Thanks for the trip down memory lane! The Golden era of tennis. Wish we could have the same variety, personalities, and personalness that era had. The ball boy shaking hands with Tracy at the end was cool. Nowadays everything is so robotic and orchestrated.
That's cuz nowadays everything in tennis is "incorporated", that is, run by sports management companies like IMG and corporations and sponsors. And tennis players are "brainwashed" by their agents and coaches on the right things to say and especially what NOT to say to the media and on the tennis court. That's why everything seems robotic about tennis now. It's a multi-BILLION industry. The players have become puppets by the powers that be behind them and around them.
I remember watching so many matches called by Tony Trabert and Pat Summerall. Sadly, both are gone now. Thankfully, Tracy and Martina are still with us. Tracy's son Brandon played the USO in 2024....exactly 45 years after his mom's first win.
If Tracy hadn't had physical issues, she would have vied for being one of the greatest,she was able to beat Chris and Martina in the same tournament, which after she left the tour became rare to almost impossible, it would have been a three way battle for slams/ titles.
I doubt that. Certainly she might have remained a dangerous competitive force but there were technical and mental difficulties with her game along with the physical issues. Her stroke-production, although strong and consistent, was very stiff (which must have added to the physical breakdown.) Her movement-the scampering, the rigidity of position-also worked against her body in the long-run. Her Grand Slam record was spotty, as well, outside the US Open. In her prime years she lost a lot of unexpected matches to lesser-ranked players. Whatever the case, she did get physically healthy again, trained hard with Fred Stolle in Australia in late 1983, switched to a graphite racquet, and returned in early 1984 and simply lacked the old fire. She struggled to beat journeywomen-something that players like Navratilova, Evert, or Mandlikova would never have endured even after extended breaks from competition. Austin seemed to want a normal young woman’s life (boyfriends, social activities) and the intensity had vanished from her game. Much the same occurred in a few subsequent comeback attempts in 1988 and, amazingly, 1993. She never again reached even a quarterfinal at a regular tour event and struggled against journeywomen. Her best results (in the 1993 season-after a terrible car accident in 1989!) only lifted her to No. 74 in the rankings and she retired forever in 1984, admitting that she just didn’t “have the same competitive spark” of her phenom years. That being said, her phenom years were phenomenal and she is deservedly in the Hall of Fame. I think a number of factors contributed to the physical and mental burnout that affected her longterm chances. By 1984 the game had passed her by, but this was already becoming evident in 1982-1983, her last stretch of fairly steady participation on the circuit.
@@jonathankieranwriter Good observation. Even before her comeback, her last full year on the tour -- 1982 -- was lackluster. 3-set Qtrs losses to Mandlikova at the French and U.S., and an emotional win for Billie Jean King at Wimbledon. Despite owning a one-win lead in her head to head against Evert, Chris's smackdown win 6-0 6-0 over Tracy at the year-end Toyota Championships must have felt satisfying for the Floridian.
If if if wah wah wah... If Seles wasn't stabbed. If Davenport lost her weight earlier, if Hingis didn't have her ankle injury, if Venus didn't have her disease, if if if wah wah wah
Don't really think so. I don't think she could have kept up even in great health as both Martina and Chris elevated their games to compete with each other. Tracy was really just a minor blip for either of them in bigger scheme of things. We saw that with several players of the era that end just couldn't keep up with either of them.
At the end Tracy says that may be the crowd will be for her against Chris because Chris has won 4 x in a row.. in a special look back at open the 20218 Tracy says she was unaware of the fact that Chris was going for a fifth title in a row, was unaware of how many times Chris had won , didn’t understand the status that winning the open really was, treated it without pressure since it was her first slam final.. Tracy clearly patterned her game after Chris yet never gave Chris any sense of respect. Even when she won never mentioned Chris . When Chris spoke she said Tracy was too tough that day when in actuality Chris was passive , just attempting to play steady without heat on her ground strokes almost afraid to play because she feared losing to a younger version of herself , her game. Chris fed Tracy the perfect ball in Tracy’s strike zone. Chris was so nervous and tentative . When Chris heard at her hotel the score of this match she said “ Tracy has no nerves” . Instead of attacking the ball as she had in clairol crown match which she whipped Tracy earlier in the year she was hoping Tracy would be nervous and Chris felt the nerves. Up 4-3 serving at30-15 blew an overhead sitter , blasting it an inch wide. She never recovered losing 6 straight games to 6-4,3-0. Three of those games Chris led 40-0,40-15. Down 5-2 Chris got mad and got it back to Tracy serving at 5-3 15-40 Chris returned Tracy’s serve with a forehand that she reached for without moving her feet and the ball went to bottom of the net. Then Tracy hit a great up the line winner for deuce.Chris folded on MP returning a weak serve in to bottom of the net. Only match Chris played poorly due to nerves. Chris came back the next year and figured out the way to beat her, by moving Tracy up and back instead of right to left . When Chris dictated the point she won 90 percent of the points taking 16 of the last 20 games 4-6, 6-1,6-1. Here Martina’s nerves wee shot playing with the fear of losing to a 16 yr old girl with a 60 MPH serve but a human backboard.
