If only she wasn’t stabbed history would be different for steffi
@neilmodino928419 күн бұрын
She reminds me of Julie Halard hehe
@kylestewart143919 күн бұрын
Chris is 34 here and she never lost her speed or her smooth graceful power she could have played in the 90's if she liked and been very formidable but I also respect her classy retirement timing ❤❤
@sunglee393522 күн бұрын
Forehand looks weird but she was effective
@th825728 күн бұрын
Chris was playing herself back into form that Spring after suffering a bad injury in 1986 that kept her off the tour after the US Open. She had a shock loss to Kate Gompert on her return in February 1987. She then won 34 of her next 37 matches, her only losses being here, in Miami to Graf and then at the French Open to Navratilova. During that streak she won 4 tournaments and won 20 consecutive matches.
@schontasmАй бұрын
Why does commentator say that Monica is 19 at 3:19 ?
@CindyC71Ай бұрын
sorry, that was from an edit cut, he was saying that Chris Evert was 19 when Monica was born 😁
@ragepie292Ай бұрын
This crowd was pretty animated
@ManInBlack1988Ай бұрын
The moon balling drives me insane! Glad she stopped doing that.
@Ricky-mo6mvАй бұрын
2:19 This point is masterful by Monica. That drop shot hit on the rise to win the point is insane. I don’t how Monica did that on the regular 🤷♂
@javierdelpino73742 ай бұрын
Those were the days 😊 That 1997 Roland Garros was so interesting
@user-lc3bk7is2q2 ай бұрын
Cuan cariño alegria respeto emocionante nena linda
@th82572 ай бұрын
You see Zvereva here using a lot of heavy topspin moonballs, much as Monica Seles did against Chris in 1989. It sas known on the tour that Chris hated heavy topspin - her whole stroke mechanics were based on backing off and letting the ball drop, which often left her well behind the baseline or pulled wide off court. There was one famous point at the 1989 US Open where Monica Seles hit a moonball to Chris and Chris moved so far back that she hit the stands and the ball bounced over her head.
@lenwelch21952 ай бұрын
The wind took that ball out as the fence was 18 feet behind the baseline . The ball bounced very high after it landed and wind took it , no way to hit on rise on that particular ball.
@lovealways7292 ай бұрын
wow her movement inspite being over weight was much better, what happened to her later ?
@senorgato702 ай бұрын
I wish Gaby would have won this one. Had it only been best of 3, she would have, but it was best of 5. She still could have won but as Carillo said early in the first set, Gaby had bouts of defensive play. Had she played her aggressive style, the outcome could have been different. I think Seles brain worked so differently than any player in history. She didn't necessarily "look" athletic, but she was one of the best movers out there. Most importantly, her reaction to move to a shot was superior to almost any other player at the time. Then instinctively knowing what to do with the ball was just breathtaking to watch. Whereas it seemed like Gaby had to take a quick moment to process before actually moving then when she finally got to the ball, she would hit a defensive shot many times right back to the opponent.
@user-xp5dv1me6e2 ай бұрын
Steffi had what you cannot teach, what you cannot learn, true grit and mental strenght.
@fiancial2 ай бұрын
Martin hingis guzel teniscilerin basinda gelir
@Calicokit1013 ай бұрын
It looked like Jana might stage a remarkable fightback here.....but as usual, Steffi was too strong.
@ericwashington42363 ай бұрын
No approach shots ,no volleys dead tradition no standard
@ericwashington42363 ай бұрын
Big rackets,poly strings- heavy balls slow courts 40 shot rallys
@wayneboyd43723 ай бұрын
Interesting that Bud Collins said the Maleeva sisters are not the most happier looking ladies on tour and yet Chrissie was known as the Ice Princess and rarely smiled too LOL
@albator942303 ай бұрын
Quelle bataille exceptionnelle entre ces deux immenses championnes (Rip Jana 😢) dans un contexte si particulier... Bravo Monica ! On aurait tellement aimé qu'elle gagne ce RG...
@planettennis28223 ай бұрын
A Date le salió todo, hizo daño y en la final no puso ni las manos contra Graf.
@frank79283 ай бұрын
Seles! La più grande!❤
@DebraGriffiths4 ай бұрын
Steffi graff g o a t martina 2nd of all time chris evert 3rd of all time
@Danimal11774 ай бұрын
After this grueling match, Hingis had to play the women's doubles final, and then the next day had to play the singles final...it was just too much for her little 16 year old body.
