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Article: Fans embrace more emotional Steffi Graf.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 5, 1995
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PHILADELPHIA _ Steffi Graf walks down the street now and people come up to her, pat her on the back, tell her how much they enjoy her tennis, wish her good luck, and give her sympathy. This is something new.
When Steffi Graf was only a tennis machine, a grim reaper who won matches with a clinically dispassionate display of power and fierceness, she was seldom warmly embraced by fans or foes.
Now that Graf is wounded, caught up in an ugly tax-evasion case and hobbled with a chronically sore back, now that she is emotionally fragile and unable to hold back her tears or her pain on the tennis court, she has become beloved.
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