My favorite interviewer is Costas

well said. of the two interviews, i enjoyed and learnt much more from Chris' interview.

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.❤️❤️😎😎!!!

is it all the marriages and divorces?

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.

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.

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Absolutely

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.

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.

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.

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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7uJnsqSuN6aYKs.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrd7Zcdiucq4qp8.html

It took Jennifer a decade to get to number one

Could be...I would too

another example of bob's intellect being perhaps the greatest since galileo's.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Joel What’s more sad is someone who has to point out something so irrelevant.

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.

Omg Martina didn't hate Chris because for those reasons! Braindead comment