FULL VERSION Seles vs Novotna 1991 Australian Open
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- Опубликовано: 28 дек 2018
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PertSnergleman's Review:
Monica Seles won her first Australian Open and her second Grand Slam by outlasting, out-playing and out-classing Jana Novotna 5-7, 6-3, 6-1.
The deceptively cute 17-year-old Yugoslav also entered the record book as the youngest women's champion, shaving five months off the mark set 31 years ago by Hall of Fame great Margaret Court of Australia.
In 1990, this two-fisted barrel of dynamite established herself as the future heiress to the throne of No. 1 Steffi Graf by winning the French Open, the Virginia Slims Championships and seven other tour titles to claim the world`s No. 2 ranking... and elevates Seles into striking range of the struggling Graf and her four-year reign as the Queen of the WTA...
Seles took the lead for good at 2-1 in the last set by storming back from a 0-30 hole to break serve. At 30-30, Seles, stretched out far to her backhand side, flicked a smashing crosscourt service return that Novotna could not handle. On the next point, Novotna lamely sent an overhead shot wide.
Seles was off and running from there to the victory ceremony to climax her Australian Open debut. Over the final four games, Seles dominated the outgunned challenger.
The 10th-seeded Novotna, who was bidding to become the tournament`s lowest-seeded champion since 1978, opened with a crafty mixture of baseline play mixed with drop shots and strong serving to vault to a 3-1 lead over an out-of-sync Seles.
Seles had reached the final with a 6-3, 0-6, 9-7 victory over American Mary Joe Fernandez on a sweltering center court. Novotna, in addition to her quarterfinal victory over Graf, eliminated Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals.
It was so hot Thursday that Seles-tired from the previous day`s doubles play and singles practice-had to be told what the final score was of her marathon match with Fernandez.
''If you asked me what happened, I can't recall it, really,'' said Seles, who rarely has been at a loss for words during the tournament. 
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Monica the greatest competitor
1990s tennis was the best
Tenacious beast!! ❤
Especially without the dramatic histrionics of Serena and many of the men. She just keeps her head down and focuses on the next point. Never did she look at her box for support. It was all internal.
And I was on the court. Only guy in a wheelchair. Baseline umpire. 25:03 Thank you for the memories. I remember checking in for the tournament and running into Monica and her father. I will remember that day forever.
wow! What an experience that would have been!
I would have loved to see Monica play that close up. Lucky you.
Great memories of a great match Scott..hope you are doing well..
Monica, simply the best ever
I loved this version of Monica.... when life was much less complicated, she swung so freely and fearlessly at the ball. Before all of the hateful press, gruntometers, and nasty Graf fans doing their worst trolling. It was cut way too short, but it was a great run while it lasted.
Agreed with u Monica was so innocent and the evil Gunther parche took everything away from her so much pressure at Wimbledon than Steffi Graf at the 1993 was furious when she lost Aussie open she broke the locker with her racket and then this evil monster was very upset seeing Graf getting frustrated for not winning nothing he was planning to do something at the 1993 Hamburg tournament so it was Graf fault too
@@MarkMoran-rs1rm Monica pre stabbing was a wild nutjob, hardly what I call innocent. Great player but she was a clown as a human. Read her former coach Nick Bolleteiri's book and the Monica section about her refusing to pay for years of coaching her, and all the other lies she told in the 89-92 period if you don't believe me.
@@luthorlex-fc9ft She was a teenage girl during that time. Y'all always seem to forget that. 😳😂
Even though I knew who won already, I was enjoying the match as if seeing it for the first time. Love Monica!
Awesome 17 years Monica
I adore Monica. Monica is my favorite tennis player
Nice fight though Novotna
God Bless Jana! Glad she won Wimbledon.
Monica just too good.
A good match between two players for whom life would deal some very tragic cards. Good to see them here in their prime.
@T H 👏🙂Very well said.
Everyone gets dealt tragic cards at some point in their life.
@@AGoat1971 🙁Very true.
@@AGoat1971 indeed, but theirs was especially so. They had to face them much younger than than anyone should have to face things like that, especially Jana whose life was cut short decades before her time.
absolutely agree.
Monica Selles at her best was the greatest female tennis player of all time !!!!
Monica❤️❤️❤️❤️
Monica was a great player!!!
clearly more than that...i don't know how many goats there are but,she is definitely a G.O.A.T.....what she achieved in such short lapse is mind blowing
How in the world can a 33-year-old recording have almost the best audio I've ever heard on a RUclips video?! Good job, whoever is responsible for this!
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Mate, yet another GREAT Seles match!!
