chrisevertdotnet I was taught the same basics like 25 years ago. Nostalgic.

chrisevertdotnet if you have these fundamentals then you can tweak your game to the style of today because these fundamentals give you feel for the ball, once you have that you can improve from there,

can you explain what fundamentals you got right here and which may be missing?

Exactly! Great video.

@@lenwelch2195 no.it is very difficult to change the game.it costs me like 10 years

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Djokovic's BH is aesthetically pleasing imo. It's not that different from Evert's : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ms-RbN190uCyk6s.html

I completely agree. Nobody a complete player as Chris. And Martina about at the same level. They are the greatest of all times.

Amadeo Juachon The difference is that if you can do what Chris is showing, you'll have no trouble transitioning quickly to the open-stance forehand. The reverse, not so much. I am a big fan of timeless fundamentals--no matter the sport.

Kevin Nguyen she definitely would have been more competitive against Martina in that long win string by Martina. Chis was 1 or 2 years late in making the switch

John Iii in defense of Chris, Wilson was her sponsor and they were last in making graphite prototypes . As early as end of 82 they were sending Chris graphite rackets to try. As you can see from this video her whole game was based on good footwork to get behind the ball as soon as possible to have as many options to where she wanted to hit the ball and whether to hit it flat , topspin or slice. If you get there late the only option is to return the ball straight up the court and often short . Martina did this in 83 and knew where Chris was going to return the ball as Chris didn’t take chances hitting shots out of position. A graphite racket would’ve allowed her a lighter racket to compensate but the rackets Wilson was sending her gave her more power but no control. In summer of 83 Wilson sent her a updated model and she used it in exhibition and lost to Shriver just before los Angelo’s tourney ( the tourney before the open ). This did not give her confidence as she never lost a tournament matchto Shriver and wouldn’t until 87 when she was 17-0 . So Chris stuck to her wood for 83 open. At open she played a great match against mandlikova in QF . Hana couldn’t rush Chris so she had time with her wood to hit any shot. In Sf she played an inspired Durie who rushed her , won 4 and 4 but was up 5-2 in both sets. Chris won because Durie banged her volleys in to bottom of net when score was close. Against Martina , she couldn’t put pace on her shots with wood and Martina rushed her and could only send the ball back in direction off Martina’s shots if she was lucky to get her racket on the ball. If she played only Martina with graphite model she couldn’t have done any worse but the model gave her much less control. Finally by beginning of 84 Wilson found a better pro type of graphite Chris was happier with and still lost to marina but score was closer 6-2, 7-6. Chris started to play one set close with Martina. The. Wood racket was heavy and Chris if she got to the ball could hit for placements . Switching to graphite she had to learn to let the racket do the work instead of big wind up and big follow through. Not until W did Chris have better feel for graphite but still struggled with return of serve with Martina powerful serve . Even at the Open Chris at critical times went back to her wood wind up follow through form required by wood racket which resulted in returning Martina’s powerful serve Long. Countless points were lost in just this way. 5 days after this final Chris beat Martina in an exhibition 6-3, 7-6. She was pissed about losing the open and played freely , going for balls and letting the graphite do more of the work. She practiced hard to developed more feel with graphite oct - Jan and in Jan finnaly broke the 13 match losing streak by winning 6-2, 6-4. The biggest difference ? Chris learned to have a more open stance on return of serve and let the graphite do the work in returning the ball . On top of that Chris’s movement improved. Lifted weights for upper body strength and stronger legs plus wil son tweaked the graphite to give her more power on out of position balls . Chris had to adjust her strokes with graphite and all of 84 was spent getting used the newer graphite. Chris was raised by her dad not to make mistakes and jimmy could no longer be her only coach because he didn’t understand the graphite as well as the wood, Chris got Dennis ralston and hitting partner jay delewey to hit that ball hard in practice and in drills to increase her speed on practice court. Mary Carillo has said Chris rarely hit the ball as hard in matches as she did in practice partly bec ause Chris used pace of the men ti return hard. By French Open 85&86 Chris no longer played Martina with self doubt as much. In 85 French she won the first set easily as she should have done in 84W but didn’t, by 84 Open she won the first set. Chris had chances to break Martina at 3-3 but didn’t due to la k of confidence and at 5-4 Martina serving. At 15-40 Chris had two chances to break to 5-5 . On first break point Chris got tentative on a second serve and tried to make up for that by hitting a topspin forehand she hit inches long. On second break point Martina served a first serve jammer in to her body and Chris resorted to her wood racket and returned the serve hitting the ball on tape of the net on her side of the court to make it duece . On set point for Martina Chris was pissed and let the graphite return a backhand down the line for one of the best winners Chris ever hit. The next two points Martina volleyed two very deep looking balls , the first was closer in looking than the one she hit she hit on set point. Chris practically didnt play it thinking it was long and basically that was the match. Chris played one weak service game in beginning of the third suffering a let down instead of possibly playing a second set tie break in the second to win the match. Chris quickly got back on track and held her serve rest of the match but played a choker game with Martina serving at 5-4 holding for 6-4 victory. Chris lost this match , Martina wasn’t 100 percent and Chris knew it. At French 85 she exercised her demons , she won the first set, served for it at 5-3 and 6-5 but played it safe and lost in tie break ( it seemed like 84 open all over again. Up 3-1 , then 5-3 then 5-5 0-40 Chris serving it looked once again Chris was capitulating to Martina’s cocky personality. Chris realized she was handing it over and got pissed Chris ripped a short return with no care where the ball landed for a winner.then Martina hit a framer error inches wide on her backhand then came shot of the match- a reflexed volley winner and Chris whipped around with her chin in the air and took this as a sign that the match was hers if she stayed aggressive. Martina serving at 5-6 chris went for broke and hit the backhand of all her yesterday’s up the line to win the match, to put to bed her intimidation by Martina. All her hard work but mostly by believing in herself from here till their last match in 88 Chicago Chris won when she played her best and Martina won when Martina played her best. 7 wins for Chris and 11 for Martina. In slam events Chris won 3 x and Martina won 5 . I don’t think if Chris had grahite racket in 81 or 82 she would’ve won against Martina more because the models they were giving her to try did not have the right combo of power and control Chris required. Even when they got it right in 84 it took Chris a year to get used to it with her improving foot work and tweaks in her strokes and a more open stance.

