Chris actually commented on the Steffi Graf Sportscentury episode that Graf was fortunate to have many more titles because Monica had been stabbed in 1993. Yet when she was commentating along with Dick Enberg and John McEnroe at the 1999 French Open for NBC, Chris was firmly in Steffi's corner once Graf won the second set against number 1 Hingis, and thrilled when she finally beat the angry, spoiled Swiss Miss 6-2 in the third. Of course Steffi had the crowd behind her, which Chris herself always had at the French Open. Hingis was booed for her bratty unsportsmanship and while Chris complimented her on her unique qualities, found it hard not to root for Graf who was solid as a rock that day and deserved the trophy. Steffi and Chris still hold more French Opens (Evert, with seven, has the record, while Graf has six) than any other women. The amazing thing is that Nadal has more than the two of them combined.
As i was reminded by another poster the other day graf beat four future or past No 1 players one after the other that wimbledon, sanchez, seles, evert and Navratilova.
Those players Steffi beat were not only future or past #1s (Serena for instance emulated that feat several times in later years against Safina and Azarenka types). No - they all also were players who at the end of their careers had played at least in 12 slam finals each!!!
whoever the opponent is very difficult to win against Graf. Steffi Graf's best condition/ her prime time is still above evert Navratilova seles Sanchez Sabatini Hingis William sisters and many more.
Steffi graf best wasn't better than Serena Williams at Wimbledon Olympics 2012! Tennis has evolved past the level played in the 80's and 90's on both tours!
@@rajusaha855 Brother I'm the biggest Venus Graf fan. But you are delusional or don't follow tennis. If you think that the level played by Graf in the 1988 final against Navratilova. Was even close to the Level Serena Williams reached at Wimbledon Olympics 2012. I watched both matches live and at the time in 1988, I said Steffi Graf was toying with Navratilova and was the highest I've ever seen a woman play at. But just like when John McEnroe beat Jimmy Connors 6/2 6/1 6/1 in the Wimbledon final of 1984. Which was the highest level I've ever seen a man play at the time. When I watched that match again recently, I said McEnroe playing at that level wouldn't stand a chance against Novak, Nadal, or Federer. The game has advanced so much from the 80's
@@rajusaha855 No it doesn't because I've never seen anything play a level above Serena Williams Wimbledon Olympics 2012. Serena Williams can Serve 127 Mph, She's also quick on her fear and can play offensive defense. I'm sure in the future someone will raise the women game above Serena Williams Olympics Wimbledon 2012. Also the level she played after that with Patrick. But I haven't seen it yet. I'm waiting to see who could achieve it. I thought Osaka could but she came and went very quickly.
@@MrBjorn6 frankly Steffi is the GOAT then it's Martina then it's big gap then Serena. Steffi was far more dominate & superior athlete than Serena ever was. Serena had its ups & down, she lacks consistency outside of slams.
Sono due tennis diversi di due generazioni diverse dai. Evert giocava al suo apice con racchette di legno colpi di fioretto. Con il cambio della tecnologia Graf ha usufruito della potenza nelle racchette nuove. Tant’è che appena la Graf è diventata maggiorenne non ha più praticamente perso.
Great match. Steffi was unbeatable at her best. Both Chris and Martina should be lucky Graf wasn't born a decade earlier. Otherwise there would never have been an Evert/ Navratilova Era. Boy, could Graf (which stands for power in German) whack that forehand. This was also the last match that Chris would ever play in Singles on Centre Court, which she lost to the eventual champion.
@@tobiasisback4605Martina never won the Calendar Grand Slam and lost at the 1983 French and at the 1984 Australian Opens to players who never won a single great title. Steffi beat Martina four times in Grand Slam finals. Granted, she lost many U.S. Opens to Martina and only beat her once there, but most of those matches were not finals. Also, Martina could have stopped Steffi from winning at the 1988 Open in New York, but she lost to Zina Garrison, who then lost to Sabatini, who lost to Graf in the final. Steffi ended up winning in three sets and accomplished something BJK, Evert, Martina, Seles, Hingis, and Serena did not. I will admit that Hingis should have won the Slam in 1997, but she didn't have to play Graf, so this made things easier.
@@mc7477 First of all, Martina won 6 slams in a row which is a rarer and more difficult feat than a calendar slam. She was holder of all 4 slams in singles and doubles simultaneously, an all-time record. Navratilova never lost in the first round of a slam, unlike Graf. Graf lost in the first round of Wimbledon as #1 seed, to Lori McNeil, and lost in straight sets to Amanda Coetzer at FO and AO, when Coetzer wasn’t even top 10 😂. Losing to players who were 0-16 combined h2h against Navratilova and who never won a major title! Next?
