
2- The Salesman and the Artist
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Steffi Graf and Monica Seles didn’t become legends alone. In this episode, we go inside the Graf and Seles families: Peter and Heidi in Mannheim, Karolj and Ester in Novi Sad. A hard-driving car-and-insurance salesman and a creative cartoonist/PE teacher each decide tennis is their child’s ticket out. We trace how two very different parents, cultures and childhoods helped forge two of the fiercest champions in tennis history—and set the stage for the Graf–Seles rivalry that would change women’s tennis forever.
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