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Article: You just hope Steffi Graf is finally enjoying herself.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 23, 1998
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CHICAGO _ When she first turned pro, she was too young _ 13 _ to mix well with the women she was busy pounding.
As she entered her prime, so intense a competitor that there was simply no room for friends, she was easily cast as the villain, running off Chris Evert, offending Martina Navratilova and snubbing the hierarchy of women's tennis, which claimed it wanted her as an ambassador.
She never had the luxury of aging gracefully in her sport because she was too occupied with her father's tax problems and subsequent jail time, the stabbing of a rival that was blamed on her and her own tennis mortality.
Her precise power game may have been the ...