Chris Evert vs Barbara Romanò 1988 Roland Garros 2nd round Highlights
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@encinobalboa3 жыл бұрын
Chris is without question the greatest woman clay court player. Her dominance on clay compares favorably to Nadal.
@alexsdb97124 жыл бұрын
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.
@kendaves3841 Жыл бұрын
Henin quit too much, too often, for no reason, disrespected the sport.
@alexsdb9712 Жыл бұрын
@@kendaves3841 To be fair and aware, Henin wasn't the only one to retire from a match a number of times. It happens more frequently with the millenial generation of players on the tennis circuit. And about disrespect, my oh my there are more than a handful who outright truly disrespect the game and culture of it, and fans. But again, it's all about what Henin achieved, her abilities and style.
@damiencampbell83202 ай бұрын
I haven't heard of this lady Romano, but she is very good.
@gardenvarietypenis5 жыл бұрын
that Italian sure can slice, wow!
@pusakalyepusa76643 жыл бұрын
with pepperoni and cheese pleas
@lenwelch21955 жыл бұрын
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 ).
@lenwelch21955 жыл бұрын
Martin Pascoe explanations and a full disclosure of everts time on tour coming to n end .one would expect this at her age and station in her career.
@tomgraham60715 жыл бұрын
I would say it had more to do with the heel spur than anything else. Evert was brave and good at hiding the discomfort. I actually think she was playing arguably her career best tennis in 88, certainly no worse, but with Steffi around the standard had gone up. If she hadn't been injured at RG88, I think she'd have given Steffi a run for her money in the final. They never played on red clay after Berlin 85, and that was Evert's best surface.
@senorgato705 жыл бұрын
Len Welch definitely the effect of her foot. Later matches especially in 1989 Chris moved very well. Her match with Steffi in Boca in 89 was a good example
@lenwelch21955 жыл бұрын
senorgato70 at this stage Evert had good and bad days, she was able to recharge her batteries better than any othe4 payer but at this stage with the heel spur she had days when her body did not cooperate is all I am saying the heel spur, (I had one ) is something that can really affect you one day and. Not. So much on another day. Chris was great at playing within herself and not losing her patience when on days the shots. Werenothere,she played within the lines and she knew she could outlast this opponent.
@johnfogelgren31905 жыл бұрын
You can’t play with a foot bone spur or stress fracture.
@tomschmitz57455 жыл бұрын
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..
@tomschmitz57455 жыл бұрын
@@martinpascoe5904 MORE DEFLECTION....
@JSmith-zr2ve4 жыл бұрын
Martin Pascoe 🖕🏼
@showmebear4 жыл бұрын
That seems like an awful tough draw for Chris.....Sanchez-Vicario in the third round?! Wow.
@CJJAK373 жыл бұрын
@@showmebear arantxa was 16 and ranked 22 in the world back then . So unseeded .
@leolight53692 жыл бұрын
@@martinpascoe5904 You sound smart. Not.
@burninglightfire5 жыл бұрын
@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.
@christopherhammer44515 жыл бұрын
Evert Sukova Wimbledon please find and upload
@markthomas72255 жыл бұрын
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.
@senorgato705 жыл бұрын
Mark Adams Chrissy started her career serving with two balls. If she got the first serve in she tossed the second ball to the backcourt.
@kendaves3841 Жыл бұрын
@@senorgato70 I was going to say that! Yes, true. Evert had a very fine overhead. RARELY missed.
@leonardofibonacci86654 ай бұрын
4:01 Romano is throwing her second ball away in the middle of a ralley. Wouldn't that be hindrance today?
@jonathankieranwriter3 жыл бұрын
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.
@leonardofibonacci86653 жыл бұрын
Jonathan, I agree with your comment about Chris' love-turned-hate relationship with clay. However, the Olympic tournament in Seoul 1988 was not played on clay but on hardcourt, where Chris lost to Raffaella Reggi.
@tobiasisback4605Ай бұрын
Evert was like a machine on clay!
@drlee24 жыл бұрын
From a distance, I'd swear this is Gabriela Sabbatini, but only from a distance! lol
@Glennn74 жыл бұрын
That was the first thing that came to my mind as well. Barbara Romanò appears to have been heavily influenced by the graceful Gabriela's game. Lovely to watch.
@johnfogelgren31905 жыл бұрын
Did Chris only come on court with like 3 rackets??
@HunterBidenCocaineBag4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Not a full tennis bag *and* an over-the-shoulder bag *and* a purse. No going to the ball kids for a towel after every point. No screaming. Just elegant tennis!
@kendaves3841 Жыл бұрын
@@HunterBidenCocaineBag ALSO, she hit very flat with little margin for error, and look how accurate over the years. Quite something. Hitting flat does not wear out the strings the same as spin.
@gardenvarietypenis5 жыл бұрын
...and dropshot.
@robbieknovak94323 жыл бұрын
What is up with that match point? Damn, give up much?
@lancemartin33513 жыл бұрын
She double-faulted. That’s why she put forth no effort on the last shot.
@pedropelaez2 жыл бұрын
Romano looks a bit like Sabatini from behind.
@robmagu65 Жыл бұрын
Sabatini is much better from behind :)
@AK-fe4sq4 жыл бұрын
Barbara Who? LMAO.
@JD-jc8gpАй бұрын
I love Barb's game. She's good.
@johndelaney18183 жыл бұрын
Evert's strokes lack sting here, her game was clearly in decline
@leolight53692 жыл бұрын
Not it's the heel spur
@johndelaney18182 жыл бұрын
@@leolight5369 Her game wasn't in decline by 1988? If she wasn't fit to play she wouldn't have stepped on court. Most players deal with some type of ailment but to use it as an excuse is something only a fanboi would employ.
@robmagu65 Жыл бұрын
She never was really known for her power. It is her consistency & mental game that won her many of her matches.