Chris Evert d. Hana Mandlikova - 1982 US Open (Record 6th USO)
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2013
- Chrissie wins her record-breaking 6th US Open ~ more than any other woman in Open tennis history ~ by beating Hana Mandlikova in the final, 6-3 6-1. Commentary from Pat Summerall, Tony Trabert & Virginia Wade.
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I love Virginia Wade as a commentator. Even today I liked her commentary on the 2013 US Open. She talks about the match underway, doesn't go off on tangents as so many other commentators do who seem to be more interested in talking about tangential subjects than the match they are calling. Also I'm glad Chris mentioned the beauty of Hana's tennis. I was amazed how much pace she had on her strokes using a wooden racket.
What a lady...what a champ...never be another!!!
Watching Hana play is pure pleasure ! When her game is on (which unfortunately was often NOT the case), it's really poetry in motion. She owned every shot in the book. Finally Hana got her due in 85 with two consecutive three-setter wins against Chris and Martina. That Open final against Martina showed why Hana is such a fascinating player when her game is ON.
it is amazing how fluid the hana strokes were...pure class...
Mandlikova had a lot of power on her ground strokes. Evert of course played a wonderful match and she truly is the princess of women's tennis
That was one of the reasons she was never going to win that match trying to play it out at the baseline against Chris
Hana had such smooth groundstrokes and a natural volley. She used the short angles of the court so effectively. Her only problem was that she played during the Evert/Navratilova era, where titles were so hard to come by for anyone else.
That Mandlikova had some killer strokes. Evert had control over that ball that is not possible in today’s game with today’s super powered rackets.
I think Chris got more frustrations in Wimbledon where she won 3 titles out of 10 finals.
Well 5 of those were to Navratilova, the Wimbledon GOAT. 1 was as a 18 year old rookie vs Billie Jean King, another all timer on grass and Wimbledon. The worst loss as to Goolagong, who has won 6 grass majors and is 4-4 lifetime vs Evert on grass.
@@travisstrong5389and Chris was 3:2 in slam finals against Goolagong. Evonne did play the best match or matches of her life then . She beat Hana , tracy and Chris. Evert forces her opponents to play their best in order to beat her. Chris’s standard was off that first set against Evonne but she had several chances up 4-3,6-5 and played a sloppy tie break . Evonne never gave up , concentrated better than Chris that day and even though on paper Chris should’ve won , Evonne when at her best understands grass better than Chris . Wade played the match of her life in 77 . These wins although hard to take at the time have since rewatched and Wade , Goolagong earned their wins . Evert should’ve put Martina away up a set and 4 break points at 3-3. Martina was so eager and Chris walked through that match as if expecting Martina to fall. Only when down 2-0 in third did the vintage Every appear for 4 games then Martina took it to another level serving.
@@travisstrong5389but evert is 3-2 in slam finals Vs Goolagong . Had Goolagong reached her seeding more often or had pulled more upsets to reach the final especially in years she played and not pregnant Chris record would’ve been more demonstrative . You could count on Chris not losing to lesser ranked players to reach finals . She played 56 slam events , won 18 , finalist 16 times 18 times SF and only lost 4 times before sf( 2 were QF , 3 rd round in 83 to Jordan when she was sick and to Vicario in 88 French with a balky knee and heel spur. Vicario won French couple yrs later. Goolagong was a artist and when she was on as in 80 W final played smartest match of her life .
Nice handshake, Hana. She blew her off after she just set a record. Classy.
I think Chris beats Hana so soundly through intimidation, an overwhelming occasion and of course her tremendous poise and skill. Hana's win over Tracy Austin earlier in the tournament was on a wind whipped day when neither player could play their best. Also Tracy, unfortunately, was on the brink of an injury induced retirement. Two years earlier and Hana would have had her head handed to her on a platter by Austin. All three ladies were amazing players. Much more intriguing and intelligent than today's listless roster of hulking, colorless women's players.
