Monica Seles vs Martina Navratilova Extended Highlights | 1991 US Open Final
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- Watch the extended highlights between Monica Seles and Martina Navratilova in the final of the 1991 US Open.
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Monica showing the world just how good the game of tennis can be played!
Steffi had shown us that in her Wimbledon 88 & 89 finals against a 2 and 3 years younger Martina.
And she did it again in 92 in the Wimbledon 92 final when she destroyed Seles with 62 61.
Seles never came even close to that high level!
she was unbelievable before she was attacked.
In 1991 Seles had a 74-6 win/loss record.
Which was the worst win/loss record for a #1 player since Evert in 1982.
And she even went 0-2 win/loss against the then #2 player, Steffi Graf.
@@carrerau7138 Every time someone says something good about Seles you reply with a really annoying pro-Graf shade on Monica. Seles was quite amazing before she got stabbed because she was so young and had won so many slams already and that fact has nothing to do with Graf and takes nothing away from Graf's achievements. Grafanatics are so annoying!
Monica, simply the best ever
In what, you sad clown?
Hate it when they don't show the score in these summaries and even upon winning!
it's moronic
Monica had very underrated movement back then and great anticipation. Too bad her second career was hindered by a significant decline in her athleticism. It’s like we didn’t realize how strong that aspect of her game was until she didn’t have it anymore.
She gained so much weight because of her bulimia. That was the problem. The groundxstrokes were as good as ever, but the quickness and the endurance were not there.
Fat tends to take away athleticism.
Seles won 3 out of 4 Grand Slams in 1991 and was just 17 years old. Unbelievable. Nobody will ever achieve something like that. Monica the best ever 🔥
Such a shame that Martina was so exhausted from her previous couple of matches. She said after the match "Monica saved her best tennis for the final and I think I left mine in the semi final against Steffi".
She'd have still lost
@@gedshepherd3106 Yep and Monica is to my mind one of the top 3 women players to have played the game.
@@gedshepherd3106 Maybe - worth noting that Martina had won their last match on hardcourts earlier that year 6-2, 7-6 and would also go on to win their next match on hard courts 6-4, 6-2. But whatever the result, it should have been a much closer, more entertaining match than it was. A lot of their matches were really electric with some amazing tennis, no matter who won. We were really robbed of that. After such amazing semi finals, this was a massive anti-climax.
Both coming from marathon semis just the day before.
Keep in mind Martina played the first semi in taking out Steffi, and even tho it went three sets, the points were short.
Monica's famous match against Capriati had rallies lasting over 30 strokes, finished just before dark.
She only had about 18 hours to recover.
But when you're 17 (Monica) vs. 35 (Martina), who do you think had an easier time recovering ?
Martina didn't play badly, Monica was just too good.
Mónica Seles & Martina Súper players 🤩🤩
Both Evert and Navratilova believe Seles could have been the GOAT, and graf benefited from her stabbing.
Evert and Navratilova both agreed that Seles would have been the GOAT...Graf knows that too.
It's very likely.
@@jansnauwaert1785 Agreed.
for sure. She was a killer.
I don't think Steffi really cares. Tennis is a very long way behind her and she's not very interested in getting involved. She has her family now.
oh yes. Graf would never have won as much as she did had Seles been there in full force.
I loved watching these two play. Monica was too good on this day but they had some great clashes. Martina had a 7-10 lifetime record against Seles -- quite respectable despite being past her prime.
7-13
@@juanantoniobl7550 incorrect 7-10 as Michael J originally sent!
@@camgig9995 But two of those wins by Martina came when Monica was 15, and one only two months after she turned 16. Martina's level of play , even at 34, was still very close to her prime. Monica is only 17 in this match, still improving.
Keep in mind both players had marathon matches just the day before.
Martina played the first semi taking out Steffi, and even tho it went three sets, the points were short.
Monica's famous match against Capriati had rallies lasting 30-40 strokes, finished just before dark.
She only had about 18 hours to recover.
