Chris Evert after her last Wimbledon, 1989
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Tennis player Chris Evert and her husband (at the time) Andy Mill, talk to Dick Enberg about this being possibly her last Wimbledon tournament after she lost the semi-final to Steffi Graf.
She doesn't talk in interviews like most players. She's just talks like a normal human being. Very refreshing.
Her ELLESSE Collections were soooo beautiful , so much class
My favourite female tennis player ever. Chris was always so gracious and had such class ❤️
I think people forget that Chrissie won 5 GS on grass as the AO was still grass when she won it. She got to the Final every year she played there,+ her Wimbedon record is the most consistent of any player.
It really needles me that she's not given the credit for changing her game + upping her fitness when new threats came along.Few player have been truly top flight for 18 consecutive yrs, it's amazing, her win ratio of .90 is still the best ever in open tennis. She was in a class of her own.
at the US OPEN TOO......she did quite well every year....semis or better of something like 18 years.....not to shabby....martina can't say this at either gs.....
She was one of kind, and the great Virgina Wade has said , she'll be remembered with more fondness than probably anybody. A real statement of truth, and a great compliment to Chris.
Virginia said the same years later about Steffi Graf.
I still love Chrissie. She really is a diplomat, and influenced more players, than any other, I think. Inspiring, gifted, mentally strong, feminine, gracious, strong, focused, indomitable, the consummate pro'.
She is the sponsors, event managers, press, photographers, and fans ideal package. :-D
#4Evert4Ever
RIP Dick Enberg - a true gentleman professional who is greatly missed.
watch him doing gymnastics commentary, its really creepy ( 1988 Olympics)
So sad watching Chrissie play her final two Slams. Class act all the way - especially in her farewell to the tour.
@kevin12061989 I think that you have overlooked the fact that Chris won 90% of the matches that she played in her career ! The depth was there.... far more so than it is today !
Never be another one like her.
I was 12 years old when Chrissie retired and it was very sad to see her retire.
@Lynz261 She actually took 5 GS titles on grass, she took 2 AOs, when it was still grass. She also took other grass court titles like Eastbourne, but I know you mean 3 Wimbledon's. Most players would be happy with 5 Slams in a career but to do it on your 'weak surface' is testament to how good she was. Her baseline accuracy has never been emulated, it was deadly+she was the master of the lob and stop volley.
Who doesn't love Chrissie?
i like her honesty, she realised that time wasnt on her side even though she was still top 5.
TT PATRICK top 4
she was such a nice and always up beat girl, not many left like that anymore in today's game
@Lynz261 Its true she never went out in the 1st round of any tournament and still holds the record for wins on clay. She won the AO + W'don on grass when everyone said she wasn't a grass specialist. 5 GS titles on your worst surface not bad. Martina picked her tournament more or their head to head could have been very different. The Williams sisters will never come close to emulating her. She has grace and tenacity.
Serena has won more GS than Chris. 👍💥
@@arnoldamaral7406 You're right.
I'm happy to be proved wrong there.
In the 9yrs since I left that comment; they've both outplayed anything I imagined.
Serena, is def the greatest & her longevity, is nigh on sublime.
Not to detract from any successes, but Chris Evert's era, was a far cry from the athleticism & strength we see today.
All any player can do; is be the best of their peers. Evert's consistency & win ratio are also iconic.
I'm lucky to have seen such stark variants of the game. Graff was incredible, but Serena, has taken it to a whole new level. 🍀🌠
Chrissie...Pure class. And Dick Enberg, too.
@sandrovic1970 Well said. Nobody else has ever played 18 consecutive Wimbledons, only once failing to reach the last 4 as you say due to illness. She never beat Martina in a final here but that's cos when she was winning it Martina was already out or not playing. Their head to head would've been very different if Martina had played more on clay, or if they'd met in the French more often. Chris still won 3 times+2 Oz Opens which is amazing for someone people say is not a grass court player.
@Lynz261 The 1st 6 times (I think) Chris played Steffi she beat her, Steffi just got too strong and Chris was in her twilight then as her mind was on having a family and she's an all or nothing lady, she was never gonna give 50%, so she rightly retired while still in the top 4 or 5, still reaching semis+finals. She went on to have 3 boys that she's deoted too it was sad her marriages failed but she is a 100% devoted mum/mom.
