The situation has become painfully familiar to Steffi Graf. For the third time in her last four tournaments, Graf breezed past her opponents to reach the championship match against the same opponent: ...

It was late in the second set of her U.S. Open semifinal match when Steffi Graf walked to the baseline to serve. For 30 seconds or so, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario remained seated, as technically the ...

After a week of avoiding the temptation to look ahead, Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini are staring one another in the face in the Bausch & Lomb Championships. The biggest rivalry in women`s tennis ...

It was one bizarre production on the heels of another as two instances of unintentional self-destruction were played out in the women's semifinals at the French Open on Thursday afternoon. "If I ever ...

Steffi Graf stood alone Saturday on a grass court burned brown, struggling against pressure and fear, but mostly fighting to regain all she once had. This had nothing to do with history or Wimbledon ...

Though these days she favors the name Stefanie, during her brilliant career, this thoroughly dedicated German was known to the world as Steffi Graf. Her resume is epic – 107 WTA singles titles, ...

WIMBLEDON, England — Steffi Graf stood alone yesterday on a grass court burned brown, struggling against pressure and fear, but mostly fighting to regain all she once had. This had nothing to do with ...

Steffi Graf didn’t really know how it slipped away. Or at what point precisely. She seemed almost as baffled as her opponent, Gabriela Sabatini, who, trailing, 3-0, Saturday in the third set of their ...

Tennis has been transformed over the last five decades by TV, money, technology, equipment, fashion and politics. But through all of that, the players have remained at the heart of the game. As part ...

BOCA RATON — Chris Evert believes in the Law of Averages. Steffi Graf believes in herself. Evert lost to Gabriela Sabatini 6-1, 7-5 for the first time in her career Saturday at the Virginia Slims of ...

KEY BISCAYNE — She looked like the old Steffi Graf, winning the first set 6-0. But Graf wasn’t playing the old Gabriela Sabatini Thursday at Lipton. The Sabatini of the ’90s is a confident player who ...

WIMBLEDON, England — Loser. The label stuck to Gabriela Sabatini, this one-time teen-age phenom who couldn’t make the transition to adult star. She had all the tennis shots that any woman would want, ...