she had gotten into a big fight with her mom following this match because Hingis was an ungrateful twat. Melanie Molitor, her mom, did her scheduling, coached her practice sessions, strung her rackets and everything and her mom had to teach her a lesson so she didn't show up for the tournament and allowed Hingis to fend for herself as she was an adult at that point. Clearly, it didnt turn out that well so Hingis apologized after realizing how important her mom was to her and they made amends and continued the partnership.
You are watching an 18 year old who had likely been conditioned from an extremely young age to live and breath only tennis and winning at it. Years of pent up emotion, rage, exhaustion, and who knows what else collided in this moment. As the event went on and Hingis became more and more unhinged it seemed apparent that this could be a turning point not just in the match but in her career as a whole and it certainly ended up being. Gone was the dominant grand slam champion (she never would win another singles grand slam event) and within 3 years was out of the sport. She came back of course but never the same.
@@umbertlambert2113 Steffi left because she didn't have anything more to prove. And is generally considered the GOAT today, even 25 years later. Thank God for that.
@@carrerau7138 WRONG. The GOAT is Margaret Court who has two more slams than Graf. And anyway, it was Gunther Parche, and not Graf that won all the slams from 1993 onwards. Graf's laurel rest on the evil machinations of a deranged fan. Graf is pure evil.
Was Serena not #1 at the USO 2009, 2011, 2018? I looked it up - indeed Serena was NOT #1 before those three USOs! So you were right - Chucky has the honor to have displayed the worst sportsmanship ever of a world #1!
Yes, Graf thought she couldn't lose after this match and decided not to retire. Lindsay Davenport whopped her ass in the Wimbledon final after this, and forced her into retirement.
That match literally ended Hingis career. She never recovered from that. Indeed legend like Tracy Austin & Chris Evert put Hingis as a heavy favorite to win that match vs Steffi. But as a viewer I always believed something might happen which would turned that match.
Steffi Graf había ganando 5 RG y eliminado a Davenport ex número 1 y Seles ex número 1, una experta en regresar para ganar. gran error de Martina subestimar a la 22 campeona de GS. La mejor Graf!!!
Hingis was clearly a spoilt, arrogant child: she used to make remarks that she was better than anyone else, that she had the "right" to choose when her games start (she didn't like early games as she 'was not a morning person'), she used to taunt her opponents before the matches, she got what she deserved.
In front of our screens we are all experts and better than these extraordinary people, but I always wondered why people are so keen in judging Martina in RG 1999? What do we know of the pressure she felt? She was 18…personally I have taken tons of bad decisions way after that age. In a coverage from Swiss TV (she as much more popular abroad than in Switzerland) they portrayed her she said she did a mistake during that Final. Everyone was expecting her to win and she played incredible during the whole tournament, I just think we have no idea of what she might have felt.
I stll do.... haha so true, no need to be so harsh, she is human just like anyone and more than human in the sense we do not face such pressures day in day out!
Why not judge a professional tennis player who behaves like an idiot on the big stage? We don't execute her, we don't jail her - we just call her a classless brat. Hingis was one of the two most classless top players of the open era.
The more I learn about top tennis players, the more I realise how alike they are. Even the greatest champions can be quite arrogant, have had their meltdowns on court, breaking rackets, arguing with umpires and line judges, faking injuries and illness, taking unnecessary medical timeouts, long toilet breaks, retiring just a few points away from defeat, etc. If anyone thinks that there is a single top player that wouldn't use any advantage, fair or unfair, to either win or justify defeat - think again!
Steffi has never broken a racquet in the 13 years that I watched her play, never argued with line judges and umpires save for asking and voicing her displeasure, never took gamesmanship toilet breaks and med timeouts, tank a match. So she’s not one of your normal type player/champion.
@@markjames1127 Steffi Graf and Federer and Nadal on the good side, real ladies and gentlemen, Hingis, Serena and Djokovic, Zverev (Russian parents), Medvedev, Tsitispas, Kyrgios and many more on the other side. We Germans love Graf, we despise Hingis, and we are not happy with Zverev!
@@broncoguy4862French public are vulgar af. Why don’t they shut up. I remembered how they destroyed Coria just because they want the losing side to make a comeback.
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Reminds me of Naomi Osaka after her '18 USO final against Serena.
