US Open icon looks unrecognizable alongside tennis hero husband after making rare public appearance at casino
TENNIS legend Steffi Graf has been spotted in public years after her incredible career.
Graf is one of the greatest women’s tennis players of all time, and is enjoying retirement with her husband.
Graf was spotted at at the Pickleball Championship over Labor Day Weekend in Las Vegas.
She was alongside husband Andre Agassi to check out the Fountainbleau hotel and casino after the match.
Graf owns many special records from her career that started in 1982.
She debuted in her first professional tournament at Filderstadt, Germany, losing to US Champion Tracy Austin.
Her career kicked off from there as Graf picked up 22 major single titles in her career, the third most of all time.
Even more impressive is that Graf is the only player in history, men’s or women’s, to complete the Golden Slam.
In 1988, she won all four major singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same season.
Graf is also the only player, men’s or women’s, to win every major singles tournament at least four times each.
She was ranked No. 1 a record 377 total weeks and won 107 singles titles, third all time.
Graf’s husband, Agassi, turned pro at 16 years old in 1986 and won his first match.
By the end of his career he won eight major championships and became the first men’s player to win a career Golden Slam and career Super Slam.
The career Super Slam is winning all four major titles, the Olympic title, and the Tour Finals in a career.
Agassi and Graf married in 2001, and he said he was immediately drawn to her from the start.
“It was something from the outside—I think it’s one of the things people do,” Agassi said in a 2009 Oprah interview.
“They gravitate toward people that have something they don’t have. I’ve always gravitated toward people like that in my life.
“I looked at Stefanie and saw someone who dealt with the same pressures that I did in many respects from the outside, and she did it with an unspeakable grace.
“She was so understated and seemed to be a lot better at life than I was.
“She seemed to be everything I wished that I was.
“When I told her I hated tennis she basically said, ‘Don’t we all?’ Of course there are things to hate. Somehow that wasn’t the point.
“She found a way to push through, find the joy in it—things that it can give and to find ways to connect to it. It inspired me.”