“I began ruining the furniture”—Steffi Graf remembers with nostalgia her early years of getting into…
During a recent MasterClass discussion in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Steffi Graf recalled how she became involved in the sport at a very young age and the impact that her father Peter and mother Heidi played in her early days.
Along with her husband Andre Agassi and local favorites Simona Halep and Andrei Pavel, the German played in an exhibition mixed doubles match on Saturday while she was in the city for the SportsFestival. In the end, the power couple lost the contest.
Graf then talked about how her parents influenced her career, recalling how she used to use their furniture as a net. She ultimately smashed some furniture while she recovered, which is why her mother told her to go practice on a real court.
