I'd forgotten what a great interviewer Bob Costas was. He appears informal and casual before you realize you've said more than you intended. The questions are well thought out. And Chris was such a great subject to interview bc she doesn't hold back, and she expresses herself very well. In contrast, Martina was aggressive on the court, but much more reserved during interviews.
I grew young seeing her matches commencing way back 1974 to 1989. A frank and honest revelation by Chris. The interview has given me immense pleasure Love from India
In 1972 I believe, Chris came to play an exhibition game with her younger sister at the historical club east of mid town birmingham, Al. I was playing on my high school team and was lucky enough to have my Dad find out about this match and we attended. Chris and I are the same age. It was great watching the sisters play but also obvious Chris was the better player. When we were milling around the lobby after the game, I saw a book where people, especially great tennis players would write their name and address down….(kinda like what people write their name in when attending marriage or funeral, except not the address part.) I looked and there it was, her address. I got a pen and paper and wrote it down. I felt I had struck an opportunity to write her and tell her that my family had a place in Fort Lauderdale and maybe on a soon to be trip down south that I would love to meet up and maybe hit some practice balls. It has been very comical for years now that I actually thought she would write me back and say, ‘sure! Next time you are headed down we can make plans to meet.’ I had shaken her hand after the exhibition game…that was step one. Besides the stands though not filled, their wasn’t many people there.and that made it fill more intimate from those who did attend. I mean, how often do you get a chance in a very small but historical club to see your idol play I wrote her and went to the mailbox every day for at least a month. I realized that there wouldn’t be a letter coming. Would have been nice but later when my prefrontal cortex had matured I realized it was a fun thought/request, but she was so deep already in professional tennis I was never getting a letter from her. But hey..I had ‘maybe’ her real address and that was something to hang my hat on.❤️❤️😎😎!!!
I admire her forthright honesty in answering each question put to her. I definitely think 1 Goat should be given every 10 years. Chrissy in her time was definitely the greatest of all time during the era she succeeded and dominated.
She says she wished she could have been more emotional on court, like Connors or McEnroe, so it would have been more entertaining....but Chris was VERY entertaining. he beauty, grace, and self control were STUNNING
Absolute favorite, class act, great great champion… Chris is just a little older than I am and she was a superb tole model; I even had her poster in my room!
On a side note, since this interview touches on Jennifer Capriati, most folks don't know she also won a Gold medal in singles from the 92 Barcelona Olympics. Beating of all people, Steffi Graf in the final.
It's interesting to note that Chris and Martina even had the same haircut and color at this time. They were still competitive soul mates outside of the court.
It was just the style at the time. But you're correct they were competitive soul mates. It's an important part of their bond. They have long since moved on and great friends. The two built the sport together.
I don't care how many Grand Slam Titles Serena wins. Chris Evert is still the GOAT of women's tennis. She still holds the record for career winning percentage and it may never be approached.
@@Tommy2shoe811 - I have checked a couple of sources ( WTA All Time winning percentages and Wikipedia) and Evert has a 90% and Steffi second at .89% ( Navratilova is 3rd at .86%) Evert is the all time leader in Grand Slam Finals appearances with 34 ( winning 18). She has a career winning percentage against everyone she played except Navratilova( 37-43) Graf (6-8 ) and Tracy Austin (8-9).
@@jerrybrownell3633 Actually, Margaret Court had better than 91% in both her amateur days and her professional days, despite taking off several years while pregnant two or three times. They don't give Margaret the winning percentage crown in the open era because she allegedly "did not have enough matches", which is ridiculous because she won more than 500 in the open era (about the same as Bjorn Borg). Chris skipped TEN slam events while she was number one, including three FRENCH Opens (she was unbeatable on clay) and seven Australians. She did this because those tournaments were not considered as prestigious or important as some pro WTA events that were going on at the same time. The women were working hsrd to establish the professional game, and the big money tournaments in the States were a priority...and Chris won those tournaments, so in essence, she has the equivalent of something like 25 slams. Martina also skipped the Australian and the French several times. Chris also should be second to Steffi on the all-time list for weeks at number one because she had 70 or so weeks there BEFORE the computer ranking system was created, but the tennis writers all had her at number one. If you go by objective measure of who dominated their times, Margaret, Chris, Steffi, and Martina each have a solid case for number one. Serena is fifth. Martina had a 3 year stretch where she lost a total of five times, and she won more matches and tournaments than anyone. (almost double Serena's total in each. Chris is just behind her, but had more weeks at number one had a higher winning percentage, plus the unbelievable clay record. Margaret won 24 slams, a Grans Slam, and 64 total slam championships including doubles...and that winning percentage. Steffi had way more weeks at number one than anyone, even though she retired at 31, and her winning percentage is only a hair behind Chris, despite stiffer competition.