I mean did she? She won the first set, was a break up to start the 2nd set and yet she was so dramatic over an out call at 0-0 into the 3rd game?? You're telling me simply for her being so dramatic here was enough to spiral her out of control and have Steffi win the 2nd and 3rd set?
@@fartfacemuldoon5657 Tennis pros have had to deal with bad calls for decades. Ask McEnroe. Ask Serena. Hingis' behavior was outrageous, she's lucky she didn't get defaulted. And no, we don't know if she was right about the call or not, it wasn't clear. And stop with the weird conspiracy "everyone was against her"...that didn't happen until Hingis showed her bratty behavior.
So many negative comments about Hingis and her behavior. Yes terrible behavior. Of course. But no one knows what it was like to live her life. Tennis is a lonely sport. You travel all year with a few close friends or family if you’re lucky. She was 18. This is a lonely kid with no real friends. She didn’t go to prom. She didn’t go on dates. Didn’t live the carefree life of a teenager. She was destroying the best players in the world while you and I were begging to borrow our parents car. Can’t even imagine the pressure cooker she lived in day after day. It was bound to explode. Show some empathy.
Ese partido fue un abuso e injusto de la tribuna..porque en el tennis afecta directamente al jugador..porque eran miles de personas abucheando a una Jugadora de Tennis que estaba pasando por su mejor momento.
@@fabriceborioli4032 She was sh**ing her pants. She knew what she had said about Steffi. And she knew what people would say if she were to lose this match. And please don't insult me by indicating that I might have reacted in the same way as a 18-year-old. I would not.
Yes, hingis was. And some guy saying worst sportsmanship in earler response. , he should look at graf. She knew the ball was in ,,, hows that for bad sportsmanship.
It genuinely bugs me how many of these videos don't acknowledge that Martina was right about the line call. Clearly in. She should have just moved past that and continued dominating, but she was right.
It wasn't clearly in. If it was, the point would be hers. Regardless, her behavior following that call was outrageous, and started the meltdown that ultimately saw her fade from relevance. She would go on to lose in the first round of Wimbledon a month later and then lose the US Open final to Serena. She would not win another major.
If you suggest that you could “clearly“ see from that faraway perspective that this ball was in you are a liar. Anyway, what has this to do with Hingis‘ terrible behavior? You think that was the first controversial call in the history of tennis?
Steffi Graf was and will always be my fav. Tennis player ❤
Hingis's next Grand Slam match after this was against Jelena Dokic, which she lost 6-2, 6-0. That score still blows me away.
First round of Wimbledon about 3 weeks later.
she had gotten into a big fight with her mom following this match because Hingis was an ungrateful twat. Melanie Molitor, her mom, did her scheduling, coached her practice sessions, strung her rackets and everything and her mom had to teach her a lesson so she didn't show up for the tournament and allowed Hingis to fend for herself as she was an adult at that point. Clearly, it didnt turn out that well so Hingis apologized after realizing how important her mom was to her and they made amends and continued the partnership.
You are watching an 18 year old who had likely been conditioned from an extremely young age to live and breath only tennis and winning at it. Years of pent up emotion, rage, exhaustion, and who knows what else collided in this moment. As the event went on and Hingis became more and more unhinged it seemed apparent that this could be a turning point not just in the match but in her career as a whole and it certainly ended up being. Gone was the dominant grand slam champion (she never would win another singles grand slam event) and within 3 years was out of the sport. She came back of course but never the same.
The word you are looking for is 'breathe'.
She was WORLD NUMBER ONE for three more years after this!! She was TRULY A FORCE OF NATURE in court!
Hingis remained world no. 1 while Giraf was FINISHED. Thank God for that.
@@umbertlambert2113 Steffi left because she didn't have anything more to prove.
And is generally considered the GOAT today, even 25 years later. Thank God for that.
@@carrerau7138 WRONG. The GOAT is Margaret Court who has two more slams than Graf. And anyway, it was Gunther Parche, and not Graf that won all the slams from 1993 onwards. Graf's laurel rest on the evil machinations of a deranged fan. Graf is pure evil.
And she never won the French Open after that, in fact she never won another grand slam again...
In singles.
@@alexredekop7073 yes, the one that matters... in doubles, you cannot claim full credit for your win...
