіll аlѕо offer products fоr fitness, swimming аnd badminton. Expert advice оn thе products аnd thеіr materials аѕ wеll аѕ suggestions fоr use, maintenance аnd mоrе wіll bе аvаіlаblе оn аn expanded site оf оvеr 100 pages. Terrific AG intends tо gо public іn autumn 2001.

Details of Steffi Graf fan clubs

Steffi Graf Fan Club
- c/o Michael Giesinger, Lm Schletter 2, A-6844 Altach, Austria
- c/o Furloni Clemens, Via Ugo Foscolo 28, 25040 Cividate Camuno (Bs), Italy

Steffi Graf International Supporters' Club

Jackie Tanner, 12108 Stoney Spur, San Antonio, TX 78247-3439, USA
(e-mail: 73753.2571@CompuServe.COM)
Chris Skelton, 308-2077 Prospect St, Burlington, Ontario L7R 1Z4, Canada
(e-mail: cskelton@hookup.net)
Peter Burton, 6 Kershope Close, Goldington, Bedford MK41 OAQ, UK
Anke Rossol, OT Gadenstedt, Meierstrasse 8, D-31246 Lahstedt, Germany
Alexandre Cheral, 15, parc du Chateau, F-78430 Louveciennes, France

Sponsorships/Endorsements

• Adidas (whole career(1982-99) and since 2005 again) 
• Dunlop rackets & clothes(from early in her career to end 1993) 
• Granini (German fruit juice) 
• BASF 
• General Motors' Opel cars (there's a car called Opel Corsa Steffi Special around 1989 if I'm not wrong) 
• Wilson racquets (from 1994-1999) 
• SAT-1 (German TV) 
• Barilla pasta 
• Rexona
  Ad details:Steffi played volleyball in one of the ads. It was on tv here every 5 minutes at some point in Germany and also in the Netherlands. It almost caused me a Steffi burn out (like Hingis in the shower with the apple from Sanex) 

• Apollinaris was another brand she promoted. Steffi was swimming there (wasn't there something with a baby?)It was on German tv somewhere around 1997/1998. It's about water

• Schwartau
  She also promoted sunglasses and watches at some point
  

• Gerry Weber was another sponsor 
• Frutties (but that's probably granina) 
• Yogurt company
  The yoghurt was named fruttis
  Sudmilch (now campina) 
• PORSCHE AG, Zuffenhausen
• SKL
• JADE Cosmetics 
• Canon
  
• Head
• Kreiss
• Genworth
• Mrs Sporty
• Teekanne
• Longines (since 2009)
• Exclusive Resorts
(....will added missing names)