Martina lost in the first round of the U.S. Open in 1973 and 1976, and at Wimbledon in 1974. But this was before she was great. Steffi only did this twice, and Amanda Coetzer and Lori McNeil were unseeded players who should have been seeded. When McNeil beat Graf at the Big W in 1994, the establishment at Wimbledon didn’t want Steffi to win four in a row and gave her a tough opponent who went all the way to the semis, when she lost to the eventual champion, who beat the great Navratilova. Even when Martina beat the teenage Steffi at both the 1987 U. S. open and Wimbledon, after Steffi won the French, Graf was still named #1 over Martina. I will admit that Martina was probably the greatest woman athlete of the last century aside from Babe Zaharius, but neither she nor Chris Evert ever had to face such tough first round opponents at any Slam when they were defending champions. Because of the Seles stabbing and because neither Sabatini, Capriati, Seles, nor Sanchez could beat Graf at Wimbledon, and because she beat Evert the last eight matches they played, there is a wing of tennis experts who downgrade Steffi as overrated when this prize should go to Hingis or Capriati. Both Peter Bodo and Pulitzer Prize winner Frank Deford predicted Sabatini and Mary Jo Fernandez would be the heirs to Evert and Navratilova in 1985. When it turned out to be Fraulein Forehand instead, they nursed sour grapes and poured scorn on Graf’s accomplishments especially after the Seles stabbing in 1993. Steffi won Wimbledon and the U.S Open in the same year five times, and won the French, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open in the same year four times. She is the only player of either sex to win each Slam title at least four times. And she is the only player of either sex aside from Mo Connolly to win all four major titles before the age of twenty. Even Navratilova can’t match any of that.
@@mc7477 Martina never lost in the first round of a slam when she was #1 seed, only when she was 16 or so and new to the tour. So no equivalence there. ‘The establishment didn’t want Graf to win 4 Wimbledons in a row' so they gave her a tough (unseeded) first round player? That sounds like frank paranoia. Martina won 6 Wimbledons in a row anyway and was not particularly popular at the time!
Chris recently paid Steffi a very gracious compliment, saying her achievements have been under appreciated. Both extraordinary champions.
Did Evert say his own achievements were unappreciated?
Graf graciously conceded that Navratilova was GOAT and had made a mark on the sport like no other.
@@tobiasisback4605Seles was beaten 6-0,6-0 by anybody
@@tobiasisback4605Navratilova was beaten 6-0,6-0 by Evert
Chris actually commented on the Steffi Graf Sportscentury episode that Graf was fortunate to have many more titles because Monica had been stabbed in 1993. Yet when she was commentating along with Dick Enberg and John McEnroe at the 1999 French Open for NBC, Chris was firmly in Steffi's corner once Graf won the second set against number 1 Hingis, and thrilled when she finally beat the angry, spoiled Swiss Miss 6-2 in the third. Of course Steffi had the crowd behind her, which Chris herself always had at the French Open. Hingis was booed for her bratty unsportsmanship and while Chris complimented her on her unique qualities, found it hard not to root for Graf who was solid as a rock that day and deserved the trophy. Steffi and Chris still hold more French Opens (Evert, with seven, has the record, while Graf has six) than any other women. The amazing thing is that Nadal has more than the two of them combined.
Andy Mill wasn't the only one crying that Wimbledon!
Thank you so much Kev .
As i was reminded by another poster the other day graf beat four future or past No 1 players one after the other that wimbledon, sanchez, seles, evert and Navratilova.
Those players Steffi beat were not only future or past #1s (Serena for instance emulated that feat several times in later years against Safina and Azarenka types).
No - they all also were players who at the end of their careers had played at least in 12 slam finals each!!!
whoever the opponent is very difficult to win against Graf. Steffi Graf's best condition/ her prime time is still above evert Navratilova seles Sanchez Sabatini Hingis William sisters and many more.
Steffi graf best wasn't better than Serena Williams at Wimbledon Olympics 2012! Tennis has evolved past the level played in the 80's and 90's on both tours!
@@MrBjorn6 Tennis racquets and strings evolved.
Surfaces and balls have changed too.
@@rajusaha855 Brother I'm the biggest Venus Graf fan. But you are delusional or don't follow tennis. If you think that the level played by Graf in the 1988 final against Navratilova. Was even close to the Level Serena Williams reached at Wimbledon Olympics 2012. I watched both matches live and at the time in 1988, I said Steffi Graf was toying with Navratilova and was the highest I've ever seen a woman play at.
But just like when John McEnroe beat Jimmy Connors 6/2 6/1 6/1 in the Wimbledon final of 1984. Which was the highest level I've ever seen a man play at the time.