@@alexredekop7073Like anyone really cares about doubles.
Hingis never won the French Open period. The closest she came was losing to Iva Majoli, then the excuses started to flow like cheap wine.
@@broncoguy4862Excuses? Why would she excuse to weenie ridiculous fans 😂
This match is 25 years old in June and still remains the worst display of sportsmanship I have ever witnessed from a world number 1
Was Serena not #1 at the USO 2009, 2011, 2018?
I looked it up - indeed Serena was NOT #1 before those three USOs!
So you were right - Chucky has the honor to have displayed the worst sportsmanship ever of a world #1!
shebwas 19. 💁
@@jtstrm That's even worse.
I presume you are talking about graf .. the ball was in,graf should have fessed upn
@@GrantSterley-k9j no i definitely mean Hingis. Her behaviour the whole match was a disgrace
It's normal that the crowd booed Hingis. She was arrogant and unrespectful of her opponent and of the public.
They went way over the top. It isn't a football match.
She thought she couldn’t lose……but she wasn’t above anyone.
Yes, Graf thought she couldn't lose after this match and decided not to retire. Lindsay Davenport whopped her ass in the Wimbledon final after this, and forced her into retirement.
That match literally ended Hingis career. She never recovered from that. Indeed legend like Tracy Austin & Chris Evert put Hingis as a heavy favorite to win that match vs Steffi.
But as a viewer I always believed something might happen which would turned that match.
That match and multiple ankle surgeries.
Austin?
Isn’t that this “expert“ who in 1982 said about 13-year-old Steffi “we have hundreds like her in the States“? 😂
lol, you edited it and STILL managed to truck it up.
Steffi Graf había ganando 5 RG y eliminado a Davenport ex número 1 y Seles ex número 1, una experta en regresar para ganar. gran error de Martina subestimar a la 22 campeona de GS. La mejor Graf!!!
That ended the arrogance and confidence of Hingis , it’s almost how life is for everyone.
Hingis was clearly a spoilt, arrogant child: she used to make remarks that she was better than anyone else, that she had the "right" to choose when her games start (she didn't like early games as she 'was not a morning person'), she used to taunt her opponents before the matches, she got what she deserved.
In front of our screens we are all experts and better than these extraordinary people, but I always wondered why people are so keen in judging Martina in RG 1999? What do we know of the pressure she felt? She was 18…personally I have taken tons of bad decisions way after that age.
In a coverage from Swiss TV (she as much more popular abroad than in Switzerland) they portrayed her she said she did a mistake during that Final. Everyone was expecting her to win and she played incredible during the whole tournament, I just think we have no idea of what she might have felt.
I stll do.... haha so true, no need to be so harsh, she is human just like anyone and more than human in the sense we do not face such pressures day in day out!
Why not judge a professional tennis player who behaves like an idiot on the big stage?
We don't execute her, we don't jail her - we just call her a classless brat.
Hingis was one of the two most classless top players of the open era.
The more I learn about top tennis players, the more I realise how alike they are. Even the greatest champions can be quite arrogant, have had their meltdowns on court, breaking rackets, arguing with umpires and line judges, faking injuries and illness, taking unnecessary medical timeouts, long toilet breaks, retiring just a few points away from defeat, etc. If anyone thinks that there is a single top player that wouldn't use any advantage, fair or unfair, to either win or justify defeat - think again!
Well we are all the same human being after all you know? It's is normal for anyone of us to get emotional, no matter top tennis players or not.
@Max E Did you seriously just bring Putin into a discussion about tennis players? Okay I'll just let you be then...
Steffi has never broken a racquet in the 13 years that I watched her play, never argued with line judges and umpires save for asking and voicing her displeasure, never took gamesmanship toilet breaks and med timeouts, tank a match. So she’s not one of your normal type player/champion.
@Max E Hingis and SW seem to live in a parallel world to Steffi’s 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@markjames1127 Steffi Graf and Federer and Nadal on the good side, real ladies and gentlemen, Hingis, Serena and Djokovic, Zverev (Russian parents), Medvedev, Tsitispas, Kyrgios and many more on the other side.
We Germans love Graf, we despise Hingis, and we are not happy with Zverev!
