Bill Macatee is always easy on the eyes

I've never seen this. Thank you for posting!

Amazing documentary

I’ve always felt bad for Tracy, she was a great player and I really think she would have had a great rivalry with Evert and Navratilova. Glad to see she’s been such a good commentator over the years

@mikeg8375

3 жыл бұрын

I like her commentary. She often provides a lot of interesting insight. I miss the days when USA covered the US Open... We don't get to hear Tracy commentate much anymore!

@grantgoffin4774

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeg8375 You can see her chemistry with Bill McCatee too. They commentated together for many years in the past.

@mikeg8375

3 жыл бұрын

@@grantgoffin4774 Yes! And Ted Robinson also. We don't know them personally but they seem to really enjoy the sport.

@johniii8147

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think physically Tracy could have kept up with Chis and Martina as they escalated their games and and power and fitness.

@travisstrong5389

2 жыл бұрын

@@johniii8147 Especialy as she was always physically a bit fragile.

I loved tracy

This story is almost sadder than the Seles drama. At least Seles came back and won another slam, plus got to be a part of the golden era of women´s tennis.

3:32 I haven’t seen balls like that unless I was playing my brother

In my experience, the wind hurts the net rusher more than the baseline. When you hit a volley, it MUST be precise, AND have STICK on it. So the slightest gust of wind can throw everything off. You might get the ball back, but if the defender can get to the volley, she can lob you or pass you. and overheads are impossible in the wind....I've seen excellent players miss overhead after overhead when the wind is blowing. When you're hitting passing shots, you can't be as precise, but if you just get the ball back (sometimes hitting it right at the opponent), the wind can do your work for you. Approach shots are tough as well.

@lkfrostad

3 жыл бұрын

I agree!!

I think Trracy Austin and Sarah Jessica Parker are the same person.

sad, especially the end and her even now remembering her career ending way way to early....filled wit sadness,regret and longing.. NO FAIR it was... funny because i was a huge evert fan and rooted for her against tracy... NOW? i wish it was a tri-valry... and tracy is one of my favorite commentators, definitely her and virginia wade are my 2 favorite female commentators! (throw martina into that mix as well)...

@joemarshall4226

3 жыл бұрын

Martina is a great commentator...Always polite, always analytical, good sense of humor, but never afraid to say what she thinks.....

Tracy was a great player but even if her career was not halted by injury I just don't think her game would have translated to the newer rackets as they started to come in.

@mbblover

7 жыл бұрын

hard to say.... and who knows... my personal opinion is that tracy would have not only have had to switch to graphite like everyone else, but her strokes and style of play would have had to change, in some ways drastically... her serve would have had to improve big time, even the actual stroke production of her serve which is kind of hard to change after so many years.. evert never had a great serve, but it was a good and dependable serve, and she did develop it into a harder serve, plus added kick to her second serve and used her legs much more and stepped into her serve and the court. evert's actual stroke production of her serve was good and way better then austin's. ... austin would have had to develop a way better mid court game and the transition from baseline to mid court, her volleys would have had to improve and especially her overhead... evert always had a better mid court game then austin and vastly better overhead.. austin would have had to also develop variety in her game, with the graphite rackets everyone used, austin would have hit the ball harder, but then again so would everyone else... it wouldn't be enough to just hit the ball flat all the time and hard... evert already had more variety in her groundstrokes and with her graphite racket actually changed her stroke production on both forehand and backhand, mostly the forehand though using topspin more and so on... . i don't know if austin had it in her, to do any of this with her strokes.... and lastly, austin would have to have been a better athlete and faster and stronger to keep up with super martina and a stronger, faster, fitter evert...her body i don't know if it could have taken the training? ALOT OF stuff austin would have to have done to keep up with the martina and chris show of the mid to late 80s....

@johniii8147

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you and I just don’t think she could’ve kept up with Chris and Martina in the long run . No one else could until Graf

@MrBjorn6

4 жыл бұрын

@@johniii8147 I disagree I feel Tracy was like Novak Djokovic's. When she got injured that what tennis lost. If we had no Novak it would be all Fedal, thank God for Novak. If Chris could adjust to Graphite Raquets, Andrea Jeager was already using Graphite rackets, why couldn't Tracy Adjusted? She was extremely young.

