Editing Steffi Graf (section)

===Records===
{{original research|section|date=July 2016}}
* These records were attained in [[Open Era]] of tennis.
* Records in '''bold''' indicate Open Era peer-less achievements.

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!Time span
!Selected Grand Slam tournament records
!Players matched
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|1988 Australian Open —<br /> 1988 Olympics||Golden Slam (4 majors + Olympic gold in same calendar year)||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988 Australian Open —<br /> 1988 US Open||[[List of Grand Slam women's singles champions|Grand Slam]] (4 majors in same calendar year)<ref name="NO.1 SPOTLIGHT: STEFFI GRAF">{{cite web|title=NO.1 SPOTLIGHT: STEFFI GRAF|url=http://www.wtatennis.com/40love/article/3150587/title/no1-spotlight-steffi-graf|website=wtatennis.com|publisher=WTA|date=20 April 2013|access-date=15 July 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122014432/http://www.wtatennis.com/40love/article/3150587/title/no1-spotlight-steffi-graf|archive-date=22 January 2016}}</ref>||[[Margaret Court]]
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|1987 French Open —<br /> 1988 Olympics||Career Golden Slam||[[Serena Williams]]
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|1987 French Open —<br /> 1988 US Open||Career Grand Slam||Margaret Court<br />[[Billie Jean King]]<br />[[Chris Evert]]<br />[[Martina Navratilova]]<br />Serena Williams<br />[[Maria Sharapova]]
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|rowspan="2"| 1993 French Open —<br /> 1994 Australian Open||Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam||Martina Navratilova<br />Serena Williams
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|Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam in addition to already winning a Grand Slam||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988 Australian Open —<br /> 1990 Australian Open||Winner of 8 of 9 Grand Slams||Margaret Court
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|rowspan="2"| 1988, 1995 & 1996||100% match winning percentage in 1 season||Margaret Court<br />Billie Jean King<br />Chris Evert<br />[[Monica Seles]]<br />Serena Williams
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|100% match winning percentage in 3 separate seasons||'''Stands alone'''
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|1983 French Open —<br /> 1999 Wimbledon||89.67% (278–32) match winning percentage overall||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988 French Open||Double bagel win in a Grand Slam final||[[Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers]]
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|1987 French Open —<br /> 1995 US Open||4+ titles at all four Majors<ref name="Steffi Graf Results">{{cite web|title=Steffi Graf Results|url=http://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/2718/title/steffi-graf#stats|website=wtatennis.com|publisher=WTA|access-date=15 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718221517/http://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/2718/title/steffi-graf#stats|archive-date=18 July 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>||'''Stands alone'''
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|1987 French Open —<br /> 1989 US Open||2+ consecutive titles at all four Majors<ref name="Steffi Graf Results"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988 Australian Open —<br /> 1996 US Open||5 calendar years winning 3+ Grand Slam titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988 French Open —<br /> 1989 US Open||Defended all four Majors on first try<ref name="Steffi Graf Results"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|rowspan="2"| 1987 French Open —<br /> 1999 French Open||6+ titles on clay, grass and hardcourt||'''Stands alone'''
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|9+ finals on clay, grass and hardcourt||'''Stands alone'''
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|1987 French Open —<br /> 1990 French Open||13 consecutive Grand Slam finals<ref name="NO.1 SPOTLIGHT: STEFFI GRAF"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|1999 French Open||Defeated the top 3 seeded players in the same tournament||'''Stands alone'''
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|rowspan="2"| 1988 Australian Open —<br /> 1993 US Open||Reached the final of all four Grand Slams tournaments in a calendar year||Margaret Court<br />Chris Evert<br />Martina Navratilova<br />Monica Seles<br />[[Martina Hingis]]<br />[[Justine Henin]]
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|Reached the final of all four Grand Slams tournaments in a calendar year three times||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988 Australian Open —<br /> 1996 US Open||[[List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Grand Slam|3 different Grand Slam titles won without losing a set]]||[[Chris Evert]] <br /> [[Lindsay Davenport]] <br /> [[Serena Williams]]
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!Grand Slam tournaments
!Time span
!Records at each Grand Slam tournament
!Players matched
