Fact Check: Veteran tennis star Steffi Graf is still alive
Tennis star Carlos Alcaraz beat all-time champion Novak Djokovic to retain his men’s singles title at Wimbledon. This finals match between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz was attended by several celebrities including the Princess of Wales.
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Tennis star Carlos Alcaraz beat all-time champion Novak Djokovic to retain his men’s singles title at Wimbledon. This finals match between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz was attended by several celebrities including the Princess of Wales. Eight-time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi also attended the match.
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf are an iconic Tennis couple who dominated the game of tennis for a decade. Meanwhile, a news article is being shared on social media claiming that Steffi Graf has passed away, and was shared by a public group named Steffi Graf.
When we clicked on the link shared by the post, we found a news article published on sportybird247.com. The news article with the title: “SAD NEWS: Stefanie Maria Graf, German former tennis player Dies at The Age of 55 due to…see more”
The article published on July 17, 2024, discusses her achievements in Tennis, and claims that she is dead, but there is no mention of the cause of her death. There is no mention of the date of death or other details.
Fact Check:
The claim is False. Steffi Graf is still alive and the article published is a clickbait article.
When we observed the website carefully, we found several articles with titles starting with “Sad News…”. The majority of the top stories on the website are of the deaths of players due to plane crashes.
The About Us page does not contain reliable information to confirm the authenticity of the website.
When we looked up the domain details of this website on Whois domain tools, we did not find any reliable information about the site.
Upon further search about the news articles relating to Steffi Graf, we found an article published on a website named Essentially Sports, which states that Tennis couples don’t get better or more iconic than Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf! A dominant presence at Wimbledon in the last two decades of the 20th century, the retired WTA player is getting lauded once again by her husband. Since the couple’s first meeting took place at Wimbledon in 1992, the Grand Slam holds a special place in both ex-players’ hearts. While in a rare appearance, Agassi attended the Gentlemen’s Singles final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic, the Championships would be remiss without Steffi Graf.
Hence, the news article published by the website sportybird247.com is a clickbait article, intending to attract the audience to gather clicks by using attention-grabbing headlines. The claim that Steffi Graf has passed away is False.