More about the year 1980
She completes a hat-trick in Filderstadt — in the final Tracy Austin beats the American Sherry Acker and excites the tennis world with her tournament hat-trick. However, even more attention is focussed on a 15-year old teenager with braces, waist-length pony tails and the stoic efficiency of a computer-controlled racket arm. “Wunderkind” Andrea Jaeger catapults Germany’s top player Sylvia Hanika out of the competition and sparks a discussion as to how far parents should be allowed to push their young tennis daughters.