Navratilova n'a pas eu trop d'occasions pour imposer au filet car Austin a bien géré les échanges, à seulement 16 ans cette dernière était preuve d'une maturité incroyable
This is great footage of a classic match. Of course Martina was the favorite to win the match. But Tracy was consistent, and effective. You can see how irritated Martina would get, and the next thing you know, Tracy wins.
John Lloyd once said that Tracy Austin had the best groundstrokes of the 1970s. I think that's probably true. While she lacked Chris Evert's court craft that she'd learned growing up on clay (Chris was much more comfortable and skilled at using drop shots and lobs to break up her opponent's game), Tracy's groundstrokes, particularly the forehand, were technically better.
Ya if you hit the ball deep and right to her which is Tracy’s strike zone . In 1980 Goolagong mixed things I and so did Chris In the open semis and tracy lost both matches when made to adjust to adjust . Also she grew taller and never seemed to find that center of gravity again on a consistent basis . Tracy’s last match vs Chris she lost 6-,6-0 And lost her last match to Martina 5-7,6-2,6-1.
Martina Navratilova must have been really sick of the sight of teenagers on this court. She lost to Pam Shriver in 1978, Tracy Austin here in 1979 and then again in 1981, very nearly lost to Steffi Graf in 1986, Monica Seles in 1991 and Magdalena Maleeva in 1992.
But this is hardly Navratilova's best. Her best single season didn't come for many years, 1983, when she went 86-1 for the entire YEAR, an all-time record for women or men (only loss was to Kathleen Horvath in the 4R of the French). And Martina's most physical prowess/hardest hitting probably didn't happen until the early 1990s (watch highlights of her 91 US Open SF win over Graf and of her wins over Seles, even late in Martina's career). IMO, Martina is the GOAT and was the best athlete women's tennis has ever seen. Not even Serena could ever volley or dive for balls like Martina, and a plethora of times, Martina won BOTH singles and doubles at the same event, a few times even winning all THREE events she entered at the Majors (phenomenal), while most other players (then and now) get tired from only singles and fade in other events.
What the hell are you even talking about !!! So tired of these stupid comments, this is 1979, not the mid 2000's . Furthermore the talentless ball bashing of Sharapova wouldn't have gotten her anywhere in this era with the wood rackets. You had to have some skill, to hit the ball with wood !!
Watch her 1991 US open win over Graf, all out attacking from Navratilova ,unbelievable speed and quality shotmaking,so much variety, so many winners, for sure Sharapova would have beaten in straight sets
give Sharapova a wood racquet and lets see who wins, give any player now this equipment and see how they play, thats the reality check. - these players were incredible with these small wood racquets
Tracy played with the lack of nerves that comes with age. One of the best matches Tracy played, so consistent and smart. Martina seems scared almost and I can see why, she knows that Tracy never gives in. . Martina should’ve played the ball and not the reputation of Tracy which was gaining due to Tracy’s eArlier wins for first time. Over Evert. The second win for Tracy was her ending Chrissie’s 125 clay court streak. ESrlier in spring. One could sense the momentum although Chris beat her at Mahaw the tourney before this open in 3 sets.
I didn’t like Tracy‘s game, for the reason she didn’t have one. After she was in Chris’s head for a time, Chris turned it around and never lost her again running Tracy around like a ragdoll beating her so badly towards the end she had to retire. Chrissy had the best grand strokes in all of tennis and the best mental head. If she hadn’t run into Navratilova so much, she would be well north of 25 slams
Completely agree with you about Chrissie! Tracy was trying to BE another Chris and she couldn't. Evert's overall game and stroke production much greater than Tracy. Yes Chrissie would probably be the most Slams if Team Tennis and her skipping several of the slams hadn't come about. I have her a close second to Martina for the GOAT with Steffi third and maybe Serena fourth or fifth.