@@joemarshall4226 - I knew of Magaret Courts winning percentage but she only played about 37 matches per year- Evert played over 90 per year. Court played 641 career matches- Evert played 1555. Can't be sure but if Margaret had played even 1000 career matches I doubt her winning % would be over 90. She didn't play Martina Navratilova 57 times like Evert did. Evert's career record against Court was 9-4. Be assured I am not saying Court did not deserve her all time winning percentage but I also don't think she had the competition Evert had. Having said all that I realize we will never agree and I thank you for your input and your comment.
@@jerrybrownell3633 What is the source for the number of matches Margaret played? I saw somewhere that she played over 500 matches in the Open era alone(which would have put her at about 500 for the amateur era as well, since they were about the same length of time), giving her a total of more than 1000 matches. She also won or got to the final of the women's doubles and mixed doubles in almost every slam she played, so add on another four or five hundred matches.....She had four children, and stopped playing for each one, and she took off a year when she was first married before she had kids. I agree that the competition was tougher in the 80s, but it's tougher now than then. I am talking about who dominated her era the best.
Chris was right about a number of things in relation to Martina. The latter never really praised opponents who beat her, and always attributed her losses to something being wrong with herself. (The worst incident was at the 1982 US Open when she blew a 6-1, 3-1 lead to lose to Pam Shriver, and blamed it on sudden physical weakness due to toxoplasmosis she caught from a friend's cat!) Nancy Lieberman was indeed a toxic presence, but that was largely due to her and Martina being lovers at the time. She not only urged Martina to "hate" Chris so that she could play better against her, she was also the cause for Renee Richards, the coach who really changed Martina's game, getting fired. (The two did not get along).
I would just add that though Martina attributed her losses to her own well being, well that was definitely accurate. She was so far ahead of the other players. Pam Shriver was a terrific doubles player, but didn't have the same powerful tools or strategic sense that Martina had.
It's kind of interesting: Chris Evert first rose to #1 in women's tennis in the mid to late 70s through the early 80s, until Navratilova overtook her. She became known as the "Ice Princess" due to her reserved demeanor on court during matches, her focus and poise. It became known as a disparaging description of her, by her. During the same exact timeline, on the men's side, Bjorn Borg also rose to #1 of the men's game, and was as dominant. He too was known for having that expressionless poise and demeanor, of never losing his own emotions during matches. But this characteristic always seemed to be praised by the media as a positive for Borg, compared to it being framed as a negative towards Evert......
Sanctified57 Graf should be grateful Seles was attacked. And who can predict an immature child’s letdown until she made a comeback to win 3 Slams? So Jennifer clearly had the talent
Nancy Lieberman was wrong, like many people who think you need to hate in order to win - so WRONG ! It is thanks to your opponent that you get better, learn to adjust to their ball effects, zones and strategies, it makes you a much better player. I never needed to hate to win my matches, my different opponents helped me to become better and I had to find my inspiration in wanting to win, not hate was necessary.
Chris Evert is such a classy and amazing player, truly one of the best ever, but also person as well. She is so right on Martina. Like Chris, Martina is one of the best players ever, but one of the least gracious champions ever. Whenever Martina did lose a match, it was all about what was wrong with her. While classy Chris always gave full credit to the opponent.
Both women come across as very intelligent, polite, thoughtful people. I love their tennis analysis as well. Neither had it easy in this world, but i get the feeling that either one would be fun to hang out with....both are down-to-earth people with good senses of humor.
