FRANKFURT, July 9: Germany's top woman tennis star, Steffi Graf, who is recovering from knee surgery, says she expects to return to play this fall.

``If everything goes well, i'll be able to play again in late autumn and will then be in the tournament of the Masters of Champions in Frankfurt at the beginning of December,'' Graf told Sunny, a German weekly newspaper yesterday.

Following major knee surgery on June 10 in Vienna, Austria, the 28-year-old Graf, who has won Wimbledon seven times was unable to defend her title this year, says she has no complaints.

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