Yeah it was actually kinda strange how Tracy got into her head. But in in hindsight that was all very short lived. Tracy was a minor blip for both Chris and Martina that went on to much bigger things.
This match was almost exactly the same as their 81 final. Here Martina is getting distracted and agitated by the smallest things. In their 81 rematch Martina was let down by her forehead volley late in the second set and she started to lose confidence in her game onwards. Both matches Tracy as cool as a cucumber 🥒 and that's why she won
I babysat Tracy one day back in 1970 when her mom Jeanie and my sister (who was married to Tracy's coach Rob Lansdorp) went shopping together when I was staying with Rob and my sister.
Much harder to do that with wooden racquets. Interesting though that Martina was reluctant to run round and hit forehands more in the rest of her career. Her forehand was always prone to breaking down and I think she was just more comfortable hitting slice backhand approaches. Also, as good Martina's movement was, I'm not sure her footwork was of the very highest class. When you did see her run round to hit a forehand, she often looked a little clumsy doing it.
@@zeddeka true, likewise i always thought why didn't chris evert with her accuracy nail for winners on returns of austin's very weak second serve, but i guess the limitations of wood and evert not yet being at her best athletic, strongest, fittest stage of the mid 80's couldn't do this either... NO DOUBT though that both martina and chris would have ate up both 1st and 2nd serve s of austin as they both improved leaps and bounds from 1983 onward, not sure austin's serve could have improved by leaps and bounds though..
According to Martinas 2nd wife she hated Tracy and disliked Chris enough the ask the WTA to check stats, number of title for accuracy and called Chris crude names in private. This is all in a deposition Martina was made to testify. I hate Martina now more than ever.
Maybe so, in the heat of competition when younger I could make crude remarks and say cruel things about my tennis friends - it was petty and wrong, we are all human. Sometimes we have to charge ourselves up to beat our opponents - even friends. Martina could act very cocky on the court in the 80's when she was #1 - but it worked for her. BTW - BJK was Martina's first girlfriend, which wasn't made public waaaay back in the mid-70s
@@lenwelch2195 Ah, the "Nancy Lieberman" period. Lieberman did a real brainwash job on Martina, teaching her to "hate" Evert. In private, Navratilova was actually quite gullible. Once Lieberman exited Martina's circle, Navratilova's friendship with Evert resumed.
I feel exactly the opposite. Old tennis is waaaaaaaaay more interesting to watch-- craftier and more fulfilling. Now everyone plays *exactly* the same style, it's all power and no strategy, and it just puts me to sleep. I can't even watch current tennis. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
TracyAustin looks like a schoolgirl here... nowadays she is so made-up...the world was so simple in the 70s and 80s... and so many people of those days have updated themselves/their appearances to the present day looks :-(
This matched seemed staged in some way. I can’t believe how poorly Navratilova played against such weak looking shots. Makes me wonder if other notable events had also been staged at the US Open, such as the notorious “coaching violation” that rattled Serena on her way to winning a record Grand Slam in 2019, or the “foot fault” call against her at a crucial stage of the match, and the allegation that Serena said she’d “k*ll” that lines person in 2009. Not sure if Djokovic hit the lines person by accident or not in 2020. Alize Cornet was penalized for changing her outfit on court. Raducanu was the inevitable last year. Going to be sure to stay tuned to see what happens this year. Hey I guess the alleged tactics mentioned work pretty well 😜
This match looked atrocious, martina looks awful . in the final evert looked awful . in fact , in the every v Graff match on RUclips from 89 ,evert at 34 yrs old looks1000%'better than she did at 24 in the final
Let's not get into baseless conspiracy theories here. Martina was a mess in general during that period before she got really serious and went on to dominate the sport.