i also think chris could handle hana better then tracy for the most part because of a few reasons. i'm sure hana used the same tactics against both, but evert had a far far better midcourt game then austin, so dropshotting and hitting short balls wasn't as good as a tactic against evert then it was against austin. austin was fast and quick, but her actual footwork i thought was suspect. evert had spectacular footwork and anticipation and getting to any drops or short balls she had more variety and experience than austin on what to do with the ball.... similarly evert had more variety in her ground game than austin, like hana tried to do to both evert and austin mixing up her groundies and keeping them from getting a groove, evert did the same to hana mixing up her groundstrokes with subtle changes of pace and length and angles,and of course placement and steadiness, to have hana overhit, go for too much, make errors or not sure what shot to hit with her vast repertoire of shots sometimes having too many options is not good... austin hitting her hard flat groundstrokes all the time i don't think worried hana and didn't give hana enough second looks, second guesses...and add in that evert was a master, perhaps THEE master technician on court craft...
while austin for the most past was at her best in 1980 (more so the 1st 6 months) i DO NOT BELIEVE she would have wiped hana on a platter.. hana had already beaten martina, taken evert to the edge, possibly should have beaten goolagong at wimbledone being up a set and a break, etcetera. i believe hana would be a tough match up for austin no matter what year...
You are both right. Evert 'joined the dots' so much better than Austin, and was much more accomplished from all areas of the court. That said, Mandlikova was a beautifully fluent player who rightfully had her fair share of big wins in a super tough era.
thomas schmitz Think about it. Evert had read this script before, only the title was 'Evonne' . Hana's game was not dissimilar to Goolagong's nor were her extremes both in brilliance, followed by inexplicable lapses into streams of errors. Evert was a great tactician with an almost clinical mind for odds and probability. She won't get flustered very often and she won't be hustled by streaks of golden play. Austin was a little more green and dealing with an opponent so impossible to predict. It takes maturity to stay in your own game and mind.
Hana also had a losing record against Tracy.
But by 82 Hana had two big 3-set wins in the slams against Tracy, at the French and here the U.S. Open.
Also by 82 Tracy was on the way out of the game due to onset injuries.
Can someone post the Qtrs match bw Shriver vs Martina? In case anyone is wondering why Martina isn't in the Final, she got upset by Pam in the Qtrs.
Afterwards Navratilova ungraciously said reason why she lost that match was bc her blood was tainted by Taxoplasmosis, some type of allergic reaction to CATS!! This wouldn't be the first time Martina would have an excuse after an upset loss. But I recall seeing points from her match vs Shriver, and it was helluva match! The match of the tournament.
Also by this time in 82, the Evert - Navratilova friendship was heavily strained by Nancy Lieberman's intrusion into teaching Martina to "hate" Chris on and off the court.
Martina at that stage could still be really erratic and somewhat eccentric. Like her countrywomen, Hana Mandlikova and Jana Novotna, Martina had a tendency to be very mentally inconsistent and somewhat nervous, losing matches she should have won. Her collapse to Shriver in 82 was very similar to the way she lost to Austin in 81, after having won a very easy first set. The scars were still there so she may have wanted some kind of excuse. The US Open in particular really seemed to haunt Martina until she finally won in 83. Her reaction when she won showed how much it had been bothering her.
Nancy Lieberman always look hateful, spiteful and mean. Never liked her and still don't like her.
This was a superb win for Evert, to claim her final US Open title, and a stunning 6th. One might think the result was never in doubt (especially with her Daddy watching, a rarity-very nice) but she had to produce laser-ball to beat Hana, and she did produce that.
Hana Mandlikova was a truly gifted player, but everything about her and everything about her game always reminded me of a grumpy, anxious porter waiting to take someone’s luggage from the car into the hotel. Here to there. Here to there.
She was just piece-by-piece. Too stiff. The sum of the parts did not always equal the whole with Mandlikova. The serve-and-volley version of Tracy Austin, I guess.
Hana was exceptional, indeed, but if all her paint-by-numbers weren’t wet on the brush, she could lay a massive egg, like she did in this boring-ass final. Evert just had to be sharp. And she sure as hell was.
Hana’s considerable talent was apparent, win or lose.