That's not really true, Chris exaggerated this part about Martina blaming on things for her losses and not giving credit to her opponents. I followed Martina's career throughout the 80s and I don't remember that was part of her character, I mean she probably did that a few times but at the level that Graf or Serena. What Martina is not given credit for is the fact that she applauds her opponents' winners more than anyone else in the game, even more than Chris and Chris is also very good at that!
@@guyinsf Thank you, I just stated about how often Martina shouts to good! When her opponent plays a good shot. This before I read your comment. I've never saw a player to this day do it as much. She played a game against Monica Seles and obviously there was a lot of praise for shots hit by Monica.
She has a few more wrinkles now, but she basically looks the same 30 years later. The predictions were all good ones. Steffi's second coming wouldn't have even happened if Seles had not been stabbed... that's a fact that everyone knows except for the deluded Graf fans.
i like her honesty here, in this interview. Chris was totally correct about the game levelling and lots of players being able to compete with and beat Steffi. if it were not for Monica being removed, Steffi might have stayed about but only as a top five player.
I don't care much about Graf one way or the other, I am a Williams fanboy all the way, but I will say you are wrong in that it is only deluded Seles fans like yourself or Selestials as well all call you in ridicule who think Seles was going to dominate tennis another decade without the stabbing or is even a GOAT candidate of any kind now. Selestials are the delusional ones, not Graf fans. Not even a Graf fan but apart from that Ilya idiot most of the ones I have seen are quite reasonable, something that will never be said about Selestials. As a Williams fan I know all about your inbreed group, Selestials even come on Williams videos and say they benefitted from the Seles stabbing, LOL!!!! Delusional as fuck.
@@adamlarsson3828 Graf didn't drop below #2 for even a week so "only as a top five player" is not really accurate. And I doubt Seles would have dominated forever with her dad soon to be sick with cancer and other problems regardless of the stabbing. For the record Chris predicted at the end of 92 Seles would not continue dominating as much as she did in 91 and 92 so if you think she is some amazing prophet or something that would be true too.
@@grantgoffin4774 Monica was the best player tennis had ever seen up to that point. Her ground strokes were incomparable, and her serve and volleys were steadily improving. There is no way we can be sure of what would have happened.....Steffi was still young, and was learning to improve her game....but we can be sure Monica would have been right there at the top for quite a while.....Kind of sad to see what happened to both Monica and Jennifer, but they made it through...i wish them the best now......at least each had one or two more runs to glory after their respective declines
@@joemarshall4226 "Monica was the best player tennis had ever seen up to that point." You are entitled your opinion but IMO Navratilova in 82-84 was easily better, and Graf of 87-89 was probably better too. Particularly Navratilova of 82-84 though. She beat Evert 13 times in a row. Imagine Seles beating another all time great 13 times in a row (Seles actually had a losing 2-3 record vs Graf during her dominance, and this was a subpar Graf losing nearly every match to Sabatini, for some comparision). Yeah exactly, never happening. Also Navratilova in 82-86 averaged 2 losses a year, and won 6 slams in a row at one point. Graf in 87-89 averaged 2 losses a year, and was 1 game from a double Grand Slam. Seles in her 2 best years 91 and 92 averaged 6 losses a year, and in her best year ever in 1992, lost to every other women in the top 6 atleat once, lost a slam final 6-2, 6-1, and never won a Wimbledon. So best player the world had ever seen, yeah, no. As for Capriati she was an insanely overhyped so called prodigy who was never that great, similar to Jaeger. It was good she made a comeback and won 3 slams, which was an overachievement for her. Look at her head to heads vs the best players: 1-10 vs Graf, 3-11 vs Davenport, 0-5 vs Venus. 2-6 vs baby Henin who wasn't even in her prime when they played, 3-7 vs Mauresmo a mere 2 slam winner, 1-3 vs an extremely old way past her prime Navratilova. Her only respectable ones (still losing) are vs Seles, Clijsters, Hingis, and Serena.
Well, you really never can say 100% who’s gonna win a match, cause everybody thought you “Chrissie “ was gonna win Wimbledon against evonne in 1982 ! So, props to Gabriel sabbatini for beating ugly steffi graff at the u.s. open that year! Maybe you shouldn’t commentate matches lol!
Navratilova would not be number 1 again, Jennifer wouldn't be number 1 but Seles...Unfortunately, Steffi was number 1 during that era.....Furthermore, Serena overtaked them all.