Tracy is sweet but I can’t see this match as genuine. I’m wondering if some kind of mind game was done behind the scenes to rattle Navratilova, who played so gently like she was hitting with a child, in other words, awful. If this was a real match. Or maybe there was some kind of deal made behind the scenes to have a nice, “All American,” but apparently mediocre player win a grand slam against all odds, which would make a sensational story. Who knows? In any event, the points were extremely low quality here, and Navratilova has been seen to do magnitudes better in other matches.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! The Golden era of tennis. Wish we could have the same variety, personalities, and personalness that era had. The ball boy shaking hands with Tracy at the end was cool. Nowadays everything is so robotic and orchestrated.
That's cuz nowadays everything in tennis is "incorporated", that is, run by sports management companies like IMG and corporations and sponsors.
And tennis players are "brainwashed" by their agents and coaches on the right things to say and especially what NOT to say to the media and on the tennis court.
That's why everything seems robotic about tennis now.
It's a multi-BILLION industry.
The players have become puppets by the powers that be behind them and around them.
Do you realize how slow they are hitting ?
Those umpire calls were hilarious! lol
That’s what I thought as well, is she telling score or is she singing 😂😂😂
She must be a good singer
I remember watching so many matches called by Tony Trabert and Pat Summerall. Sadly, both are gone now. Thankfully, Tracy and Martina are still with us. Tracy's son Brandon played the USO in 2024....exactly 45 years after his mom's first win.
Who’s the lady umpire delivering the score in Gregorian Chant?
Ohh dearrr..
If Tracy hadn't had physical issues, she would have vied for being one of the greatest,she was able to beat Chris and Martina in the same tournament, which after she left the tour became rare to almost impossible, it would have been a three way battle for slams/ titles.
I doubt that. Certainly she might have remained a dangerous competitive force but there were technical and mental difficulties with her game along with the physical issues. Her stroke-production, although strong and consistent, was very stiff (which must have added to the physical breakdown.) Her movement-the scampering, the rigidity of position-also worked against her body in the long-run. Her Grand Slam record was spotty, as well, outside the US Open. In her prime years she lost a lot of unexpected matches to lesser-ranked players.
Whatever the case, she did get physically healthy again, trained hard with Fred Stolle in Australia in late 1983, switched to a graphite racquet, and returned in early 1984 and simply lacked the old fire. She struggled to beat journeywomen-something that players like Navratilova, Evert, or Mandlikova would never have endured even after extended breaks from competition. Austin seemed to want a normal young woman’s life (boyfriends, social activities) and the intensity had vanished from her game. Much the same occurred in a few subsequent comeback attempts in 1988 and, amazingly, 1993. She never again reached even a quarterfinal at a regular tour event and struggled against journeywomen. Her best results (in the 1993 season-after a terrible car accident in 1989!) only lifted her to No. 74 in the rankings and she retired forever in 1984, admitting that she just didn’t “have the same competitive spark” of her phenom years.
That being said, her phenom years were phenomenal and she is deservedly in the Hall of Fame. I think a number of factors contributed to the physical and mental burnout that affected her longterm chances. By 1984 the game had passed her by, but this was already becoming evident in 1982-1983, her last stretch of fairly steady participation on the circuit.
@@jonathankieranwriter Well,we'll truly never know one way or the other
@@jonathankieranwriter Good observation. Even before her comeback, her last full year on the tour -- 1982 -- was lackluster.
3-set Qtrs losses to Mandlikova at the French and U.S., and an emotional win for Billie Jean King at Wimbledon.
Despite owning a one-win lead in her head to head against Evert, Chris's smackdown win 6-0 6-0 over Tracy at the year-end Toyota Championships must have felt satisfying for the Floridian.
If if if wah wah wah... If Seles wasn't stabbed. If Davenport lost her weight earlier, if Hingis didn't have her ankle injury, if Venus didn't have her disease, if if if wah wah wah
Don't really think so. I don't think she could have kept up even in great health as both Martina and Chris elevated their games to compete with each other. Tracy was really just a minor blip for either of them in bigger scheme of things. We saw that with several players of the era that end just couldn't keep up with either of them.
Nice video, so much less stessful to watch than today's matches... The umpire's voice is a bit uncanny, though! :-)
Absolutely - it’s like she’s narrating a horror story
@@andrewdlief1723 there were some real eccentrics on the tour then. And a lot of characters.
@@zeddeka
if anything, there are more eccentric characters now
2 packs of cigarettes a day, probably.
andrew dlief absolutely I second your thought..
At 7:42, Martina yells: "Bullsh-- !"
