Editing Steffi Graf (section)

==Early life==
Stefanie Graf was born on 14 June 1969, in [[Mannheim]], Baden-Württemberg, [[West Germany]], to Heidi Schalk and car-and-insurance salesman Peter Graf (18 June 1938 − 30 November 2013). When she was nine years old, her family moved to the neighboring town of [[Brühl (Baden)|Brühl]]. She has a younger brother, Michael.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thelocal.de/20131202/steffis-svengali-peter-graf-dies |title=Steffi's father Peter Graf dies after cancer battle |website=The Local |date=2 December 2013 |access-date=18 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611015950/http://www.thelocal.de/20131202/steffis-svengali-peter-graf-dies |archive-date=11 June 2015 |url-status=live  }}</ref> 

Her father, an aspiring tennis coach, first introduced her to the game, teaching his three-year-old daughter how to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20131206-story.html |title=PASSINGS: Peter Graf, Robert Dockson |work=Los Angeles Times |date=6 December 2013 |access-date=18 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001081719/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/06/local/la-me-passings-20131206 |archive-date=1 October 2014 |url-status=live  }}</ref> She began practising on a court at the age of four and played in her first tournament at five. She soon began taking the top prize at junior tournaments with regularity, going on to win the European Championships 12s and 18s in 1982.