Hingis was destroyed and traumatized that day..very sad
Not sad at all when a person brings that onto themselves. More like, hilariously ironic.
@@broncoguy4862French public are vulgar af. Why don’t they shut up. I remembered how they destroyed Coria just because they want the losing side to make a comeback.
Reminds me of Naomi Osaka after her '18 USO final against Serena.
Steffi saved tennis that day.
Was even better than Vinci saving tennis at the USO 2015.
Don't get what's the point with the footage so small. Bollocks.
Martina deserved this title...it is still heartbreaking to see her crying at the end of the match
I mean did she? She won the first set, was a break up to start the 2nd set and yet she was so dramatic over an out call at 0-0 into the 3rd game?? You're telling me simply for her being so dramatic here was enough to spiral her out of control and have Steffi win the 2nd and 3rd set?
Actually no, she did not deserve that. The one who win the last point deserves to win
I still get a lot of satisfaction from rewatching this match.
Rarely is evil behavior getting punished so quickly as it was here.
@@MalphasMikaelson Because she was right about the out call. It was incompetence and favouritism from the chair and the linesperson.
@@fartfacemuldoon5657 Tennis pros have had to deal with bad calls for decades. Ask McEnroe. Ask Serena. Hingis' behavior was outrageous, she's lucky she didn't get defaulted. And no, we don't know if she was right about the call or not, it wasn't clear. And stop with the weird conspiracy "everyone was against her"...that didn't happen until Hingis showed her bratty behavior.
So many negative comments about Hingis and her behavior. Yes terrible behavior. Of course. But no one knows what it was like to live her life. Tennis is a lonely sport. You travel all year with a few close friends or family if you’re lucky. She was 18. This is a lonely kid with no real friends. She didn’t go to prom. She didn’t go on dates. Didn’t live the carefree life of a teenager. She was destroying the best players in the world while you and I were begging to borrow our parents car. Can’t even imagine the pressure cooker she lived in day after day. It was bound to explode. Show some empathy.
0:45 Graf's reaction is hilarious.
Yes ,she knew the ball was in ..
Ese partido fue un abuso e injusto de la tribuna..porque en el tennis afecta directamente al jugador..porque eran miles de personas abucheando a una Jugadora de Tennis que estaba pasando por su mejor momento.
The editing of this video is terrible!
How so, think it was done well?!?!?
Yup. Technically, good editing, but lost the soul of the video.
She was so arrogant that she had a mental breakdown against steffi.
it wasn’t her fault
@@alazjaw.8968It was her and only her fault.
@@carrerau7138were you once in your life in a similar position and have you done better ? She was 18, none of us know what she felt
@@fabriceborioli4032 She was sh**ing her pants.
She knew what she had said about Steffi. And she knew what people would say if she were to lose this match.
And please don't insult me by indicating that I might have reacted in the same way as a 18-year-old.
I would not.
So you are psychiatrist? And have played tennis at a high level ? Both Graf and Hingis knew the ball was in .
Dios santo amaba con locura a natalie portman hingis pero aca se equivoco, sin codigos, el tenis es un deporte de CODIGOSSSS
Yes, hingis was. And some guy saying worst sportsmanship in earler response. , he should look at graf. She knew the ball was in ,,, hows that for bad sportsmanship.
I feel both sorry for her and a bit annoyed, she was just 18 for gods sake, we do not know how we would react.....
Don't insult other 18-year-olds.
The ball was in ..
And you that from what?
It genuinely bugs me how many of these videos don't acknowledge that Martina was right about the line call.
Clearly in. She should have just moved past that and continued dominating, but she was right.
It wasn't clearly in. If it was, the point would be hers. Regardless, her behavior following that call was outrageous, and started the meltdown that ultimately saw her fade from relevance. She would go on to lose in the first round of Wimbledon a month later and then lose the US Open final to Serena. She would not win another major.
@@broncoguy4862 it was clearly in.
If you suggest that you could “clearly“ see from that faraway perspective that this ball was in you are a liar.
Anyway, what has this to do with Hingis‘ terrible behavior? You think that was the first controversial call in the history of tennis?
Absolute rubbish. If it was "clearly in" then it would have been called as such.
@@broncoguy4862 No, the point would not have been Martina's.
It would have been a "let", meaning the point would have been repeated.