When I watched that match again recently, I said McEnroe playing at that level wouldn't stand a chance against Novak, Nadal, or Federer. The game has advanced so much from the 80's
@@rajusaha855 No it doesn't because I've never seen anything play a level above Serena Williams Wimbledon Olympics 2012. Serena Williams can Serve 127 Mph, She's also quick on her fear and can play offensive defense. I'm sure in the future someone will raise the women game above Serena Williams Olympics Wimbledon 2012. Also the level she played after that with Patrick. But I haven't seen it yet. I'm waiting to see who could achieve it. I thought Osaka could but she came and went very quickly.
@@MrBjorn6 frankly Steffi is the GOAT then it's Martina then it's big gap then Serena. Steffi was far more dominate & superior athlete than Serena ever was. Serena had its ups & down, she lacks consistency outside of slams.
Sono due tennis diversi di due generazioni diverse dai. Evert giocava al suo apice con racchette di legno colpi di fioretto. Con il cambio della tecnologia Graf ha usufruito della potenza nelle racchette nuove. Tant’è che appena la Graf è diventata maggiorenne non ha più praticamente perso.
Remember this. Graf rushed of the court without giving Chris Evert the full opportunity to say farewell. It was quite disgraceful.
It looks like they left the court at the same time. Chris just chose not to pause and wave goodbye, which she could have.
Great match. Steffi was unbeatable at her best. Both Chris and Martina should be lucky Graf wasn't born a decade earlier. Otherwise there would never have been an Evert/ Navratilova Era. Boy, could Graf (which stands for power in German) whack that forehand. This was also the last match that Chris would ever play in Singles on Centre Court, which she lost to the eventual champion.
Martina at her peak (82-86) was better than Graf.
@@tobiasisback4605Martina never won the Calendar Grand Slam and lost at the 1983 French and at the 1984 Australian Opens to players who never won a single great title. Steffi beat Martina four times in Grand Slam finals. Granted, she lost many U.S. Opens to Martina and only beat her once there, but most of those matches were not finals. Also, Martina could have stopped Steffi from winning at the 1988 Open in New York, but she lost to Zina Garrison, who then lost to Sabatini, who lost to Graf in the final. Steffi ended up winning in three sets and accomplished something BJK, Evert, Martina, Seles, Hingis, and Serena did not. I will admit that Hingis should have won the Slam in 1997, but she didn't have to play Graf, so this made things easier.
@@mc7477 First of all, Martina won 6 slams in a row which is a rarer and more difficult feat than a calendar slam. She was holder of all 4 slams in singles and doubles simultaneously, an all-time record. Navratilova never lost in the first round of a slam, unlike Graf. Graf lost in the first round of Wimbledon as #1 seed, to Lori McNeil, and lost in straight sets to Amanda Coetzer at FO and AO, when Coetzer wasn’t even top 10 😂. Losing to players who were 0-16 combined h2h against Navratilova and who never won a major title! Next?
Martina lost in the first round of the U.S. Open in 1973 and 1976, and at Wimbledon in 1974. But this was before she was great. Steffi only did this twice, and Amanda Coetzer and Lori McNeil were unseeded players who should have been seeded. When McNeil beat Graf at the Big W in 1994, the establishment at Wimbledon didn’t want Steffi to win four in a row and gave her a tough opponent who went all the way to the semis, when she lost to the eventual champion, who beat the great Navratilova. Even when Martina beat the teenage Steffi at both the 1987 U. S. open and Wimbledon, after Steffi won the French, Graf was still named #1 over Martina. I will admit that Martina was probably the greatest woman athlete of the last century aside from Babe Zaharius, but neither she nor Chris Evert ever had to face such tough first round opponents at any Slam when they were defending champions. Because of the Seles stabbing and because neither Sabatini, Capriati, Seles, nor Sanchez could beat Graf at Wimbledon, and because she beat Evert the last eight matches they played, there is a wing of tennis experts who downgrade Steffi as overrated when this prize should go to Hingis or Capriati. Both Peter Bodo and Pulitzer Prize winner Frank Deford predicted Sabatini and Mary Jo Fernandez would be the heirs to Evert and Navratilova in 1985. When it turned out to be Fraulein Forehand instead, they nursed sour grapes and poured scorn on Graf’s accomplishments especially after the Seles stabbing in 1993. Steffi won Wimbledon and the U.S Open in the same year five times, and won the French, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open in the same year four times. She is the only player of either sex to win each Slam title at least four times. And she is the only player of either sex aside from Mo Connolly to win all four major titles before the age of twenty. Even Navratilova can’t match any of that.
@@mc7477 Martina never lost in the first round of a slam when she was #1 seed, only when she was 16 or so and new to the tour. So no equivalence there. ‘The establishment didn’t want Graf to win 4 Wimbledons in a row' so they gave her a tough (unseeded) first round player? That sounds like frank paranoia. Martina won 6 Wimbledons in a row anyway and was not particularly popular at the time!
What's with the pathetic commentary and annoying background music? This isn't some trashy Hollywood movie of a biblical story.