Yes, the speech by Graf was a graceful one. She did also say in the press conference afterwards that Hingis needed to learn to respect her opponents and not make derogatory comments about other players. I can’t remember her exact words, but this was definitely the gist - and was perfectly true!

Yes and missing the crucial turning point which was *5-4 15-15 second set Hingis serving for the match with that epic rally and the lesser seen topspin backhand winner from Graf

habs auch live gesehen.Hingis war einfach viel zu arrogant und dachte sie kann die Rentner-Graf einfach so weghauen und sorgte damit für den schönsten Sieg von Graf 🙂

Von heute aus gesehen tut mir Hingis schon ein bisschen leid, weil man mit 18 Jahren natürlich auch mal Fehler macht. Vielleicht hätte sie die Mutter bzw. Trainerin oder ein sonstiger Berater in Sachen Verhalten gegenüber dem Publikum und Aussagen über Mitspielerinnen besser beraten sollen. Bei Roger Federer haben die meisten auch hier in Deutschland auch dann zu ihm gehalten, wenn er gegen Deutsche gespielt hat (Zverev z.B.), nur Tommy Haas war auch sehr beliebt. Insgesamt muss es aber eine hervorragende Nachwuchsarbeit in der Schweiz geben, wenn man die Einwohnerzahl auf der einen Seite und die Erfolge auf der anderen Seite sieht. Viele Grüße in die Schweiz!

Moins arrogante ? Pour avoir voulu vérifier une marque que les arbitres ne retrouvaient pas ? Vous vous rendez compte que tous ces sportifs de haut niveau sont pour la grande majorité des monstres d'arrogance. Graf était elle-même considérée comme très arrogante sur le circuit. Je sais de quoi je parle, je vis en Allemagne, elle est loin d'avoir une belle image ici. Le comportement du public a juste été lamentable. Une bande de beaufs (style football) qui prend sans raison fait et cause pour l'un(e) ou l'autre. Comme en Coupe Davis. Des gens qui n'y connaissent rien et qui viennent pour l'événement. C'est lourd et anti-sportif. Ca ne colle pas du tout avec l'esprit du tennis. Moi, ca m'a fait honte de voir un tel comportement du public. Je vous invite à regarder le tournoi de Rome qui se déroule en ce moment. Regardez les matchs avec un joueur italien. Pathétique. Les mecs hurlent quand l'adversaire rate une première balle de service.

Thank you I didnt know that

Karma👏👏👏. Love Steffi as a player And a person. The other : yuk

what is excluded in this video is the lengthy toilet break hingis took at the beginning of the third set

Didn't she say that when she was 15 during the US Open?

@@beavertown2006 No, she said that during Roland Garros 1999, Dalida is correct.

Spoilt kid

@Illya Kuryakin a slightly fitter Seles would have also meant trouble for Hingis in 1997. I often wonder what she, Steffi, could have achieved at the US Open in 1999. I mean... she should have reached the QF at the 1999 USO at the very least. Had Graf made it to the final of the USO that year, chances were high to regain the #1 position. That would have been a kii. I think Steffi should have played the 1999 season to its end. But the way she ended her career was perfect too... That summer of 1999 is something I will never forget.

@Illya Kuryakin Steffi Graf wouldn't have won as much as she did post May 1993 hadn't a crazy fan of hers stabbed Seles at her prime. It's has become a running theme with her.

@@sportstravel4129 Problably true. But it is not Graf' s fault/responsability, crazy people exist ...

And if I had had the combined talent of Graf, Navratilova and Serena Williams...I would have been so awesome..Seles would have been forgotten by really everybody unlike now by everybody except some avid fans...but that's life eh🙄@@sportstravel4129

Untrue. She came back and had ample chances (and missed those). It was maybe a turning point, but not the only one. In the end, it is the usual mixture in these kind of games: one player is loosing confidence and power step by step and at the same degree the other is gaining strength. And in the end it is a fully deserved win. It is called sports.

Do we still have genders? That’s cool 😎

"Still have genders"..why, we have more than ever! I hear the latest count is 8,045,311,447! @@wewanttruth8392

Doesn't excuse the French crowd. Their behaviour were on par.

Doesn't excuse the French crowd. Their behaviour were on par.