😆😆😆😆
Lol I came here to see if anyone else noticed that 😂
not sure how this rates as highlights- the first 2 minutes are serves that are faults or returned into the net. Get a better editor!
Why does the umpire sing?
At the end Tracy says that may be the crowd will be for her against Chris because Chris has won 4 x in a row.. in a special look back at open the 20218 Tracy says she was unaware of the fact that Chris was going for a fifth title in a row, was unaware of how many times Chris had won , didn’t understand the status that winning the open really was, treated it without pressure since it was her first slam final.. Tracy clearly patterned her game after Chris yet never gave Chris any sense of respect. Even when she won never mentioned Chris . When Chris spoke she said Tracy was too tough that day when in actuality Chris was passive , just attempting to play steady without heat on her ground strokes almost afraid to play because she feared losing to a younger version of herself , her game. Chris fed Tracy the perfect ball in Tracy’s strike zone. Chris was so nervous and tentative . When Chris heard at her hotel the score of this match she said “ Tracy has no nerves” . Instead of attacking the ball as she had in clairol crown match which she whipped Tracy earlier in the year she was hoping Tracy would be nervous and Chris felt the nerves. Up 4-3 serving at30-15 blew an overhead sitter , blasting it an inch wide. She never recovered losing 6 straight games to 6-4,3-0. Three of those games Chris led 40-0,40-15. Down 5-2 Chris got mad and got it back to Tracy serving at 5-3 15-40 Chris returned Tracy’s serve with a forehand that she reached for without moving her feet and the ball went to bottom of the net. Then Tracy hit a great up the line winner for deuce.Chris folded on MP returning a weak serve in to bottom of the net. Only match Chris played poorly due to nerves. Chris came back the next year and figured out the way to beat her, by moving Tracy up and back instead of right to left . When Chris dictated the point she won 90 percent of the points taking 16 of the last 20 games 4-6, 6-1,6-1. Here Martina’s nerves wee shot playing with the fear of losing to a 16 yr old girl with a 60 MPH serve but a human backboard.
Navratilova n'a pas eu trop d'occasions pour imposer au filet car Austin a bien géré les échanges, à seulement 16 ans cette dernière était preuve d'une maturité incroyable
Man, they moved really slow back then 😅
They were using wood rackets so the entire game for both the men or women was very different back them.
This is great footage of a classic match. Of course Martina was the favorite to win the match. But Tracy was consistent, and effective. You can see how irritated Martina would get, and the next thing you know, Tracy wins.
Same thing happened in their classic rematch final two years later
Why can't umpires sing like that today? Rx
John Lloyd once said that Tracy Austin had the best groundstrokes of the 1970s. I think that's probably true. While she lacked Chris Evert's court craft that she'd learned growing up on clay (Chris was much more comfortable and skilled at using drop shots and lobs to break up her opponent's game), Tracy's groundstrokes, particularly the forehand, were technically better.
Ya if you hit the ball deep and right to her which is Tracy’s strike zone . In 1980 Goolagong mixed things I and so did Chris In the open semis and tracy lost both matches when made to adjust to adjust . Also she grew taller and never seemed to find that center of gravity again on a consistent basis . Tracy’s last match vs Chris she lost 6-,6-0
And lost her last match to Martina 5-7,6-2,6-1.
Umpire needs a coffee, and maybe some singing lessons.
Martina Navratilova must have been really sick of the sight of teenagers on this court. She lost to Pam Shriver in 1978, Tracy Austin here in 1979 and then again in 1981, very nearly lost to Steffi Graf in 1986, Monica Seles in 1991 and Magdalena Maleeva in 1992.
What a totally different game back then!!! Even Navaratilova would have lost many a game in this era - even against Sharapova.
But this is hardly Navratilova's best. Her best single season didn't come for many years, 1983, when she went 86-1 for the entire YEAR, an all-time record for women or men (only loss was to Kathleen Horvath in the 4R of the French). And Martina's most physical prowess/hardest hitting probably didn't happen until the early 1990s (watch highlights of her 91 US Open SF win over Graf and of her wins over Seles, even late in Martina's career). IMO, Martina is the GOAT and was the best athlete women's tennis has ever seen. Not even Serena could ever volley or dive for balls like Martina, and a plethora of times, Martina won BOTH singles and doubles at the same event, a few times even winning all THREE events she entered at the Majors (phenomenal), while most other players (then and now) get tired from only singles and fade in other events.
