Personal Life
In the 1990s, she had a long term relationship with racing car driver Michael Bartels.
She married Andre Agassi on 22 October 2001, with only their mothers as witnesses. Four days later Graf gave birth, six weeks prematurely, to their son Jaden Gil. Their daughter, Jaz Elle, was born 3 October 2003.
In 1991, the Steffi Graf Youth Tennis Center in Leipzig was dedicated. She is the founder and chairperson of "Children for Tomorrow", a non-profit foundation for implementing and developing projects to support children who have been traumatized by war or other crises.
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