The interview also sidesteps the fact Chris's dad, Jimmy Evert, was the person responsible for building Jennifer's tennis game. That's why Capriati had such a solid foundation bc Jimmy was basically her coach from a young age. It was good to see Capriati finally reaching her potential, but had to leave the game and come back a decade later to accomplish her goal.
Always a pleasure to watch Chris Evert!
I'd forgotten what a great interviewer Bob Costas was. He appears informal and casual before you realize you've said more than you intended. The questions are well thought out.
And Chris was such a great subject to interview bc she doesn't hold back, and she expresses herself very well.
In contrast, Martina was aggressive on the court, but much more reserved during interviews.
well said. of the two interviews, i enjoyed and learnt much more from Chris' interview.
I grew young seeing her matches commencing way back 1974 to 1989.
A frank and honest revelation by Chris. The interview has given me immense pleasure
Love from India
In 1972 I believe, Chris came to play an exhibition game with her younger sister at the historical club east of mid town birmingham, Al. I was playing on my high school team and was lucky enough to have my Dad find out about this match and we attended. Chris and I are the same age. It was great watching the sisters play but also obvious Chris was the better player. When we were milling around the lobby after the game, I saw a book where people, especially great tennis players would write their name and address down….(kinda like what people write their name in when attending marriage or funeral, except not the address part.)
I looked and there it was, her address. I got a pen and paper and wrote it down. I felt I had struck an opportunity to write her and tell her that my family had a place in Fort Lauderdale and maybe on a soon to be trip down south that I would love to meet up and maybe hit some practice balls.
It has been very comical for years now that I actually thought she would write me back and say, ‘sure! Next time you are headed down we can make plans to meet.’
I had shaken her hand after the exhibition game…that was step one. Besides the stands though not filled, their wasn’t many people there.and that made it fill more intimate from those who did attend. I mean, how often do you get a chance in a very small but historical club to see your idol play
I wrote her and went to the mailbox every day for at least a month. I realized that there wouldn’t be a letter coming. Would have been nice but later when my prefrontal cortex had matured I realized it was a fun thought/request, but she was so deep already in professional tennis I was never getting a letter from her. But hey..I had ‘maybe’ her real address and that was something to hang my hat on.❤️❤️😎😎!!!
I admire her forthright honesty in answering each question put to her. I definitely think 1 Goat should be given every 10 years. Chrissy in her time was definitely the greatest of all time during the era she succeeded and dominated.
Such a class act! A great role model!
Gosh...what an interview. Wow.
My favorite interviewer is Costas
She says she wished she could have been more emotional on court, like Connors or McEnroe, so it would have been more entertaining....but Chris was VERY entertaining. he beauty, grace, and self control were STUNNING
Chris evert has so much class
is it all the marriages and divorces?
Absolute favorite, class act, great great champion… Chris is just a little older than I am and she was a superb tole model; I even had her poster in my room!
A pleasure to hear Chris Evert ever (!), great class inside outside the court.
On a side note, since this interview touches on Jennifer Capriati, most folks don't know she also won a Gold medal in singles from the 92 Barcelona Olympics.
Beating of all people, Steffi Graf in the final.
It's interesting to note that Chris and Martina even had the same haircut and color at this time. They were still competitive soul mates outside of the court.
Lol. I didn't notice that until you pointed it out.
every woman at every tennis match had this look back then.......
It was just the style at the time. But you're correct they were competitive soul mates. It's an important part of their bond. They have long since moved on and great friends. The two built the sport together.
Chrissie's SNL skit was actually not bad at all! Even quite funny.
Great interview.
I don't care how many Grand Slam Titles Serena wins. Chris Evert is still the GOAT of women's tennis. She still holds the record for career winning percentage and it may never be approached.
I think Steffi Graf has the best winning percentage
@@Tommy2shoe811 - I have checked a couple of sources ( WTA All Time winning percentages and Wikipedia) and Evert has a 90% and Steffi second at .89% ( Navratilova is 3rd at .86%) Evert is the all time
leader in Grand Slam Finals appearances with 34 ( winning 18). She has a career winning percentage against
everyone she played except Navratilova( 37-43) Graf (6-8 ) and Tracy Austin (8-9).