@MirjanaLfan

22 күн бұрын

Respectfully disagree. Her game was identical pretty much to Chris’ game, Chris says Tracy hit a little harder than her, so if Chris was able to adjust I’m sure Tracy would have too.

Tracy was such a fierce competitor. She was able to beat Chrissie at her own game at THE OPEN. It was so sad that she had to retire due to injury....Bodo said that she was a little bit of a Chris clone. A little bit? She was a carbon copy.

@maxipazz8214

3 жыл бұрын

O she wasn’t, different style of serve, different preparation on forehand, she was no clone,

She talks about a back injury taking her out of the game for 5 months, then coming back to beat Martina in the U.S. Open Final. And then the segment quickly wraps up and ends. She didn't think she'd be out of the game in 2 years. But it's not discussed what happened in the next two years that took her out of the game.

@stevebbuk

Жыл бұрын

I think it was too emotional for her to discuss and the interviewer stopped interrogating her then, and rightly so. Nobody really wants their medical history dissected, though on Wikipedia it does mention she suffered from sciatica.

@warrenfriedman3168

Жыл бұрын

He wasn’t interrogating her, he was interviewing her, and her disappearance from the game at age 18 was as much a story as her meteoric emergence.

@stevebbuk

Жыл бұрын

@@warrenfriedman3168 But there's no mystery: she developed sciatica which prevented her from remaining at the higher echelons of the game.

@warrenfriedman3168

Жыл бұрын

@@stevebbuk I would like to have heard about that. Was playing in the women’s game too much on her developing teenage body? Whenever a sports champion is taken out of the game by injury while in their prime it always begs the question “Why?”

@stevebbuk

Жыл бұрын

@@warrenfriedman3168 Well I think you've put it in a nutshell. We don't see the endless hours of practice it takes to become World No. 1 and the toll it must take physically, not to mention mentally.

Very gracious of Chris to be in the chorus singing Tracy's priase. But only probably because Tracy eventually bowed out of the game so prematurely that she never even came close to equalling Chris' achievement!

@davanmani556

7 жыл бұрын

The key was Chris was able to interact with tennis players outside her family particularly like Jimmy Connors, Kristien Kemmer Shaw, Dennis Ralston, Illie Nastase, Martina Navratilova, and so on. Whereas, Tracy was to herself and family. I think being that young caused that issue.

@trent8002003

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed, Chris was the worldliest of them all. Apart from her awesome tennis prowess, Chris was also a first rate PR animal and a quintessential people person. She's never been on bad terms with anyone! And that's why some people consider her just too slick and oily to be genuine.

@johniii8147

5 жыл бұрын

Chris got her revenge she beat Tracy 6-0 6-0 In their final meeting

@grantgoffin4774

2 жыл бұрын

@@johniii8147 Tracy was a shadow of herself by then.

@johniii8147

2 жыл бұрын

@@grantgoffin4774 Agreed her body just couldn’t hold up

Tracy Austin would hae won at least Ten slams had her back not ruined her career. Several Evert fans like to conveniently see her Back issues as 'Burnout' By the way this program is very much American based as usual, no mention of anyone else, for instance its well documented that Evonne Goolagong was her idol

@johniii8147

5 жыл бұрын

MAXI PAZ Not really so sure about the. Once Martina And Chris really kicked up the rivalry I’m not sure Tracy could’ve kept up with that. They really elevated the level it just wasn’t meant to be for Tracy

@lenwelch2195

5 жыл бұрын

MAXI PAZ Tracy obviously idolized Chris , her game is copied from her but never acknowledged tracy never acknowledged Chris in her 79 open win speech while Chris said Tracy was too tough that day. Chris came back Just to beat Tracy and be number one again the following year. During that time the two were just too competitive to be friends although it was Chris who was more gracious. It turned out that Chris was mentally tougher than Tracy. The extent of Tracy’s injuries have never been explained , not suggesting they were not real. Find it ironic that Tracy waited until Chris retired until re entering the pro circuit. Tracy didn’t want to take a chance of facing her again in a tournament .

@leesimmons9091

5 жыл бұрын

What a shame

@StephenDoty84

5 жыл бұрын

@@lenwelch2195 Best book review I ever read was of Tracy's autobiography Beyond the Court by David Foster Wallace. Every fan of hers would enjoy it, I think. As a regional tennis competitor, Wallace was the man for the book review. It appeared in the Philly Enquirer. It's in a book of his essays now and maybe online.