Chris is without question the greatest woman clay court player. Her dominance on clay compares favorably to Nadal.

I love watching these matches more than anything today. I love to watch matches, from any round, during the golden era or peak of modern tennis, which is 1970s to 1996. Some as well, from the later 90s up to the mid-2000s, but with the players continuing on from the 90s of course. The only ones from the latest period that are watchable and interesting and are like 90s quality era players are Federer, Henin, Clijsters. True tennis with its form, tactic, power (yes, but natural and not all about power), tricks and content, style, court awareness and of course, tennis conduct. These ones and the golden era players are the ones who could play in any era, with any era racquets.

I haven't heard of this lady Romano, but she is very good.

that Italian sure can slice, wow!

The main difference in this match in Chris than let’s say 1985 is that Chris is half a step slow in reacting to the ball , setting up as she hits the ball rather than in 85 where she is already there set to hit the ball . Her contact point ( where her racket meets the ball is no longer always out in front of her , here there are times wen she makes contact parallel and sometimes actually behind her on a deep ball where she has to improvise the length of her follow through to keep the ball in . At 34 she is not reacting to her opponents shot as early as before and her left foot heel spur I’m sure hindered her movement . , often late off the mark which limits her shot selection .Still her shot selection is keen from experience . She just made sure not to make as many errors ripping the ball from a poor position , hitting the ball well within the lines . I believe the last great match where all of her yesterdays came to the present was the dismantling of Seles in her last winning match of her career (89 Open ) many of her closest friends and family wanted her loss to Graf at W in SF to be her last but she knew she had one more vintage Evert in her . Beating Seles in the way that she did was worth entering the 89 Open although flat and losing to Zina in next round . We all got to witness Everts greatness one last time . From beating Court in 1970 7-6,7-6 just after court had won the Open completing. Her grand Slam to Monica Seles who would win the Open just two years later in 1991 Chris played and fought every foe . She was no fluke with the highest match winning percentage of any player -90 percent ( 89.97 percent ).

last time evert would play the french and last match she would ever win at the french, as she loses in the next round to sanchez-vicario and dealing with a painful left foot heel spur, in hindsight probably should have never entered the french that year..

@JOTennisVid Thank you so much for all your great work!! I cherish those Highlight Videos, which are perfectly timed and edited, so much. I just wanna make a wish. Please stay with Evert a little longer. She had incredible matches throughout her career and her mid to late eighties stuff woulf fit nto your channel pretty well.

Two things in this match, One, Chris whiffed an over head that didn't seem to be hard (maybe the sun) another was at 4:02 Romano threw the extra ball to the ball kid in the middle of a point.

4:01 Romano is throwing her second ball away in the middle of a ralley. Wouldn't that be hindrance today?

Ironic that the slow surface which helped build Evert’s relentless strategic precision in childhood and which bolstered her dominance of the sport as a young woman would become a total thorn in her side at the very end of her career. Her game (aggressive, probing, laser-precise, killer instinct-driven “baselinery”) did not really change all that much over her entire career, but her strategy did shift toward the very end. With added power and acclimation to her graphite stick, she preferred shorter points and swifter opportunities to open-up the court for put-away winners and even crisp volleys at net. Her penetrating game had always translated well to every surface, but the patience required to play cat-and-mouse with opponents specifically on clay diminished as age and other life-concerns weighed upon her in the final two-and-a-half years of her career. Perhaps the most telling indications of this irony were her decision to not even play the French Open in 1989 and her failure to win a medal at the 1988 Summer Olympic tennis event, which was played on clay. That had to be a particularly galling disappointment for a champ of Evert’s prestige and ray-zoo-may. Even so, she went out with a flair and class that won’t ever be equaled, and, though few mention it or seem to remember it, she also left the game on a winning note, *not* on the Zina Garrison US Open loss: late in 1989 she played one or two Fed Cup matches and defeated Conchita Martinez in the last *official* pro match of her storied career. Gotta respect the Ice Maiden.

Evert was like a machine on clay!

From a distance, I'd swear this is Gabriela Sabbatini, but only from a distance! lol

Did Chris only come on court with like 3 rackets??

...and dropshot.

What is up with that match point? Damn, give up much?

Romano looks a bit like Sabatini from behind.

Barbara Who? LMAO.

Evert's strokes lack sting here, her game was clearly in decline