@@sportstravel4129 It was well deserved on Hingis` part

@@MrStumacher No,it wasn't deserved

The US Open crowd is always pretty poor. I've never seen a crowd worse than the US Open final this year with the booing of Medvedev when he tried to serve it out. Luckily he was winning by so much the crowd didn't cost him

Yes, without Monica Seles, with Evert and Navratilova at end career... The luckiest player for sure, the best I don't believe..

HLVS Till the end for sure she was the best of all time. Just beating all those players including Sabatini. Sanchez Vicario, won Golden Slam in 1988, longest weeks as number one in the world. All reasons for calling her the greatest of all times. Whom would you call that?

@@leofederer don't be ridiculous

@@leofederer to claim luck on behalf of such a player (with all the crises she went through herself) is just pure ignorance. Go back to your fanatic world view but spare others with your 'thoughts'.

@@HaleG9 You can tell "fanatic" to your mother, not to me. I haven't offended anyone. It was only an opinion. Who are you for givining those kind of conclusions?

@Illya Kuryakin no mark. In. At least, empire should have made point played again. Instead of that, Hingis got penalty point and crowd against her.... Not cool.

@Illya Kuryakin it was not as easy as the score says. And the question here was : ball in. You said false. I say in. The empire said in a recent itw the ball was probably in. But tennis rule say you don't replay the point if the empire don't find the mark. Bad tennis rule in my point of view. And certainly Hingis too 😉

it doesn't matter. martina behaved badly

@@thomasraftom5941 Ridiculous. The ball was given out. There is no proof that it was not. So the decision stands. Read the rules if you have no clue.

Given the perspective of the camera noone knows (you included). And if you do not know things better and think you have been treated wrongly, you have to accept and move on. If you cannot learn this lesson here and in life, you end up like Hingis - lost.

You say Hingis is ‘THE best women’s player of all time’. How do you qualify that statement? Certainly her results don’t support this at all! Just curious as to how you come to this conclusion.

@@scswp6945 Agreed- not in stats, as no woman can come close to the power and dominance of Serena Williams. My opinion is that Hingis had the best all round play, and for such a tiny frame she played her shots extremely well. For me she is simply the best to watch, and the most naturally talented. Who is your best woman player?

@@charlesdehavilland2437 I absolutely agree with you that Hingis was good to watch and did have a solid all-round game. I often watch highlights of her old matches. Unfortunately, the onslaught of power tennis changed the women’s game (not for the better necessarily) and left Hingis struggling. I was a fan of Steffi Graf back in the nineties. I liked the way she moved and played. I think her style of play was somewhat unique and it was successful because of her movement. Today, I watch little women’s tennis, as I feel most of the players are ‘clones’ who all play in a similar way. Women’s tennis of the nineties (with its wider range of styles) was far more interesting to me. Hingis was an important part of that period.

@@scswp6945totally agree, Steffi had great determination, and had a great personality that came across in her post match TV interviews. She and Boris ruled the courts for a while. My favourite Tennis moment; Goran Ivanisevic Wimbledon win 2001, and then saw his home welcoming in Croatia.

Oh, yeah - Higgins against Kraf, Sonchaz-Varico, Sales, Caprioli and Novritaliva!!!

Before she came back out, she slapped an official. A very bad loser.

It was not her end, Injuries stopped her great career but nonetheless she won 25 GS Titles alltogether in Singles/Doubles/Mixed

She had a glorious career, and she also matured into a great ambassador for the sport. People give her a bad rap for her behaviour during this match, but she was just 18!! Give her break. How many immature things have we done at that age? She is a legend in her very own right, and she made 2 very successful comebacks. Her calendar year Grand Slam in 1998 will not be forgotten.

@@fundhund62 How much single grand slam has she won after this match?

@@alhioscha8765 Stop artificially splitting tennis into different disciplines. She won thirteen Grand Slam titles after this match, which is a pretty amazing achievement. The last one came more than 20 years after her first one! Talk about longevity!

@@fundhund62 It's o.k. No one else she won...

Never saw a player who deserved more to lose a slam final. Maybe Serena against Osaka.

