Título: Steffi Graf
Seção: Playing style
Background: Stefanie Graf was born on 14 June 1969, in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, West Germany, to Heidi Schalk and Peter Graf (18 June 1938 - 30 November 2013), a car and insurance salesman. When she was nine years old her family moved to the neighbouring town of Bruhl. She has a younger brother Michael. Graf was introduced to tennis by her father, an aspiring tennis coach, who taught his three-year-old daughter how to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room.

Conteúdo: The main weapons in Graf's game were her powerful inside-out forehand drive (which earned her the moniker Fraulein Forehand) and her intricate footwork. She often positioned herself in her backhand corner and although this left her forehand wide open and vulnerable to attack, her court speed meant that only the most accurate shots wide to her forehand caused any trouble. Graf's technique on the forehand was unique and instantly recognizable: generating considerable racquet head speed with her swing, she reached the point of contact late and typically out of the air. As a result, she hit her forehand with exceptional pace and accuracy. According to her coaches Pavel Slozil and Heinz Gunthardt, Graf's superior sense of timing was the key behind the success of her forehand.  Graf also had a powerful backhand drive but over the course of her career tended to use it less frequently, opting more often for an effective backhand slice. Starting in the early 1990s, she used the slice almost exclusively in baseline rallies and mostly limited the topspin backhand to passing shots. Her accuracy with the slice, both cross-court and down the line and her ability to skid the ball and keep it low, enabled her to use it as an offensive weapon to set the ball up for her forehand put-aways. However, Graf admitted in 1995 that she would have preferred having a two-handed backhand in retrospect.  She built her powerful and accurate serve up to 174 km/h (108 mph), making it one of the fastest serv

user: whos playing style are we talking about in this story?

assistant: Graf's

user: what is the first name of this person

assistant: Steffi

user: what was something about this persons playing style that really stuck out

assistant: She often positioned herself in her backhand corner and although this left her forehand wide open and vulnerable to attack,

user: did this style do good for her and help her win

assistant: As a result, she hit her forehand with exceptional pace and accuracy.

user: did she ever get hurt using this style

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: what was something else she did?

assistant: Graf remains the only player, male or female, to have won the calendar-year Grand Slam on three surfaces or to have won each Grand Slam at least four times.

user: did this playing style win her any awards

assistant: Her endurance and superior footwork allowed her to excel on clay courts,

user: did she use her playing style to win proceeds for charities

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: what else interesting happened

assistant: in addition to six French Open titles, she won 26 regular tour events, including a record eight titles at the German Open.