What the hell are you even talking about !!! So tired of these stupid comments, this is 1979, not the mid 2000's . Furthermore the talentless ball bashing of Sharapova wouldn't have gotten her anywhere in this era with the wood rackets. You had to have some skill, to hit the ball with wood !!
Watch her 1991 US open win over Graf, all out attacking from Navratilova ,unbelievable speed and quality shotmaking,so much variety, so many winners, for sure Sharapova would have beaten in straight sets
It’s wooden rackets you fools
give Sharapova a wood racquet and lets see who wins, give any player now this equipment and see how they play, thats the reality check. - these players were incredible with these small wood racquets
martina looked like she just woke up and was casually practicing!...
Yeah, I'm sure a match she is not proud of.
Tracy played with the lack of nerves that comes with age. One of the best matches Tracy played, so consistent and smart. Martina seems scared almost and I can see why, she knows that Tracy never gives in. . Martina should’ve played the ball and not the reputation of Tracy which was gaining due to Tracy’s eArlier wins for first time. Over Evert. The second win for Tracy was her ending Chrissie’s 125 clay court streak. ESrlier in spring. One could sense the momentum although Chris beat her at Mahaw the tourney before this open in 3 sets.
Martina folding twice from 5-5 . Hard to believe when you see the competitor in Martina later to become the GOAT.
I didn’t like Tracy‘s game, for the reason she didn’t have one. After she was in Chris’s head for a time, Chris turned it around and never lost her again running Tracy around like a ragdoll beating her so badly towards the end she had to retire. Chrissy had the best grand strokes in all of tennis and the best mental head. If she hadn’t run into Navratilova so much, she would be well north of 25 slams
Completely agree with you about Chrissie! Tracy was trying to BE another Chris and she couldn't. Evert's overall game and stroke production much greater than Tracy. Yes Chrissie would probably be the most Slams if Team Tennis and her skipping several of the slams hadn't come about. I have her a close second to Martina for the GOAT with Steffi third and maybe Serena fourth or fifth.
Yeah it was actually kinda strange how Tracy got into her head. But in in hindsight that was all very short lived. Tracy was a minor blip for both Chris and Martina that went on to much bigger things.
Bonne analyse.
This match was almost exactly the same as their 81 final.
Here Martina is getting distracted and agitated by the smallest things.
In their 81 rematch Martina was let down by her forehead volley late in the second set and she started to lose confidence in her game onwards.
Both matches Tracy as cool as a cucumber 🥒 and that's why she won
David Foster Wallace brought me here
That umpires voice. 😂
The chair umpire's voice is so irritating...Ughhhh !!
The chair umpire sounds creepy
This is really trivial but I can't stand the chair umpire's voice. LOL
Funny to watch how often Martina (and Pam Shriver) curse under their lip-read, hushed voices.
Old tennis..looks so slow
I babysat Tracy one day back in 1970 when her mom Jeanie and my sister (who was married to Tracy's coach Rob Lansdorp) went shopping together when I was staying with Rob and my sister.
congratulations. without you, who knows if she would've won this USO
That was actually Tracy's sister you babysat. Tracy went on the shopping trip that day.
@@elmoblatch9787 Zzzz??
why martina didn't run around her backhand and wallop FOR WINNERS off her forehand off austin's weak 2nd serve is beyond me...
Much harder to do that with wooden racquets. Interesting though that Martina was reluctant to run round and hit forehands more in the rest of her career. Her forehand was always prone to breaking down and I think she was just more comfortable hitting slice backhand approaches. Also, as good Martina's movement was, I'm not sure her footwork was of the very highest class. When you did see her run round to hit a forehand, she often looked a little clumsy doing it.
@@zeddeka true, likewise i always thought why didn't chris evert with her accuracy nail for winners on returns of austin's very weak second serve, but i guess the limitations of wood and evert not yet being at her best athletic, strongest, fittest stage of the mid 80's couldn't do this either... NO DOUBT though that both martina and chris would have ate up both 1st and 2nd serve s of austin as they both improved leaps and bounds from 1983 onward, not sure austin's serve could have improved by leaps and
bounds though..
I know she used to do this to Chrissie but Evert NOT weak like Tracy
Matina was a mess in that match in general.