Right back at ya! ;)
Agreed
I don't see any tennis player could take Seles' place. Look how she handled her stabbing case and took slams pasca the incident: physically, mentally and emotionally. None of players experiences such a casualty. If the stabbing never happens, Seles will be the most successful player of all time.
Jana was a terrific player, with a unique game. Glad she finally won Wimbledon. She passed too soon.
Two great players the best of there time ❤
Monica just dazzling!
A new chapter, a new name, AND a new Queen! 👑🎾🏆
I miss the 90s era, it was full of colourful athletes and they really shone on the spotlight...
monica was so cute/pretty around this time.
Monica the greatest ever..
I think Monica is one of the GREATEST TENNIS PLAYER OF ALL TIME
Monica❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you great match. RIP Jana Novotna.
u mean she already dead??
@@rolandgreen7484 we shdnt say bad thing about her☺
@@rolandgreen7484 Are you a strong tennis player, right Jack? Did you played many tennis matches, right Bob?
Monica 🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️😍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Monika is GOAT
Monica was my idol. / I have a big thought for Jana Novotna, gone too soon in 2017, she was a sweet girl and had such a classy game. RIP Jana. :(
Monica was a beast of a competitor remember 8 GS as a teenager no one even came close to that! RIP Jana 😇🙏🏾
Maureen Connolly also won 8 in her teens. Some parallels with Monica. Both won 9 overall, and both had their top flight careers cut short by an event. In Maureen Connolly's case, a horse riding accident.
@@th8257 You cannot compare a horse riding accident to being stabbed on court. 🙄
@@ChicanoPhD??? Maureen Connolly also died of cancer when she was 34. That good enough for you?? I wasn't comparing them. I said both had their careers cut short. Why are you Graf / Seles fans so weird and obsessive?
@@th8257 I watched footage of Maureen and that 40 mph serve was not it. Clearly no competition in those days. 😂
I loved Yana Novotna's game & general smooth sportsmanship. It broke my heart when I heard of her passing last year at such a young age. This match is particularly hard to watch . Before SERENA &VENUS Williams, THIS WAS FOR ME THE BEST TENNIS AGE.
Glorious Years 😍✨✨🎾🎾🎾
@La Reina De Java 👍😀 Yes.
Great match! GREAT PLAYERS!!! Thank u.
Excellent win and wonderful Championship for Monica!! :) Two legends playing in this match - great love for both :)
both are amazing players 👏
Wow ! Monica had to make adjustments to beat Novotna's net game .
Very exciting match .
Monica #1 ❤
Classic contrast of styles, shame Novotna ran out of steam in the 3rd set, Seles wore her down. Monica definitely had the edge on this surface
Both very talented women ,
Jana Novotna ha quasi sempre disputato grandi partite contro Navratilova,Graf e Seles:una sola vittoria contro Martina(SF Wimbledon '93),tre vittorie su Steffi(QF Australian Open 91,86 al 3° set;QF WTA Championship MSG 91,63 36 61,e SF Chicago indoor '92,06 63 75; più una vittoria in finale a Filadelfia 96 per ritiro dopo aver vinto 64 il primo set).Contro la Seles le vittorie sarebbero arrivate dopo il ritorno di Monica(dopo la pugnalata del 93 ad Amburgo),un QF a Roland Garros nel 96(76 63),un QF al torneo olimpico di Atlanta '96(86 al 3° set)e una SF a Madrid in due set(terra rossa)alla vigilia del.Roland Garros '97!Jana ha vinto 4 volte su 5 contro la Martinez,11w/10L contro Arantxa,e bilancio favorevole tanto contro MJFernandez che contro la Capriati(sempre vinto).Contro la Sabatini Jana ha perso alla fine del 1990 due partite 76 al 3° set(SF Zurigo e 1° turno wta Championships MSG),complessivamente solo due vittorie su Gabriela:agli ottavi di finale del Roland Garros '90(64 75) e QF Wimbledon '93(64 63).Una grandissima giocatrice,piena oltre ogni immaginazione di talento,ma che purtroppo ha vinto 1/10 di ciò che avrebbe dovuto vincere.
I really enjoyed watching both of these ladies play tennis. Jana novotna had a great game to watch.
@ PertSnergleman ; Thank You for the upload of this video and other full matches.
This match is an Excellent, High Level, Competitive match!
Nice also to have the announcers/commentators' voices slightly muted.
Also nice to see the better racquet/racket frames and strings used then too.
Much appreciated!
All The Best and Much Success!
Sincerely,
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How did You get these entire videos of the entire broadcast?!! [Including the lengthy areal video of the Tennis Park and all of the introductions] It is Quite Wonderful and Delightful!
