Top 9 German tennis players of all time

#1 Steffi Graf

Steffi Graf lifts the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship trophy in 1996

The greatest German tennis player of all time without a shadow of a doubt is Steffi Graf. A player of her stature needs no introduction; the numbers speak for themselves.

Whenever Graf's name is mentioned, a few records come to mind which will probably never be eclipsed - like her winning the Calendar Golden Slam (all four Majors and the Olympic gold medal in the same year) in 1988. Another unbreakable record is her achievement of winning at least four titles across each of the four Grand Slam tournaments.

No woman has been the World Number 1 ranked player for more weeks than Graf - she was World Number 1 for an awe-inspiring 377 weeks in total.

With 22 Grand Slam titles and 107 WTA singles titles overall, Graf's place in the annals of tennis history was cemented way before she announced her retirement from the sport in 1999.