But when you're 17 (Monica) vs. 35 (Martina), who do you think had an easier time recovering ?
The points were a much quicker pace and hugely energy draining in the Navratilova Graf match - a series of very intense sprints. The match went over 2 hours. Also, Martina had also tough three setters in the fourth round against Manuela Maleeva (who'd beaten Martina the year before) and then against Arantxa Sanchez Viacrio in the quarter finals, who came within 2 points of winning after two long tiebreak sets in the first two sets. Monica had much the easier path to the final and as you rightly say, much harder for the older Navratilova to recover.
They both had tough semifinal matches. Monica’s match with Jennifer was definitely the more mentally and physically draining of the two though. They were both teenage phenoms with so much to prove even off the court. Steffi and Martina had been doing this for years, so it was quite routine for them. 35 really isn’t that old, and Martina was in great shape. Honestly, I’m surprised Monica was able to come out on this day and be at the top of her game after her truly epic semifinal. Challenging for both women though to be sure.
@@Ricky-mo6mv in the era where most top athletes retired at late 20s/early 30s, 35 was really old. Her contemporaries by this point were retired or shadow of themselves.
Just imagine what Monica would have achieved if she hadn't been stabbed by that crazy idiot about 1 year after this match. She had won 8 Grand Slam titles before the age of 20 and there's no doubt in my mind she would have well over 20 had that tragedy not happened. Maybe even more than Serena. Great memories of watching these great champions and its incredible how quickly time flies.
so true; I think about that every time I watch one of these videos featuring Monica
she won 8 by the age of 18
She won her 8th title in Australia in 1993, at the age of 19 years, one month, but still...it was amazing @@archangelmusic13
The sad thing is that we'll never know. There were a lot of things though counting against Monica achieving that, and it's possible that her career may have tailed off like Martina Hingis's did. Firstly, Monica's dad's illness massively affected her, I think more than the stabbing. That would have happened in any event. Secondly, Monica has talked at length in her books about how even before the stabbing she was having real problems coping with the stress of the tour. She said her eating disorder started many years earlier when she was still at the Bollettieri academy as a means to cope with the loneliness of it all. As early as 1991 a lot of commentary was made about her weight and she said that she was 'addicted to butter'.
The next factor is illness and injury. Monica was always somewhat fragile and it's possible that the injuries that drove her out of the game may have started earlier. If we look at the 12 months leading up to the stabbing, there were some signs that all was not 100% well. Monica had a title drought from June 1992 to September 1992. A period of 14 weeks that was the longest title drought for any world #1 since Martina Navratilova had lost the #1 ranking in 1987. In early 1993, Monica took what was then the longest ever absence from the tour for a world #1, not playing from February 1993 until late April 1993. Hamburg was her first tournament back. The result of all that was that in the 12 months leading up to the stabbing, Monica won 7 tournaments (of course three of them grand slams) whereas Steffi had won 9 plus the Fed Cup. It's the main reason why Steffi got the #1 ranking back so quickly - she was very close to Monica in the rankings anyway.
Finally, there's just no way that any player can keep going years after year winning so many slams. Each player who's had a run like Monica did has then had a big dip. We've seen it with Steffi, Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Serena. You name it. I suspect Monica would have had a similar dip, and by the time she got out of it she would have been facing a new generation of incredibly tough players in the later 1990s (all of whom she ended up with a losing head to head with) such as Hingis, Davenport, and the Williams Sisters. I just cannot see her dominating the tour against all those players like she did in the early 90s.
@@th8257 nobody is reading all of that.counting her losses to inferior players after the stabbing like losing to sanchez vicario, a player she dominated before the stabbing only proves seles wasnt the same player when she came back.and not an indication of what she would have done if she hadnt been stabbed.the fact sanchez could beat serena on clay says it all about how monica would have been a much better player to beat them had she not been stabbed.