@@jerrybrownell3633 Actually, Margaret Court had better than 91% in both her amateur days and her professional days, despite taking off several years while pregnant two or three times. They don't give Margaret the winning percentage crown in the open era because she allegedly "did not have enough matches", which is ridiculous because she won more than 500 in the open era (about the same as Bjorn Borg). Chris skipped TEN slam events while she was number one, including three FRENCH Opens (she was unbeatable on clay) and seven Australians. She did this because those tournaments were not considered as prestigious or important as some pro WTA events that were going on at the same time. The women were working hsrd to establish the professional game, and the big money tournaments in the States were a priority...and Chris won those tournaments, so in essence, she has the equivalent of something like 25 slams. Martina also skipped the Australian and the French several times. Chris also should be second to Steffi on the all-time list for weeks at number one because she had 70 or so weeks there BEFORE the computer ranking system was created, but the tennis writers all had her at number one. If you go by objective measure of who dominated their times, Margaret, Chris, Steffi, and Martina each have a solid case for number one. Serena is fifth. Martina had a 3 year stretch where she lost a total of five times, and she won more matches and tournaments than anyone. (almost double Serena's total in each. Chris is just behind her, but had more weeks at number one had a higher winning percentage, plus the unbelievable clay record. Margaret won 24 slams, a Grans Slam, and 64 total slam championships including doubles...and that winning percentage. Steffi had way more weeks at number one than anyone, even though she retired at 31, and her winning percentage is only a hair behind Chris, despite stiffer competition.
@@joemarshall4226 - I knew of Magaret Courts winning percentage but she only played about 37 matches per
year- Evert played over 90 per year. Court played 641 career matches- Evert played 1555. Can't be sure but if Margaret had played even 1000 career matches I doubt her winning % would be over 90. She didn't play
Martina Navratilova 57 times like Evert did. Evert's career record against Court was 9-4. Be assured I am not saying Court did not deserve her all time winning percentage but I also don't think she had the competition Evert had. Having said all that I realize we will never agree and I thank you for your input and
your comment.
@@jerrybrownell3633 What is the source for the number of matches Margaret played? I saw somewhere that she played over 500 matches in the Open era alone(which would have put her at about 500 for the amateur era as well, since they were about the same length of time), giving her a total of more than 1000 matches. She also won or got to the final of the women's doubles and mixed doubles in almost every slam she played, so add on another four or five hundred matches.....She had four children, and stopped playing for each one, and she took off a year when she was first married before she had kids. I agree that the competition was tougher in the 80s, but it's tougher now than then. I am talking about who dominated her era the best.
Chris's era was the golden years of women's tennis.
Absolutely
There was a time when it was Chris and Jimmy Connors what a wonderful couple before Patty ,who took care of Jimmy and the family,,good for Jimmy!!!
Man, Ice queen or not, Chris was such a Babe back in the day. Is it just me or does she look like Vanna White here?
She was the first sexy tennis girl in my book....could have been the 14 year old hormones though
Since Chris is older than Vanna you have it backwards. White looks like Evert.
Dog
Chris did it kind of right the whole way through. She's had medical problems over the last several years which I feel bad for as a fan.
Beauty..skill n class...No doubt
A true Pro.
Chris was right about a number of things in relation to Martina. The latter never really praised opponents who beat her, and always attributed her losses to something being wrong with herself. (The worst incident was at the 1982 US Open when she blew a 6-1, 3-1 lead to lose to Pam Shriver, and blamed it on sudden physical weakness due to toxoplasmosis she caught from a friend's cat!) Nancy Lieberman was indeed a toxic presence, but that was largely due to her and Martina being lovers at the time. She not only urged Martina to "hate" Chris so that she could play better against her, she was also the cause for Renee Richards, the coach who really changed Martina's game, getting fired. (The two did not get along).
Just not true, there is so many clips of Martina, where you see and hear her say "to good" at shots from her opponents
I would just add that though Martina attributed her losses to her own well being, well that was definitely accurate. She was so far ahead of the other players. Pam Shriver was a terrific doubles player, but didn't have the same powerful tools or strategic sense that Martina had.