@barrybond14114 ай бұрын
Yes I totally agree with you, Steffi Graf won on all four grand slams surfaces at least 4 times and held the no.1 ranking for 377 weeks more than anyone else in history, and last but not least won all four grand slams and Olympic olympic gold medal in the same calendar year , the golden slam, that's why Steffi Graf is the greatest womens tennis player of all time 👍
@th82574 ай бұрын
Oddly enough, this was Monica's only win against Jana on clay. Jana had two wins and a walkover on clay in her favour. Clay actually seems to have helped Jana's game against Monica. It took the sting off Monica's shots and allowed Jana to manoeuvre her around with her slice backhand.
@hugobossfan15 ай бұрын
Y chrissie wow es leyenda viviente
@hugobossfan15 ай бұрын
Acá con las cámaras casi al nivel del court se puede ver la velocidad con que jugaban ya en aquella época. Wow increible!
@th82575 ай бұрын
Monica's grunting much more muted here. Apparently she didn't grunt in practice sessions, and some exhibitions.
@tomschmitz-dj1fg6 ай бұрын
Sabatini was so excited to win, because this was the first time, she had ever beaten Evert in 3 sets... Course, it was a 34 going to be 35 year old retiring Evert in her last year. Just saying...
@Renatoharper-vo2uf6 ай бұрын
Seles the best player when lost with hingis 1 injured 2 fat and out or Shape idots graf wins in wimbledon ine day ago beat navratilova graf wins locky day Mónica -1992 not play wb couse she hate grass
@Logans3Run6 ай бұрын
What a great forehand zinger from Chrissie at 6:31 to Zinas backhand. Nice. Entertaining match.
@MJ-zx3ct6 ай бұрын
Hingis was so gorgeous here 🤩 And what a body too!
@robertscottsinclairroberts23336 ай бұрын
Two of the best players ever loved both there games ❤❤
@Georg81517 ай бұрын
1989 and still in a final! 17 years after her career breakthrough in 1972. Still playing so powerful. And always ladylike in her behavior. Legend!❤
@lorisminerva10057 ай бұрын
top...
@Georg81517 ай бұрын
Chris Evert, a great lady and a great champion.✌
@robertl4268 ай бұрын
Thanks for the upload, Monica is probably my favourite player of all time. So interesting to see in her earlier days favouring her backhand, and using the moonball against Evert knowing that Chris hated moonballers. In her later career Monica greatly improved her serve and her forehand, it's just such a shame that the infamous Hamburg incident robbed her of her full potential.
@guicon20078 ай бұрын
The same date, four years earlier...😪😪😪😪
@mechagojira69518 ай бұрын
Tu Cindy C for this great channel!!! I love the Swiss Miss and u have plenty of her matches. I miss the late 90's and players like Hingis who were so intelligent and competitive. Unfortunately for her this was the time where the women were 6' 2..6'3 compared to little Martina at 5'7" but Martina NEVER beat herself...you had to take her out. Still hurt seeing her lose to this day..wah wsh i know😂...she won 25 grand slam titles..of course combined singles mixed and doubles. She messed up in 2007 by them finding a metabolite of Cocaine in her test but a 2 year suspension!!!??? Wow... Lindsey Davenport who she is good friends w called it doping. Maybe it is if u fail any drug test in the WTA but doping to my small mind means what Lance Armstrong did or what Simona Halep ( allegedly) or Mark McGuire did taking steroids. Thats trying to gain an advantage toward ur sport. How is Martina doing a line of Cocaine doping????? Im 100% sure she wasnt using it b4 a match!!! Shes too smart for that and it sounds ridiculous. Yes it gives you energy but not so much in any sports related way imo.
@mechagojira69517 ай бұрын
Tu Cindy got the ❤️ and like....would u happen to have Swiss Miss ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ matches on ESPN or Fox where its FULL matched cuz when the announcer says something interesting its cut off. If u do plz post...if not np and tu for ur time and effort!!!! Although I can do w/ o Pam Shrivers anti " I'm in love w Lindsey Davenport" Hingis takes....she has no class unlike her partner Mary Joe who is not only 😍 but never ages !!!!!!
@moviefan4life1669 ай бұрын
What a match!!! Monica taking the ball so early and hitting her angles, and Gaby ripping one handed backhands like no one else could, and attacking the net with athleticism and elegance. Just wow. Gaby really penetrated the court well here, punishing her groundstrokes off both sides and hitting hard well placed first serves. Monica showing how fit and resilient she was. Gaby was so strong she could handle the pace of Seles. Gaby had her chance to take it in 4. Both had their chances in 91 but young Monica would have quite the career. If only Gaby always played like this. She’d have won so many more big titles.
@keithjacobson16409 ай бұрын
Seeing Gaby play this well really makes me wonder how she didn't win a 2nd major.
