Word: steffi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SUDDENLY STEFFI...
Tales of these twisted relationships run from the tasteless to the tragic--from Brooke Shields' mother, who pushed her daughter around Hollywood like an ice-cream wagon, to Steffi Graf's crook of a father, who broke her heart. Tennis offers an especially good stage for watching these parents in action. There they sit in the best courtside seats, often functioning as "coaches," glaring stone-faced in fury or some other psychotic mood at their investment offspring, who are incidentally their children...
...RETIRED. STEFFI GRAF, 30, unflappable tennis star; following a series of injuries; in Heidelberg, Germany. During her 17-year career, Graf let loose her uniquely brutal forehand to win 22 Grand Slam singles titles and take home more than $20 million. Said the longtime No. 1: "I have nothing left to accomplish...
Poor Joyce Maynard. Not since Martina Hingis submarined a serve to Steffi Graf in the French Open has a woman been so universally excoriated for underhanded conduct. And all Maynard did was sell a bunch of mash notes she had saved from a boyfriend of 27 years ago to raise college tuition for her children. Except that the boyfriend happened to be J.D. Salinger--the eremite of Cornish...
...STEFFI GRAF In comeback, German ace gets the French to cheer her with her first Grand Slam title since...