It shifted attention away from that and I've never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.

1 men's tennis player Andre Agassi in October 2001. In 1997 Graf lost in the 4th round of Australian open in straight sets 2–6 5–7 to Amanda Coetzer. Tennis writer Steve Flink in his book The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century named her as the best female player of the 20th century.

3. Graf reached thirteen consecutive Grand Slam singles finals from the 1987 French Open through to the 1990 French Open winning nine of them.