@@lenwelch2195 A true "Evert historian". Excelent information. Just one small detail. I think that Crissie "exorcised" her demons. To "exercise" them would have only made them stronger. Excelent commentary nevertheless.

@@lenwelch2195 My gawd how do you know all this?

modern technigue is more easier

She walked away from him. From his autobiography, one can gather he gave his wife a nightmare-gambling and sex addiction. Loved to watch Connors play and was really disappointed to hear about his personal struggles-lost his tennis fortune and had to start over.

The continental grip is what you would use to hammer a nail straight down. It's slightly more on top of the grip than the shake hands grip. The shake hands grip the palm is exactly the same as the face of the racket. You wouldn't hammer a nail with a shake hands grip. The continental is used for serve, volleys, and underspin forehand and slice backhand. In the video her "eastern backhand" grip, yes, is a bit conversative, so it does look more like a continental.

this is old technigue for wooden rackets.dont look at it.

Tips for the amateur...you must be going pro, dude.

Tony07UK I was thinking of older club players. The juniors at my club all have the modern strokes. Evert here doesn't even loop the take-back haha.

Dumb right wing comment. Players can be what they want to be. Any where. Any time.

Extreme Western forehand does not work well for amateurs on hard courts. Pros make the odd adjustment for low balls. Most amateur players should stay away from it.

John Olenczak have to have the basics first then build to modern game. F you only have modern game on a offday there iOS no way to right yourself to feel the ball that’s why so many women pros make so many mistakes. On an on day they can beat any one. On an off day they can lose to any one.

Well, most of today's pros on tour and even recreational players are hiding behind all that overdone racquet technology. A lot of the job is being done by the equipment. So you cannot say it isn't the modern forehand, but instead it is a fundamental forehand. If the equipment today (since late 90s) weren't crazily overdone, then players would definitely be "forced" to hit like this or naturally hit like this because they wouldn't be able to hide behind excess racquet technology.

ROFLMAO

Ricc Lee comparing apples to oranges

Even though it's hard to compare the times. I disagree.. I think she was that good. She would get overpowered by many players but could be competitive with others, including Wozniacki. That could be a pretty good match

Completely different times and approach to what they needed to do on the court. It's actually the other way around: many of today's so-called pros would struggle anytime before the 90s or 80s because of the more minimal equipment and purer game. No altering surfaces too. They would be exposed for what they really are and their true level of talent will show. But again, different times and different approach.

Evert, in her era, was among the best in the world, period. Comparing players of different eras is like asking which fighter plane was better, a P51 Mustang in 1944, or an F22 Raptor in 2021. Different eras, not comparable.

yeah, if only she used your forehand instead...

Evert had three forehands, and her topspin forehand she used to defeat Navratilova is a great one to copy. Also, her flat forehand in matches is a bit different from what I see here.

Her serve may not be the most powerful, but her technique is nevertheless perfect Everyone can learn from it And i want to had that you can't be in the top 4 for almost 20 years with a bad serve, so... 😉

@@thierry-yonathanmeyer5976 Her game was amazing, as was Tracy Austin and the two of them had two f the weakest serves in women's' tennis even in that era. The reason they did so well was their excellent forehands and backhands and the fact the equipment was not good enough to take advantage of poor serves but seriously, you think their powder puff serves were good ? They were awful and her serving technique (roll the ball in slowly) was non existent. She said so herself so there is no point arguing.

@@dmbunny8000 I don't care about Tracy, we were talking about Chris lol I'm sticking to my opinion that her technique is perfect and that her serve was underrated Have a nice day 🙂

Looks pretty textbook here.