Tracy Austin was better
According to Martinas 2nd wife she hated Tracy and disliked Chris enough the ask the WTA to check stats, number of title for accuracy and called Chris crude names in private. This is all in a deposition Martina was made to testify.
I hate Martina now more than ever.
So the whole friendship between martina and chris has been fake?
@@chillguy102 Chris has said their relationship was bumpy in the middle and that’s the period of life 1981-1984
Maybe so, in the heat of competition when younger I could make crude remarks and say cruel things about my tennis friends - it was petty and wrong, we are all human. Sometimes we have to charge ourselves up to beat our opponents - even friends. Martina could act very cocky on the court in the 80's when she was #1 - but it worked for her. BTW - BJK was Martina's first girlfriend, which wasn't made public waaaay back in the mid-70s
@@lenwelch2195 Ah, the "Nancy Lieberman" period.
Lieberman did a real brainwash job on Martina, teaching her to "hate" Evert.
In private, Navratilova was actually quite gullible.
Once Lieberman exited Martina's circle, Navratilova's friendship with Evert resumed.
When you say "wife #2" you must mean Judy Nelson ?
A little bit more enthusiasm from the umpire please
Martina looks like she could be Ivan Lendl's brother
🤭 🤭 🤭 Oooh, the shade....
por dios... como gano esta chica...ni le pega a la pelota...pero te saca de ritmo ese juego tan lento....
lejos de un primer nivel....
Thanks goodness I was born in the 90s and got to watch from the 2000s till now coz wow these matches were boring as hell
So why waste your life in the comments section of matches you say are "boring as hell" ?
@@zeddeka because I can and I want to. Still boring tho
I feel exactly the opposite. Old tennis is waaaaaaaaay more interesting to watch-- craftier and more fulfilling. Now everyone plays *exactly* the same style, it's all power and no strategy, and it just puts me to sleep. I can't even watch current tennis. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
These old players even can't win a single game against current no. 100 ranking players. Very slow movement 😢. Boring
Put a wood racket in a modern player's hands and today's technique would be ineffective, even impossible.
The are women wow wow.. play tennis funny games very very slow
Who was Manlier???
A Tony Trabert
B Virginia Wade
Certainly not you Paul.
there is a homophobe in every closet...
Rosie Casals ranks up there too
BJK
TracyAustin looks like a schoolgirl here... nowadays she is so made-up...the world was so simple in the 70s and 80s... and so many people of those days have updated themselves/their appearances to the present day looks :-(
Well, ya gotta understand Tracy is 60 now in 2022.
A bit more wrinkles and crows feet compared to 1979.
She literally was a school girl.
This matched seemed staged in some way. I can’t believe how poorly Navratilova played against such weak looking shots. Makes me wonder if other notable events had also been staged at the US Open, such as the notorious “coaching violation” that rattled Serena on her way to winning a record Grand Slam in 2019, or the “foot fault” call against her at a crucial stage of the match, and the allegation that Serena said she’d “k*ll” that lines person in 2009. Not sure if Djokovic hit the lines person by accident or not in 2020. Alize Cornet was penalized for changing her outfit on court. Raducanu was the inevitable last year. Going to be sure to stay tuned to see what happens this year. Hey I guess the alleged tactics mentioned work pretty well 😜
This match looked atrocious, martina looks awful . in the final evert looked awful . in fact , in the every v Graff match on RUclips from 89 ,evert at 34 yrs old looks1000%'better than she did at 24 in the final
Let's not get into baseless conspiracy theories here. Martina was a mess in general during that period before she got really serious and went on to dominate the sport.
Tracy is sweet but I can’t see this match as genuine. I’m wondering if some kind of mind game was done behind the scenes to rattle Navratilova, who played so gently like she was hitting with a child, in other words, awful. If this was a real match. Or maybe there was some kind of deal made behind the scenes to have a nice, “All American,” but apparently mediocre player win a grand slam against all odds, which would make a sensational story. Who knows? In any event, the points were extremely low quality here, and Navratilova has been seen to do magnitudes better in other matches.
Nah don't overthink it. Martina was just a mess in general at that stage and has admitted so. Wasn't really until 1982 she really stepped it up.
No wonder women gets paid less back then, their matches were so slow and didnt bring any excitement unlike today
Actually the women's game is a total disaster these days. Few even watch it anymore.