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|rowspan="2"| Australian Open||1988–1990||3 consecutive titles||Margaret Court<br />Evonne Goolagong Cawley<br />[[Monica Seles]]<br />[[Martina Hingis]]
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|1988–1989, 1994||[[List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Grand Slam|3 titles won without losing a set]]||[[Evonne Goolagong]]
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|Australian Open—French Open||1988||[[List of Grand Slam women's singles champions#Grand Slam|2 titles won without losing a set in the same calendar year]]||[[Billie Jean King]] <br /> [[Martina Navratilova]] <br /> [[Martina Hingis]] <br /> [[Serena Williams]] <br /> [[Justine Henin]]
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|rowspan="3"| French Open||1987–1999||[[List of French Open Singles Finals appearances#Women|9 finals overall]]<ref name="Roland Garros">{{cite web|title=Steffi Graf's record at Roland-Garros|url=http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/content/default/steffi_graf.html|website=rolandgarros.com|publisher=Roland Garros|access-date=15 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720202843/http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/content/default/steffi_graf.html|archive-date=20 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>||[[Chris Evert]]
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|1987–1990||[[List of French Open Singles Finals appearances#Women's most consecutive finals|4 consecutive finals]]<ref name="Roland Garros"/>||Chris Evert<br />[[Martina Navratilova]]
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|1983–1999||84 match wins<ref name="Roland Garros"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|Wimbledon||1984–1999||'''Career match winning performance 91.35% (74–7)'''<ref name="Steffi Graf Results"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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!Time span
!Other selected records
!Players matched
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|17 August 1987 —<br /> 10 March 1991||[[List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players|186 consecutive weeks at No. 1]]<ref name="NO.1 SPOTLIGHT: STEFFI GRAF"/>||[[Serena Williams]]
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|1987–1997||377 total weeks at No. 1<ref name="NO.1 SPOTLIGHT: STEFFI GRAF"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|1987–1990<br />1993–1996||8 years ended at No. 1||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988–1990, 1994, 1996||5 years as wire-to-wire (all 52 weeks) No. 1||'''Stands alone'''
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|1987, 1989||Reached the final of every tournament played in a calendar year||Monica Seles
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|1986–1990<br />1992–1996||Two streaks of 5 years with winning percentage of 90%+||'''Stands alone'''
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|1986–1996||9 [[German Open (WTA)|German Open]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1986–89 & 1991–94||4 consecutive [[German Open (WTA)|German Open]] title wins<ref name="Steffi Graf Results"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|1985–1996||11 [[German Open (WTA)|German Open]] finals<ref name="Steffi Graf Results"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|1986–1996||11 consecutive [[German Open (WTA)|German Open]] finals<ref name="Steffi Graf Results"/>||'''Stands alone'''
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|1987–1995||6 [[Virginia Slims of Florida]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1986–1995||9 [[Virginia Slims of Florida]] finals||'''Stands alone'''
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|1992–1995||4 consecutive [[Virginia Slims of Florida]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1990–1998||5 [[Sparkassen Cup (tennis)|Sparkassen Cup]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1986–1992||6 [[Zurich Open]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1987–1993||6 [[WTA Hamburg]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1989–1994||4 [[Southern California Open]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1986–1989||3 [[WTA New Jersey]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1986–1992||6 [[Brighton International]] titles||'''Stands alone'''
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|1988–1998||4 [[Connecticut Open (tennis)|Connecticut Open]] titles||[[Venus Williams]]<br />[[Caroline Wozniacki]]
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|1992–1998||3 [[Advanta Championships of Philadelphia|WTA Philadelphia]] titles||[[Lindsay Davenport]]<br />[[Gabriela Sabatini]]
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|1986–1990||3 [[Amelia Island Championships|Amelia Island]] titles||[[Amélie Mauresmo]]
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|1988–1996||8 WTA Tier 1/Premier-5/Premier Mandatory clay titles<ref name="Steffi Graf Results"/>||[[Conchita Martínez]]
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|1992–1995||89.63% win rate (147–17) in WTA Tier 1/Premier-5/Premier Mandatory events||'''Stands alone'''
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[[File:Steffi Graf Farewell World Tour 2000.JPG|thumb|upright=.8|Graf Farewell World Tour 2000]]