It's kind of interesting: Chris Evert first rose to #1 in women's tennis in the mid to late 70s through the early 80s, until Navratilova overtook her. She became known as the "Ice Princess" due to her reserved demeanor on court during matches, her focus and poise. It became known as a disparaging description of her, by her.
During the same exact timeline, on the men's side, Bjorn Borg also rose to #1 of the men's game, and was as dominant. He too was known for having that expressionless poise and demeanor, of never losing his own emotions during matches. But this characteristic always seemed to be praised by the media as a positive for Borg, compared to it being framed as a negative towards Evert......
Well she was wrong about Steffi Graf, who continued to be right at the top. She was also wrong about Capriatti, who slipped into obscurity
capriati still got a few grand slams and got back to #1 after graf retired
Sanctified57 Graf should be grateful Seles was attacked. And who can predict an immature child’s letdown until she made a comeback to win 3 Slams? So Jennifer clearly had the talent
Yes, if you call world #1, 3 majors, Olympic gold and Hall of Fame obscurity!
She probably wasn't that wrong about Steffi. If Monica didn't get stabbed Steffi might not have gone on to dominate like she did.
I personally feel Princess Diana and Chris Evert have similar looks.
You think Chris Evert looks like a gold digger?
@@cush6827 is it coz she has a golden hue in this video?
@@cyriljacob4839 No. It is coz Diana married a man she did not love for his riches.
Yes, I am also of the same view.
@@iwantafennec9577 No. Hitches was right about this horrible person.
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Nancy Lieberman was wrong, like many people who think you need to hate in order to win - so WRONG ! It is thanks to your opponent that you get better, learn to adjust to their ball effects, zones and strategies, it makes you a much better player. I never needed to hate to win my matches, my different opponents helped me to become better and I had to find my inspiration in wanting to win, not hate was necessary.
she is concerned about working 5 hours at age 35, clearly these people live in a different world than the rest of us
Chris Evert is such a classy and amazing player, truly one of the best ever, but also person as well. She is so right on Martina. Like Chris, Martina is one of the best players ever, but one of the least gracious champions ever. Whenever Martina did lose a match, it was all about what was wrong with her. While classy Chris always gave full credit to the opponent.
Both women come across as very intelligent, polite, thoughtful people. I love their tennis analysis as well. Neither had it easy in this world, but i get the feeling that either one would be fun to hang out with....both are down-to-earth people with good senses of humor.
That's not really true, Chris exaggerated this part about Martina blaming on things for her losses and not giving credit to her opponents. I followed Martina's career throughout the 80s and I don't remember that was part of her character, I mean she probably did that a few times but at the level that Graf or Serena. What Martina is not given credit for is the fact that she applauds her opponents' winners more than anyone else in the game, even more than Chris and Chris is also very good at that!
@@guyinsf Thank you, I just stated about how often Martina shouts to good! When her opponent plays a good shot. This before I read your comment. I've never saw a player to this day do it as much. She played a game against Monica Seles and obviously there was a lot of praise for shots hit by Monica.
Chrissie.....classy lady
I think Bob is posing here and wanted Chris to see him as attractive intellectually and Physically. LOL
Could be...I would too
another example of bob's intellect being perhaps the greatest since galileo's.
Good predicted from a beautiful legend chris... martina will not #1 again & jennifer will become #1... but steffi still #1 a couple years later 😇
It took Jennifer a decade to get to number one
Nice mullet
I would watch them play tennis in Hyderabad television📺
She has a few more wrinkles now, but she basically looks the same 30 years later. The predictions were all good ones. Steffi's second coming wouldn't have even happened if Seles had not been stabbed... that's a fact that everyone knows except for the deluded Graf fans.
i like her honesty here, in this interview.
Chris was totally correct about the game levelling and lots of players being able to compete with and beat Steffi. if it were not for Monica being removed, Steffi might have stayed about but only as a top five player.
I don't care much about Graf one way or the other, I am a Williams fanboy all the way, but I will say you are wrong in that it is only deluded Seles fans like yourself or Selestials as well all call you in ridicule who think Seles was going to dominate tennis another decade without the stabbing or is even a GOAT candidate of any kind now. Selestials are the delusional ones, not Graf fans. Not even a Graf fan but apart from that Ilya idiot most of the ones I have seen are quite reasonable, something that will never be said about Selestials. As a Williams fan I know all about your inbreed group, Selestials even come on Williams videos and say they benefitted from the Seles stabbing, LOL!!!! Delusional as fuck.
