Steffi Graf Awards, Achievements And Career Highlights

Awards

1986 "Most Improved Player" WTA TOUR
1987-90 "Player of the Year" WTA TOUR
1993-96 "Player of the Year" WTA TOUR
1996, 98-99 "Most Exciting Player of the Year" WTA TOUR
1987-90 "World Champion" ITF award.
1993, 95-96 "World Champion" ITF award
1988 "BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year"
1989 "Associated press female athlete of the year"
1999 "Prince of Asturias Award" one of the most important awards of Spain named after the apparent heir of Spain, Prince Felipe
1999 "German Television Award"
1999 "Athlete of the Century" for the category "female athlete in ballsports"
1999 "Female Athlete of the Year" by German TV broadcaster ARD
1999 "Female Sports Award of the last Decade" by ESPY, Las Vegas
1999 "Olympic Medal of Honor" granted by Dr. Antonio Samaranch, President of the IOC,Lausanne
2002 "Medal of Honor" decorated by the Prime Minister of Graf's home state Baden-Württemberg, Mr. Erwin Teufel

Steffi Graf was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.

Special Honours

Steffi is the only female to be selected for Forbes Top-30 "Most recognizable and marketable athletes" list in 1995.

Selected for "European Heroes" in 2004 by TIME Magazine.

• Voted "Germans greatest rolemodel" by TV14 magazine.
• Voted "Most admirable German woman" by Amica magazine.
• Voted "Germany's Sportswoman of the Century" in 1999 by the German press.
• Steffi is the only person to have won the 'Golden Slam' (1988)

In the first season episode "The Crackpots and these Women" of The West Wing, President Bartlet brings in a ringer for a basketball game with the senior staff. Toby Zieglar mentions that it was like the time he and C.J. were playing doubles with him once and he brought in someone he claimed worked at the American Consulate who (despite his denial) was in fact Steffi Graf.