@dagingbuenaobra65639 ай бұрын
martina is so stiff and condescending, 😊😊😊😊
@fjordking9 ай бұрын
Irina had one stinger of a topspin backhand, she was one of my favorite players back then, '90s had a huge pool of top tennis players, 1 to 20 could beat each other on a given day
@dagingbuenaobra656310 ай бұрын
ive enjoyed their Matches together, but some Monica's fans always said about the stabbing which is irrelevant
@monica01207710 ай бұрын
I miss those days when the crowd was excited for tennis and you felt the energy in the stadium.
@dinomijatovic392110 ай бұрын
Amazing comeback from Seles in the final set completely switching momentum with pure desire to win a tennis match..also amazing sportmanship from Sabatini, pure class in professional sport!
@lenwelch219510 ай бұрын
Seles here plays with no nerves. 5 months later Vintage Evert showed Monica just how great an all timer she was - above Seles. 6-0,6-2. Evert will go down in top 5 woman players of all time. Serena , graf navratolva evert Seles. Court doesn’t belong in top ten with 11 Australians beating Jane Lebanese a local 5 -6 times. Even Chris beat court at 15 just after court won grand slam with kingher only real opponent.
@jujumusique130511 ай бұрын
The tour was so deep in 1999 that Seles only won this title
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If only she wasn’t stabbed history would be different for steffi
She reminds me of Julie Halard hehe
Chris is 34 here and she never lost her speed or her smooth graceful power she could have played in the 90's if she liked and been very formidable but I also respect her classy retirement timing ❤❤
Forehand looks weird but she was effective
Chris was playing herself back into form that Spring after suffering a bad injury in 1986 that kept her off the tour after the US Open. She had a shock loss to Kate Gompert on her return in February 1987. She then won 34 of her next 37 matches, her only losses being here, in Miami to Graf and then at the French Open to Navratilova. During that streak she won 4 tournaments and won 20 consecutive matches.
Why does commentator say that Monica is 19 at 3:19 ?
sorry, that was from an edit cut, he was saying that Chris Evert was 19 when Monica was born 😁
This crowd was pretty animated
The moon balling drives me insane! Glad she stopped doing that.
2:19 This point is masterful by Monica. That drop shot hit on the rise to win the point is insane. I don’t how Monica did that on the regular 🤷♂
Those were the days 😊 That 1997 Roland Garros was so interesting
Cuan cariño alegria respeto emocionante nena linda
You see Zvereva here using a lot of heavy topspin moonballs, much as Monica Seles did against Chris in 1989. It sas known on the tour that Chris hated heavy topspin - her whole stroke mechanics were based on backing off and letting the ball drop, which often left her well behind the baseline or pulled wide off court. There was one famous point at the 1989 US Open where Monica Seles hit a moonball to Chris and Chris moved so far back that she hit the stands and the ball bounced over her head.
The wind took that ball out as the fence was 18 feet behind the baseline . The ball bounced very high after it landed and wind took it , no way to hit on rise on that particular ball.
wow her movement inspite being over weight was much better, what happened to her later ?
I wish Gaby would have won this one. Had it only been best of 3, she would have, but it was best of 5. She still could have won but as Carillo said early in the first set, Gaby had bouts of defensive play. Had she played her aggressive style, the outcome could have been different. I think Seles brain worked so differently than any player in history. She didn't necessarily "look" athletic, but she was one of the best movers out there. Most importantly, her reaction to move to a shot was superior to almost any other player at the time. Then instinctively knowing what to do with the ball was just breathtaking to watch. Whereas it seemed like Gaby had to take a quick moment to process before actually moving then when she finally got to the ball, she would hit a defensive shot many times right back to the opponent.
Steffi had what you cannot teach, what you cannot learn, true grit and mental strenght.
Martin hingis guzel teniscilerin basinda gelir
It looked like Jana might stage a remarkable fightback here.....but as usual, Steffi was too strong.
No approach shots ,no volleys dead tradition no standard
Big rackets,poly strings- heavy balls slow courts 40 shot rallys
Interesting that Bud Collins said the Maleeva sisters are not the most happier looking ladies on tour and yet Chrissie was known as the Ice Princess and rarely smiled too LOL
Quelle bataille exceptionnelle entre ces deux immenses championnes (Rip Jana 😢) dans un contexte si particulier... Bravo Monica ! On aurait tellement aimé qu'elle gagne ce RG...
A Date le salió todo, hizo daño y en la final no puso ni las manos contra Graf.
Seles! La più grande!❤
Steffi graff g o a t martina 2nd of all time chris evert 3rd of all time
After this grueling match, Hingis had to play the women's doubles final, and then the next day had to play the singles final...it was just too much for her little 16 year old body.