Some years later, Virginia Wade pointed out that the major reason Hana had such a bad head to head against Chris was because Hana didn't quite know how to play Chris. Chris's consistency made Hana stay in the points, and Hana doesn't seem to have known how to deal with that other than to try and hit winners. In short, Chris seems to have pushed Hana into playing really low percentage tennis.
agree love virginia wade's commentary! as well as ALL other british tennis commentators! they are extremely knowledgeable, know when to talk and when not to, and speak in crisp intelligent tones. love ginny! listen up carillo, the mcenroe's. carillo got her "career" because of who she knew & no other back then former female player wanted to commentate as a career & the macs ONLY got their jobs because john's fame & mouth & patrick because he lucked into having the last name mcenroe
Hana was one of the top players at the time who would rather play against Martina than against Chris, even during the time Martina was firmly on top over Chris.
Can be clearly seen the CSSR school of perfect fluent tennis technique (Navratilova, Mandlikova, Korda, Lendl, Sukova, etc.)
Chris moved better here gliding quickly to each shot, her body is over the ball on every shot. It took Martina to rush her out of position. It took 2 yrs of training to get to Martina’s shots then she could strategize . By the time she chasedMartina Chris had accomplished so much . She didn’t retire as Borg did once he believed he wouldn’t win most of his matches vs McEnroe. Chris took her lumps for two years at 30. Old back then . Goolagong is a legend but evert is a super legend.
The powerful groundstrokes of Evert were too much for overmatched Hana. Hana played her absolute best but it was not enough to come close to even a very subpar Evert.
Hana is my favorite player to watch. There's something very Federesque about her strokes and footwork:)
spartyutube I agree completely, except she is fragile mentally.
Yes, good call. Or one can say Federer is quite Hanaesque. Mandlikova was an elegant and gutsy player - an incredible shotmaker.
Evert is an all time fav of mine but Hana was a shot maker. The angles she creates off her back head or Wawrinkaesque
Never won another. In her later years, This was the major that induced most frustration. Of the 4 times she failed to reach the semis of a major, two were coming up in QF losses at the Open to McNeil & Garrison. She had to default 1 semifinal to Graf, and lost to Hana & Sukova in others. Martina in the 2 finals she reached.
but she won it 6 times? do you really think she felt frustration? and wasn't her win/loss here the best of open era?
@@jeffreyturner7678 I think it meant more to her because it was her national open.
@@jeffreyturner7678 I think the great players want to win everything. Having won six, it must have been frustrating when she started to find she wasn't winning any more.
@@th8257Chris still reached the 83 , 84 open final , won AO in 84 then won French 85, reached her last W final in 85, lost to Hana at Oppenheimer in 85 but spo did Martina . Chris won French 86, sf loss to Hana 7-6,7-5 then lost to Sukova in 86 open sf mainly due to a bad knee. She didn’t play rest of 86 rehabbing her knee and played. Superbly against shriver I’m Dallas 87. Divorced from Lloyd and now 33 had up and down days mentally. She played two great W Sf against Martina 97,88 then beat Martina at 88 Ao losing to Graf 6-1,7-6 almost winning second set up 6-5 30- all after being down 5-1 in second set . She knew she could win 5 straight games against Graf which kept her playing
In 88. After a disappointing 88 - pulling out of an open sf due to a stomach virus and losing on a questionable call at W Sf serving more for Martina 30-40 at 5-6 decided 89 would be her last year . 3 consecutive losses in tournament finals Graf Sabatini and Seles in Houston which I think sealed the deal she knew it was time to walk away . Ironic that the last tournament win of. Gross career was beating Seles 6-,6-2. She reminded all of us what a great player she was one last time . Vintage Chris . McNeil snd Zina played the match of their lives and won at the open against a weary sun par Chris . Chris had competed since she was 8 and retired at 34 . Her last 5! Matched all won in fed cup just a couple of months shy of 35 th bday . Chris was always a factor at the open - even the last one . She and Serena have the record 6 title win record . Chris holds record of 7 French wins and w 10 Wimbledon finals . - 5 of which were losses to the greatest grass court player of all time - 9 time Wimbledon champion Navratilova .
