This is the story of one of the most iconic tennis matches in history. On July 9th, 1988, Steffi Graf faced off against Martina Navratilova in the Wimbledon final. Graf emerged victorious, becoming the first German woman to win the tournament since 1937
Stefanie Maria Graf, known professionally as Steffi Graf and preferring to be called Stefanie since 2001, is a German former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for a record 377 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 a record eight times. Graf won 107 singles titles on the WTA Tour, including 22 major women's singles titles, the second-most since the start of the Open Era in 1968 and the third-most of all time. She is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won each major singles tournament at least four times—a quadruple career Grand Slam.