@jubbadupa She played 18 consecutive Wimbledons only once not reaching the last 4 (+that was due to illness), that's an extraordinary record and she still has the highest win ratio of any player in the open era. Players today pick and choose their tournaments more because there are more of them and the yield is greater.
Didn't she lose to Kathy Jordan? I don't believe she was sick?
@@MrBjorn6she had taken John Lloyd’s dose of niacin the night before. You have ,to build a tolerance to it , today niacin is niacinamide - so only the amount your body needs niacin is converted to niacin in this form. Before it was plain niacin and if you took a dose higher than what your used to , men n.utilize more due to muscle mass, metabolism , and weight. She tried to reschedule her match t.he next day but t.he draw for the next day had been posted, only other alternative was to default. She tried to rest and took the court. Without warming up before the match to conserve her energy . She felt she could pull it off. . She lost the first set quickly a Jordan stormed the net on each po8nt. She built up a large lead in second set but then puked in her towel during change over. She became very weak. In her press conference like a lady with class not wanting to take anything away from Jordan who can be a difficult player for Chris on a good day, said she wouldn’t.have taken the court if she hadn’t felt fit to play convincing no one having to rush away to vomit. She wrote about this in her book Lloyd on Lloyd .
RIP, Dick Enberg.
@westfaner Very true. We still miss her, as does the game.
Chris and Andy look like such a handsome couple, I can't believe she left him for that other dude that she regrets
@Lynz261
actually, she took 5 titles on grass. her to wins of the AO were won on grass (they changed the surface to rebound ace in 1988).
NO player man or woman in tennis history has EVER come back from so many matches completely down and out of it and come back to win as chris evert... that right there is saying ALOT!..
GeorgeHenryThomas your talking about comebacks for steffi in the realm of being a set down or a set down and a break down and so on.. EVERT has come back from multiple matches in her long (longer than graf's career by the way) MATCH POINTS DOWN!....
71 u.s. open saving 6 match points
75 u.s. clay courts saving 2 match points and being down 7-6, 5-0
80 wightman cup saving 2 match points being down 5-1 in the third set
76 virginia slims of san francisco saving a match point
75 virginia slims of houston saving a match point
79 easbourne saving a match point
these are the only ones i can think of offhand..
I'd say Serena is the comeback queen- not a fan of hers, but you have to give her her due....Steffi is a great champion, but not to factor in Monica's absence- during which she won 6 of her slam finals, is a huge disservice to Monica.
Evert won her 1st 6 matches v Graf, the next 6 went to Graf as she was getting stronger and reached #1, but you can't say Graf dominated Evert their overall H2H is Evert 6- Graf 7 (the 7th was a w/over as Evert was injured so there was no play).You have to say they were pretty evenly matched at 6 all in matches they played,granted there was no real rivalry,none of there being close.As Chris was wound down,Graf was in her prime.
It wan't til 85 that Martina dominated.Evert has time @ #1 til 85.
KLM Steffi Graf vs evert is similar to Evert vs King - neither player played each other when both played each other when both were in their prime.
@anebt It must have been SO intimidating to see her across the net anchored to that baseline knowing, she would grind you down, I'd love to know how many forced/unforced errors she induced just with her steely resolve. Her accuracy was unbelievable.
@evertchris Actually the correct count ins 6-7, if you count the US Open walkover it is 6-8, but they actually never played that match.
@sandrovic1970 I know everyone always says Martina was invincible on grass but they forget the AO, where her record was patchy. I remember the 87 semi, Chris was No2 seed + Martina 1 so they ought to have met in the final, Martina just edged it. The 88 semi was worse tho, when Chris had saved 3 match points and everyone on Centre court including Martina thought she'd leveled to Deuce but it was called out,!Only time Chris never shook umpires hand.If only they'd had Hawk Eye then,it was in!
@RaleighNC306 I agree Chris actually had some really good spells, I think for the 1st time in her career she was thinking about other things and Steffi won the big points mentally, it was so sad to see her go out on a double fault, but at least it was Centre Court against the World No1.