@@lenwelch2195 The match of Zina's life was the Wimbledon semi final vs Graf, followed by the Wimbledon quarter final vs Seles, the next year. The Evert match and win was good, but below those two.
interesting how mandlikova could beat austin earlier in the tournament, and yet lose soundly to evert here in the final? granted austin was in "decline" a bit but still a tough player although hana in 82 had her number it seems in tight 3 setters, having beaten austin in 3 at the french. what better prep to play evert then having played austin a few days earlier yes? hana used the same tactics i would suspect against evert that she had with austin, yet evert whipped her.
Like Stove her coach was quoted as saying by the commentators "She is such an artist, but artists can't paint beautiful picturs everyday."
1982 marked the end of the old style of tennis with wooden rackets . Chris won 6-3,6-1 and looked unbeatable only to be beaten 6-1,6-3 the next year to an improved Navratilova . It took Chris two years of losing every match to Martina to improve her game to match her in French 85 .
Is advent the word you're looking for there? It means the start. I think you probably mean the end
@@th8257Chris in two years improved a greater percentage to even challenge Martina from 84 open on. And tennis has jumped greatly from Martina’s time from Graf to Serena
@@th8257I’m not looking for anything from you. Offer when asked till then keep it quiet.
Hana is one of my favorite players. So creative. She had power, touch, variety and athleticism. I call her game the precursor to Justine Henin
I wont disagree
both are belting the ball pretty good here. people who have never played with a wood racket simply don't understand the GARGATUAN difference between rackets then and now. it's like comparing titanium/graphite/steel to styrofoam! back then they could wallop the ball and STILL used actual tactics and point construction! would rather watch matches from this era ANYDAY over the bashing 50 winners, 40 errors in a match victor defeating the 49 winners, 41 errors opponent!
One loss to King, one to Evonne and all the rest were at the hands of Martina
Evonne never won the US Open - four finals in a row
@@damiencampbell8320 I must have been referring to Evert's losses in Wimbledon finals for some reason , because the only way this post of mine makes sense. Evert's losses in US Open finals be the same except it would exclude Goolagong and include Austin.
her last u.s. open win.83 lost bady to martina, 84 should have beaten martina,85 lost to a inspired mandlikova, 86 semi lost to sukova who played well, but beat a very subpar evert (evert dealing with a bad knee?) 87 upset by lori mcneil who always gave her and others problems & by 87 evert was having those "bad days" more as she aged and got closer to retirement, 88 had to default semi to graf because of sickness, 89 great win over seles, then had one of those 'bad day" loss to garrison.
mbblover 89 was disappointing. But I just confirmed it was definitely time to call it a career. In the final stages she could be brilliant one day and I’m just not into it the next the mental was gone at that point after all those years
This was the 1st of 3-in-a-row Majors for Chrissie, but at the 1983 Wimbledon, they refused to delay her match (she was sick), and she lost to Kathy Jordan, thus denying Evert her chance to hold all 4 Majors at once (non-calendar year).
If you think Evert had a chance against Martina at '83 Wimbledon...boy are you living in fantasy land. I actually think that losing early prevented her from receiving another humiliating defeat.
@@FlabbyTitmuss "...another humiliating defeat"?? I love Martina, but I would say Chris humiliated her in Chris' 6-0, 6-0 annihilation over Martina at Amelia Island 1981.
@@fjosephgonzales6870 Of course Chris did. But that was 1981, and I was referring to 1983 as you know. The idea that Evert could have beaten prime Martina at W 1983 is not credible.
That champions speech though was not her best… 😅
I feel like Hana has no real strategy when she plays Chris, even in the rare wins. I guess Chris was just too rock steady for her, and she didn't know what to do against that.
I think this is when Chris was at her best. I didn't like her after this match. But hearing recent comments from Hana about American Junior players being lazy, spoiled, and aren't willing to work hard. Said that Jana Novotna was fat and lazy before she coached her. I'm glad to see her get thumped now. I thoroughly enjoy it. Particularly when Martina said that Hana didn't work hard during her career. Too busy of a sex life.
Hana had a really odd forehand.
so did everyone back then.
Slow motion tennis, but that was 33 years ago