@@adamlarsson3828 Graf didn't drop below #2 for even a week so "only as a top five player" is not really accurate. And I doubt Seles would have dominated forever with her dad soon to be sick with cancer and other problems regardless of the stabbing. For the record Chris predicted at the end of 92 Seles would not continue dominating as much as she did in 91 and 92 so if you think she is some amazing prophet or something that would be true too.
@@grantgoffin4774 Monica was the best player tennis had ever seen up to that point. Her ground strokes were incomparable, and her serve and volleys were steadily improving. There is no way we can be sure of what would have happened.....Steffi was still young, and was learning to improve her game....but we can be sure Monica would have been right there at the top for quite a while.....Kind of sad to see what happened to both Monica and Jennifer, but they made it through...i wish them the best now......at least each had one or two more runs to glory after their respective declines
@@joemarshall4226 "Monica was the best player tennis had ever seen up to that point." You are entitled your opinion but IMO Navratilova in 82-84 was easily better, and Graf of 87-89 was probably better too. Particularly Navratilova of 82-84 though. She beat Evert 13 times in a row. Imagine Seles beating another all time great 13 times in a row (Seles actually had a losing 2-3 record vs Graf during her dominance, and this was a subpar Graf losing nearly every match to Sabatini, for some comparision). Yeah exactly, never happening. Also Navratilova in 82-86 averaged 2 losses a year, and won 6 slams in a row at one point. Graf in 87-89 averaged 2 losses a year, and was 1 game from a double Grand Slam. Seles in her 2 best years 91 and 92 averaged 6 losses a year, and in her best year ever in 1992, lost to every other women in the top 6 atleat once, lost a slam final 6-2, 6-1, and never won a Wimbledon. So best player the world had ever seen, yeah, no.
As for Capriati she was an insanely overhyped so called prodigy who was never that great, similar to Jaeger. It was good she made a comeback and won 3 slams, which was an overachievement for her. Look at her head to heads vs the best players: 1-10 vs Graf, 3-11 vs Davenport, 0-5 vs Venus. 2-6 vs baby Henin who wasn't even in her prime when they played, 3-7 vs Mauresmo a mere 2 slam winner, 1-3 vs an extremely old way past her prime Navratilova. Her only respectable ones (still losing) are vs Seles, Clijsters, Hingis, and Serena.
She was wrong about Graf
Not really. It took Monica Seles getting stabbed for her to dominate the tour again.
@@DaggerMan11 I'm sure she knew the stabbing would occur
@@robertk2007 i'm sure she didn't.
Chrissie says you know more than any other human being on Earth. Sad.
Joseph Joel What’s more sad is someone who has to point out something so irrelevant.
She is so full of herself 😂😂
Love her hate him
Well, you really never can say 100% who’s gonna win a match, cause everybody thought you “Chrissie “ was gonna win Wimbledon against evonne in 1982 ! So, props to Gabriel sabbatini for beating ugly steffi graff at the u.s. open that year! Maybe you shouldn’t commentate matches lol!
Navratilova would not be number 1 again, Jennifer wouldn't be number 1 but Seles...Unfortunately, Steffi was number 1 during that era.....Furthermore, Serena overtaked them all.
Jennifer DID reach #1 on the computer (3 GS singles titles and an Olympic Gold Medal over Steffi). See Wikipedia.
Yes Monica reached number 1, and it would have been monica as well who would be number 1 in that era had she not been stabbed.
The interview also sidesteps the fact Chris's dad, Jimmy Evert, was the person responsible for building Jennifer's tennis game.
That's why Capriati had such a solid foundation bc Jimmy was basically her coach from a young age.
It was good to see Capriati finally reaching her potential, but had to leave the game and come back a decade later to accomplish her goal.
Serena blurred the line between men's and women's tennis.
Of course Martina hated her. Straight pretty American loved by men and women alike.
Omg Martina didn't hate Chris because for those reasons! Braindead comment
Once the big butch lesbians appeared, Chris was toast 🙄