I prefer to think that double fault helped her to realize she had nothing left. You don’t want to.o retire when you still feel capable of winning against the number one or number two if you have a good day because. That good day could happen in a slam event in Sf and or final as in AO 88 where she beat Martina and lost to Steffi . Steffi was up 6-1,5-1 and Chris fought back winning 5 games in a row to 6-5 but lost second set and the match in a tight tie break. Winning 5 straight games gave her incentive to play while 88 season, played a great Wsf against Martina losing 7-5 in third in 88 and 6-4 in third in 87. Too bad she had stomach flu when she woke up for her Sf against Steffi in 88 Sf at open. I suspected her weakness of strength when she squEaked by Maleeva winning that third set in QF.so when Chris lost three finals in spring of 89. Had bad losses to Hana in beginning of 89 losing 3-6,7-6,6-0 that shook her a bit and her reaction in third set was over losing control of the match in second set. You don’t know you’ve had enough until you’ve had enough. That double fault against G,raf represents that when she looks at center court now that she played as long as she could .
I cried when I watched this then, and I cried when I watched it now. That match with Steffi hung on just a few points here and there--if Evert had won any number of them the score would've "looked better"...heck she may have even won!
No way. I don't like Graf and I would have loved Evert to win that match, but Graf was way better. And Evert describes it very well in this interview - Graf had the confidence as a number one and that's why she did win those important points.
Nobody remembers that there are 15 years between them. A 34 yo against a rising 19 yo. Chris (and Martina) era was ending and Steffi's leadership was beginning. It's impossible to compare champions of different ages. Anyway I think that women tennis reached the top with Chris and Martina. Nobody else as them.
It was just time to move on she had an amazing career but with every athlete it does come to an end
@jubbadupa All the male analysts have agreed that in those years there were only three or four players winning it all, you know that, i know that, stop denying the truth, the game has MUCH MORE depth now
@evertchris But Evert won the 1st 6, it was only as Steffi got stronger and moved up the rankings as Chris was winding down that she beat her. Graff was stronger in the end, but it wasn't always the case.
True. Chrissie had lost a step esp after her knee injury of 1986, and also mentally wasnt the beast she was. Even then she almost beat Steffi in 1989 Boca. A peak Evert would have won that match.
hey andy...let chrissie answer if it is her last one or not...........wouldn't it be her decision
Still the most GS finals and French wins
@evertchris Actually as far as the WTA tour events go, they are really even, already mention is that the US Open 88, was a walk-over, and another of the wins was at Fed Cup in 87, which is not really part of the tour, Not that it is not a win, just sayin '
I'm afraid a lot of people DO say that Navratalova is the undisputed queen of grass + nobody came close to her in her era.
I like to correct them + you're quite right to say she was beatable on grass although it was by far her strongest surface. Evert was an all-rounder but for some reason people still say she was weak on grass, I think players like Sabatini were weak on grass! For Evert to be seeded lower than Gaby @ W'don was insane,but she proved them wrong by reaching SF or better 17/18 yrs
KLM----chrissie was right there with martina at wimbledon the whole time.....chrissie was a finalist 10 times i believe at wimby....winning 3 and losing to martina 6 times......so.....martina isn't necessarily the queen of grass........
KlM----I EVEN think that martina 's final wimby in 1990 was a fluke...and the finalist run in 94...was a joke.......
@@robertbrown7917 Yes, you're right. That's what I was saying; that I like to correct people, who say that about Martina.
They were pretty even, except indoors/carpet for MN. & clay for CME. 🥰
@kevin12061989 Your the one that is ridiculous, there was far more depth and skill in the late 60's and in the 70's, then there was in any era of tennis, yes the game is more physical because the girls are much bigger and stronger. And the raquets make it a bashing contest, not a tennis match. Chris Evert didn't play 20 touraments a year for 20 years, she played 18 years on tour, and played the most touraments a year from 74 -76, from 20 to 22 years old, and only play over 20 tourmaments in 74.
jubbadupa only 20 tournaments in 74? What do you think they play now ? Not nearly as many. She was 107- 4 in 1974.
@zedlacredit This is ridiculous, there is so much more depth today, in those days, you had what? Five great players, that's all now, everybody in the top 30 can beat anyone, the game is so much more physical now, we both know it, Evert wouldn't succeed today by playing that much, she'll get injured all the time, ask Clijsters or Jankovic
Kks Boumbox you don’t know a thing about tennis. Tennis is a mental game . Power does not equate with greatness. The rackets of today allow even the wknd player power. Greatness in tennis means how well they respond to pressure. No one was as mentally fit as Evert. So many of the women can win today because not one of them beside Serena is mentally strong evert would do just as well today if she lived during this time
Rallies were a lot longer in Chrissie day. You had to work every point. These days players mindlessly spray the ball.