Ma'am..look at d points of those matches b4 Monica reached d finals🙂☺🙂 she's really really powerful 6-0 6-0, 6-1 6-0.....
Little Mo ❤
Novotna was such a talented player,but her greatest opponent was herself.
cant-sleep-Mónica baking ,but love this match
At only 17
Crazy innit...8 GS before 20 years of age, just INSANE.
@@jeremie2020 without that stabbing incident I wonder how many GS she would have ended up winning.
She was crazy good with insane determination level.
A lunatic finished everything
@@iamrips2132 I can't agree more rips. I've often asked myself this question, but we'll never have the answer unfortunately. Personally, I'm fairly sure that she could have been the GOAT GS wise (8GS at only 20...how many at 35/36...?) Graf was an incredible Champ too, but Monica's stabbing did her a huge favor, Steffi won pretty much everything after that, she didn't have any true rival anymore. The Monica (post stabbing) was no longer the same player/person, especially fitness wise owing to her bing eating disorder...The mean Gunter Parsche can be very proud of himself, he ruined Monica's career...
@@jeremie2020 I was 13 at that time. I still remember vividly that after the stabbing incident I was sooooo sad. I used to read the sports section of newspaper everyday to keep track of seles' health and the possibility of her coming back. But it took so long.
I still remember 1992 FO finals where I almost finished my finger nails in tension . But seles won by dint of her dogged determination level. Alas.......those days are gone . That lunatic was set free ( thanks to german law ) after sometime.
@@iamrips2132 36 GS and the greatest!!!
This was Jana's real breakthrough tournament. Up until then she'd never got past the quarters of a grand slam in singles (never really getting anywhere near getting into the semi finals), and was viewed really as a doubles player.
I think she was a lot greater than her credits indicate. For whatever reason, anxiety crept into her mind when on the thresholds for victory.
Actually Jana reached French Open semifinals in 1990.
Monica was far away too powerful for her contenders at that time...n Steffi's obsessive fan couldn't take it anymore in that fated 30th April 1993🙃😌
I think you're obsessed, dear. Get over it, 27 years ago.
1:37:54 Monica taking a moment of zen to re-calibrate
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just found out that Jana passed.RIP!
Wait is that ELP doing "Fanfare"?
Seles always have trouble playing Novotna.
Everyone had trouble playing Novotna 😂😂
@@jamesdavidkmoss that's true!!
Such a shame Jana had no personality back then. Didn't engage the crowd. While Monica just glowed
Im really for sorry for jana she was very disappointed and she's a good person then again happen at the 1993 Wimbledon choke the match vs Steffi
The Wimbledon loss was far worse than this one. Jana was no where near winning this match against Seles, despite taking the first set. She had Graf on the ropes and squandered a 4-1 lead with an opportunity to lead 5-1 and basically stopped playing. All Graf had to do was keep the ball in play. Complete meltdown and an ordeal to watch :(
If they would have been able in the past to track those lines with a computer, I wonder how many of those balls would have been in or out...
Some people constantly criticized Seles for skipping or not being more enthusiastic about Wimbledon but who would want to go to a place where you cannot be your authentic self? Grunting should have never been an issue but good thing those dumb Wimbledon traditionalists who imposed that are dead now (hopefully).
Let's now focus on the stupid "wear white" rule. Why does it have to be white and not another color? EXACTLY. Get with the times.
Also, how many of the top players skip Grand Slams now? Why isn't there criticism of that? Roger skipping French, etc. Gender issues still exist.
Plus Australia praising Margaret Court is an issue too. I get if you're a racist or bigot yourself - support her all you want. But you cannot separate player from person (character). I don't care how talented you are - if you feel any person should be better/worse, have more/fewer rights, etc. based on an individual characteristic, you are so EFFED up. If your god promotes that type of hatred, then so be it. It's a wrongful generalization but why do a significant number of people outside of Australia brand Australians as racists, etc.? We can name other sport-related figures and incidences. It will take a long time for them to get rid of that global brand but many Australians probably don't care. But great to see some Australian advocates and public figures condemning Margaret Court.
Monika Seles GOAT
A lot of what you says makes sense but remember Federer didn't skip the French without an injury until he was well into his 30s. Someone who is skipping certain events at that age will not get the same criticsm as younger players doing so. It is like Navratilova skipped the French and Australian, but not until she was in her 30s.