Martina said that Seles would eventually get all of her records and be the GOAT and the Seles stabbing was the only thing to stop that. Martina was always honest and gracious. Seles had a game nobody had and that included men's. She could hit angle winners from nearly anywhere on court. She destroyed Graf before the stabbing and that was the motivation of her assailant. To stop Seles from destroying his obsessed over tennis star. I've been watching tennis for a long long time and I have never seen a better WTA player. When she was on, she was unplayable. She was the most talented WTA player I've ever seen.
That is your opinion. I would not agree with it.
I agree. The deranged German got what he wanted and wasn't even punished. It was beautiful to see Graf and Seles play against each other. I think Stefi would have continued to take Wimbledon and Monica the other 3 Grand Slams for 3 or 4 more years until Hingis arrived. Monica would had 16 or 17 Slams and Stefi maybe 14 or 15. Or maybe even. Watching Henin and Seles play is glorious. What Serena did in her 30s was unbelievable.
I agree 100 %!Monica was blessed to be the greatest champ ever,but it didn't happen...Neverthless players like Seles,Navratilova,Borg,Connors will never be forgotten!!!
@@mikebatlinh6650 smh dude, you ain't got a clue. Really smh. He said that's what Navratilova said and you think you know better than her. Oh dude.🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Wally Friend - Thanks for sharing what Martina said. . I totally agree with her. Younger people have no idea how good Salas was. She won 8 Majors before she was 20 years old. Think about that. Then the stabbing occurs and she was never the same after that. No way Graf would have had 22 Majors if they would have been able to continue their great rivalry. Monica would have won many more.
I remember this match like it was yesterday.
What Martina played, that is tennis.
Thanks to players like Seles, serve and volleyers had to adapt and develop a game from the baseline. Now its all about powerful groundstrokes
Uma das minhas ídolos do tênis!além de que eu também bato com as duas mãos
Monica relentless focus and intensity eventually wore her opponents down. Her anticipation is the best. In the 90s, Martina finally wore Steffi down. She knew how to play Steffi already. With Monica, she knew she couldn't take her eyes off when she is at net and she hit a less powerful shot, there will be consequences
While I appreciate seeing these two great players in action, I wish that the editor would have taken some more time to let us know what the score was at various points. The beauty of the play is there; the drama of the match is not. The first time that you hear the score in this video is at 7-6, 4-1!
If Monica is not stabbed, I think the longest streak of no. 1 would have stretched to 1999 at least.
Both players are great in this final. Martina, yes, was "past her prime," but even with that, she was contending for grand slam titles until she retired from Singles and then won doubles titles into her 40s. This could be a textbook match of baseline vs. serve and volley tennis. I, too, wonder what would have happened had that lunatic not stabbed Monica. If she and Graf (and Navratilova) had been able to continue the rivalry that gave air to women's tennis at the time and without it, caused a Graf dominance that was unmatched. What if...
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It is really a pity that in these highlights we can't see more of Seles winners. The match was full of them. This looks like Martina won the match. 😅
Two left hands
what's wonderful about these matches is that both women are always trying to create and construct winning points. Always trying to make something happen. No shade to Wozniacki but they both would have destroyed her
Had sales not been stabbed 1993 in Germany.... she would have more slams to her name. ... therefore Graf wouldn't be at 23 slams to her tally count
I do not see Steffi would dominate because Steffi lost to Sabatini, Sanchez and Navratilova more than Seles lost.
I ll go with
1. MONICA SELES
2. MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
3. STEFFI GRAF
Serve and volleying must have felt like suicide against Seles. It was probably the worst thing to do against her when she was in her prime. There just wasn't the time to get the racket and the legs set up.
When Seles was in her prime in 1991-93 she lost FOUR times against a 34/37-year-old Navratilova, the best S&V player ever.
😂
Can you imagine what Martina of 1982-89 would have done with Monica??
Still hate Seles double handed style. Looks (and sounds) awful.
Good thing tennis isnt a beauty pagent.
I’m sure seles is very hurt that you hate her style of play.
@@theroadrunnerjarhead4109 Haha!
Certain people love ugliness.
Says a lot about them.
I think Seles is the most overrated player of the open era.
Won her slams against zero competition.