Yes I totally agree with you, Steffi Graf won on all four grand slams surfaces at least 4 times and held the no.1 ranking for 377 weeks more than anyone else in history, and last but not least won all four grand slams and Olympic olympic gold medal in the same calendar year , the golden slam, that's why Steffi Graf is the greatest womens tennis player of all time 👍
Oddly enough, this was Monica's only win against Jana on clay. Jana had two wins and a walkover on clay in her favour. Clay actually seems to have helped Jana's game against Monica. It took the sting off Monica's shots and allowed Jana to manoeuvre her around with her slice backhand.
Y chrissie wow es leyenda viviente
Acá con las cámaras casi al nivel del court se puede ver la velocidad con que jugaban ya en aquella época. Wow increible!
Monica's grunting much more muted here. Apparently she didn't grunt in practice sessions, and some exhibitions.
Sabatini was so excited to win, because this was the first time, she had ever beaten Evert in 3 sets... Course, it was a 34 going to be 35 year old retiring Evert in her last year. Just saying...
Seles the best player when lost with hingis 1 injured 2 fat and out or Shape idots graf wins in wimbledon ine day ago beat navratilova graf wins locky day Mónica -1992 not play wb couse she hate grass
What a great forehand zinger from Chrissie at 6:31 to Zinas backhand. Nice. Entertaining match.
Hingis was so gorgeous here 🤩 And what a body too!
Two of the best players ever loved both there games ❤❤
1989 and still in a final! 17 years after her career breakthrough in 1972. Still playing so powerful. And always ladylike in her behavior. Legend!❤
top...
Chris Evert, a great lady and a great champion.✌
Thanks for the upload, Monica is probably my favourite player of all time. So interesting to see in her earlier days favouring her backhand, and using the moonball against Evert knowing that Chris hated moonballers. In her later career Monica greatly improved her serve and her forehand, it's just such a shame that the infamous Hamburg incident robbed her of her full potential.
The same date, four years earlier...😪😪😪😪
Tu Cindy C for this great channel!!! I love the Swiss Miss and u have plenty of her matches. I miss the late 90's and players like Hingis who were so intelligent and competitive. Unfortunately for her this was the time where the women were 6' 2..6'3 compared to little Martina at 5'7" but Martina NEVER beat herself...you had to take her out. Still hurt seeing her lose to this day..wah wsh i know😂...she won 25 grand slam titles..of course combined singles mixed and doubles. She messed up in 2007 by them finding a metabolite of Cocaine in her test but a 2 year suspension!!!??? Wow... Lindsey Davenport who she is good friends w called it doping. Maybe it is if u fail any drug test in the WTA but doping to my small mind means what Lance Armstrong did or what Simona Halep ( allegedly) or Mark McGuire did taking steroids. Thats trying to gain an advantage toward ur sport. How is Martina doing a line of Cocaine doping????? Im 100% sure she wasnt using it b4 a match!!! Shes too smart for that and it sounds ridiculous. Yes it gives you energy but not so much in any sports related way imo.
Tu Cindy got the ❤️ and like....would u happen to have Swiss Miss ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ matches on ESPN or Fox where its FULL matched cuz when the announcer says something interesting its cut off. If u do plz post...if not np and tu for ur time and effort!!!! Although I can do w/ o Pam Shrivers anti " I'm in love w Lindsey Davenport" Hingis takes....she has no class unlike her partner Mary Joe who is not only 😍 but never ages !!!!!!
What a match!!! Monica taking the ball so early and hitting her angles, and Gaby ripping one handed backhands like no one else could, and attacking the net with athleticism and elegance. Just wow. Gaby really penetrated the court well here, punishing her groundstrokes off both sides and hitting hard well placed first serves. Monica showing how fit and resilient she was. Gaby was so strong she could handle the pace of Seles. Gaby had her chance to take it in 4. Both had their chances in 91 but young Monica would have quite the career. If only Gaby always played like this. She’d have won so many more big titles.
Seeing Gaby play this well really makes me wonder how she didn't win a 2nd major.
martina is so stiff and condescending, 😊😊😊😊
Irina had one stinger of a topspin backhand, she was one of my favorite players back then, '90s had a huge pool of top tennis players, 1 to 20 could beat each other on a given day
ive enjoyed their Matches together, but some Monica's fans always said about the stabbing which is irrelevant
I miss those days when the crowd was excited for tennis and you felt the energy in the stadium.
Amazing comeback from Seles in the final set completely switching momentum with pure desire to win a tennis match..also amazing sportmanship from Sabatini, pure class in professional sport!
Seles here plays with no nerves. 5 months later Vintage Evert showed Monica just how great an all timer she was - above Seles. 6-0,6-2. Evert will go down in top 5 woman players of all time. Serena , graf navratolva evert Seles. Court doesn’t belong in top ten with 11 Australians beating Jane Lebanese a local 5 -6 times. Even Chris beat court at 15 just after court won grand slam with kingher only real opponent.
The tour was so deep in 1999 that Seles only won this title