I agree that Wimbledon has at lot wrong with it, but I think you're getting a bit confused. Monica never had a problem with her grunting at Wimbledon until 1992. She skipped the tournament a year before that, in 1991. So much of the criticism she got for it was not that she skipped Wimbledon, but how she did it. She withdrew at the last minute, didn't say why until weeks later, refused to take any calls for weeks from the WTA who wanted to know what was wrong, then mysteriously did a very weird photo shoot for People magazine with her dressed in a disguise. She then said she was suffering from shin splints but appeared at an exhibition tournament. To make matters worse, she then showed up at the US Open wearing a t shirt with all the grand slam names on it but with Wimbledon crossed out. The perception of her back then before the stabbing, rightly or wrongly, was that she had behaved very unprofessionally and disrespectfully and was an egotistical brat who thought she was bigger than the game. A lot of rumours then circulated that she hadn't had shin splints at all, but had skipped Wimbledon to make sure that she retained the number one ranking on a certain date so that she would get a huge bonus from her contract with Yonex. Back then it was fairly easy to game the ranking system by skipping tournaments. A lot of the problem with her grunting at Wimbledon in 1992 really was in many ways a follow on from her controversial withdrawal in 1991. She had not won any friends with the way she did it, the British press really had it in for her, and a lot of the players had really come to dislike her perceived attitude. I believe that's why Tauziat and then Navratilova complained about the grunting. It was more an expression of their dislike for Monica (as she was viewed then) than anything else. It's really hard to get across just how much the perception of Monica changed after the stabbing, or how much Monica really had matured and gained perspective in her time off. She went from being the real baddy to someone who everyone loved and supported.
@@douglasbrown5671 So much of the criticism she got for it was not that she skipped Wimbledon in 1991, but how she did it. She withdrew at the last minute, didn't say why until weeks later, refused to take any calls for weeks from the WTA who wanted to know what was wrong, then mysteriously did a very weird photo shoot for People magazine with her dressed in a disguise. She then said she was suffering from shin splints but appeared at an exhibition tournament. To make matters worse, she then showed up at the US Open wearing a t shirt with all the grand slam names on it but with Wimbledon crossed out. The perception of her back then before the stabbing, rightly or wrongly, was that she had behaved very unprofessionally and disrespectfully and was an egotistical brat who thought she was bigger than the game. A lot of rumours then circulated that she hadn't had shin splints at all, but had skipped Wimbledon to make sure that she retained the number one ranking on a certain date so that she would get a huge bonus from her contract with Yonex. Back then it was fairly easy to game the ranking system by skipping tournaments. A lot of the problem with her grunting at Wimbledon in 1992 really was in many ways a follow on from her controversial withdrawal in 1991. She had not won any friends with the way she did it, the British press really had it in for her, and a lot of the players had really come to dislike her perceived attitude. I believe that's why Tauziat and then Navratilova complained about the grunting. It was more an expression of their dislike for Monica (as she was viewed then) than anything else. It's really hard to get across just how much the perception of Monica changed after the stabbing, or how much Monica really had matured and gained perspective in her time off. She went from being the real baddy to someone who everyone loved and supported.
@@th8257 Yes the stabbing and Seles become this super sympathetic figure has made a lot of people forget her bizarre and at times oft putting personality in 90 and 91, especialy. She was maturing some in 92 and 93, but there was a reason she was disliked by fans and fellow players early on, and it wasn't just that she was winning. Evert was loved by her fellow players and fans when she first began dominating. So was Federer. So was Graf for the most part. Navratilova wasn't mostly due to homophobia, which isn't something Seles had to deal with.
Monica was so ungracious to not even congratulate Jana, how rude was that?
Boo Hoo.
Did Jana congratulate Monica?! How convenient of you to not remark on that. Congrats to Monica were more due that vice versa, since she was the winner!
Horrible 3rd set by Jana. Nothing but unforced errors. Also last 2 games of the 2nd, 8 unforced errors in a row, or maybe 1 point was a forced error, but the rest all unforced.
Novotna could win this match in two sets.
Great Monica 🌷
lol lol lol
She can get too nervous and edgy, and out of nowhere. Sort of unreliable. Both brilliant players to watch. Watching 2023 women’s tennis is just a sleep aid for me. Boring.
BUT she didnt that's it.
Never did like Seles
Don't worry i made up more than double for ya bud.
Is it because you were team Graf? Afterall she was just a kid playing great tennis. Reason I ask is bc I too was diehard team Graf up to her retirement in 99 and Seles was my least favorite before Sanchez Vicario and Sabatini. The FO Final in 90 had me scratching my head: Who is this kid to take Graf in straights? But today I respect all of them for their achievements and contributions.
She had enough fans without you. You’re nobody special.
Monica had a bit of an awkward personality, but she was also really young. But She was the best female tennis player ever
It’s all right mate
You obviously have no taste 😂😂
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