Peter Graf is the father of the German tennis star Steffi Graf. He introduced her to the game as a child and managed her career for several years. However in the 1990s scandals involving a Playboy model and the German tax authorities made Peter more a distraction than a help to Steffi's game, and ended up with Peter being jailed for tax evasion.
When Steffi was born in 1969, Peter was a car and insurance salesman with aspirations of being a ten...
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Peter Graf is the father of the German tennis star Steffi Graf. He introduced her to the game as a child and managed her career for several years. However in the 1990s scandals involving a Playboy model and the German tax authorities made Peter more a distraction than a help to Steffi's game, and ended up with Peter being jailed for tax evasion.
When Steffi was born in 1969, Peter was a car and insurance salesman with aspirations of being a tennis coach. He introduced his daughter to the game when she was three years old, starting out by teaching her to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room before progressing to practising on courts. Steffi soon began winning junior tournaments with regularity. In 1982 she won the European Championships 12s and 18s, and then turned professional at the age of 13.
Peter carefully managed Steffi's career, limiting the number of tournaments she entered during her first few years on the tour, organizing an intense practice routine, and...
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