Word: graf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newscast. He called CBS News President Howard Stringer and told him that if the Evening News did not begin on schedule, CBS Sports should fill the remaining time until the second, and final, edition of the news began at 7. When the semifinal match between Steffi Graf and Lori McNeil was still on the network at 6:30, Rather unclipped his microphone and left the set to call Stringer again. Moments later the match ended, and the network switched from New York to Miami for Rather's show. For six frantic minutes, more than 100 CBS stations that carry...
...string was strung between surviving sticks of furniture, and they began to play tennis. "We played for ice cream," she says, "ice cream with hot raspberries. There was music too. It was fun." Graf is a lean, athletic man, 48, not much taller than his daughter, who can seem smaller than 5 ft. 8. in., sometimes quite delicate. A latecomer to tennis, he was a soccer player of local note, given to working so excessively hard that he routinely ripped his muscles and powdered his bones. Of all the world's Little League parents, tennis may produce the most virulent...
...fact, remembering broken-down prodigies like Tracy Austin and Andrea Jaeger, her father has required her to rest every year from late November to mid-January, and to the dismay of tournament promoters, has kept her schedule reasonable. "Sometimes I have to be Mr. Graf," he says. "It's no fun." But the results have been as sweet as hot raspberries. "She is a champion from within. All from within," he says. "But her extra advantage may be the circle around her -- her mother and brother too." (A practice partner, Czech Pro Pavel Slozil, takes care to coach in whispers...
...baseliner-in-waiting. They are doubles partners and friends but could start a Centre Court rivalry next week in the quarterfinals. Evert says, "I can't believe how hard Steffi hits the ball." Her forehand especially. "She's wonderful," says Billie Jean King, who spotted Graf early. "Steffi always had better footwork than the other kids, more discipline, and she quite frankly liked the pressure. Becker is another one. They love pressure -- they thrive...
...championship torches are passing to Teenagers Boris Becker, 19, and Steffi Graf, 18, old practice partners from neighboring towns near Heidelberg. He is the two- time Wimbledon champion going for three in a row. She is the coming heir to Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, lately vincible at 30 but still unbeaten in five straight Wimbledons...