Somehow that was seen as unsportsmanlike by the audience (and TV commentators)

Das kann man so nicht vergleichen: Martina Hingis hat ihre Karriere verletzungsbedingt schon mit 22 Jahren erstmals beenden müssen ...... wäre Sie fit geblieben hätte Sie bestimmt noch zahlreiche Titel mehr errungen

@@derhinko2359 Steffi hat die Weltrangliste viel länger angeführt und fertig 👍🍀👍

@@derhinko2359 Das braucht man auch nicht vergleichen, weil die Hingis dazu überhaupt nicht einlädt (und das lag ganz sicher nicht nur an ihren Verletzungen - sonst hätte sie wohl kaum noch so lange Doppel gespielt). Aber die Bilanz von Graf ist selbst ziemlich klar besser als die von Serena, was die Wins angeht. Für mich ist Graf die Größte des Sports gewesen. Hingis hatte ich bis heute eigentlich vergessen. Wenn mir jemand leid tut, dann ist es Monica Seles.

Sans doute.

@Illya Kuryakin have you seen Mauresmo? Calling her half a man is a compliment.

@Illya Kuryakin says something about your sexuality

She was a 5 time grand slam champion. and she behaved badly in that final. The crowd is too harsh but she and her team are definitely to be blamed as well.

@Illya Kuryakin she is objectively not attractive, the fact that you consider her attractive means you're probably gay or bi

@Ilya Kuryakin agree with u there

Also, you need to pick your fights. Hingis was very much in charge of the match and there was no reason for her to make such a fuss about that relatively unimportant point. She completely lost her momentum because of it. Heinz Gunthardt, Steffi's coach, said that at the time he realised that what Hingis was doing was simply going to anger Steffi and make her play better, which is exactly what happened. The players with truly great mental strength, like Chris Evert, Monica Seles and Steffi herself, would have made it known that they disagreed with the call but then got it out of their minds and focussed on the next point.

Boy they were checking the mark 1 meter away from the actual one like ''wtf there's no mark''?

Yeah, that really was the first controversial call in tennis history….. 😂

Yeah, that’s why Steffi won 107 points and Hingis 93, you clown.

There were too many marks obviously to determine the correct one. These things happen in Tennis. If you cannot deal with it, you are no champion. it is as easy as that.

Illya Kuryakin More ugly one

piano forte rofl... as if Hingis is a beauty queen 😂😂😂

@@greyworm1791 They were both gorgeous and you are both idiots and definitely not the ones to judge the worth of either woman

John Mitchelson Yes, you’re right - it has evolved. Unfortunately, I don’t believe it has evolved in a positive way. The players, now assisted by massive advances in racquet technology, all play the same way. That is to say, there are masses of players all of whom stand at the baseline pelting forehands and double-handed backhands. There is far less variety and, in my opinion, watching one match is very like watching another...or another. Everything seems ‘cloned’ and this has done a major disservice to women’s tennis. In the 80s and 90s (and earlier), there seemed far more variety and players did strategise and adapt their game for different opponents. The evolution of women’s tennis has taken it into a very unfavourable direction and I believe this is proven by reduced attendances and television audiences in recent years. This match is one from a golden era of women’s tennis. Nowadays, it’s almost a case of ‘you’ve seen one match, you’ve seen them all.’ I, for one, feel sad for the sport and I no longer take an interest in the women’s side. I don’t really see what the WTA can do about the current situation of the game either.

@@scampsweep absolutely agree

@@scampsweep thats the same in mens tennis majority are baseline bashers who finish points at the net with a floater

Tennis on the whole has made a huge step backwards over the last 30 years. People today don´t have remotely the skills or tactical understanding that their predecessors had. Federer is the one-eyed man in the land of the blind (that´s how you win 20+ major titles), but the rest is hardly watchable.

@@fundhund62 lol

No it's just passionate.

A crowd is not here to punish, it is not a tribunal ... Punish is not a word from sport

@@sebseb8047 But acting self-righteous, arrogant and unsportive are words you are familiar with in sports, right? Hingis can only blame herself.

Hingis was arrogant. She did sabotage her match (and sadly her career - though I would never have believed after this match she would never get another GS title in single) alone. Few things : like mentioned in other commentaries she was rude towards Graf in interviews. You also need to remember her words about Mauresmo back at the AO 1999 before the final. French people did not forget that. Hingis got support during all her run in RG 1999, even in 2nd Round vs Mauresmo... However if you add this : arrogance in final, unsportswomanship, disrespect towards a tennis legend during a final... yeah at the end of the day you have the crowd against you. HOPEFULLY. Crowd does not have to suffer an arrogant and insulting little girl as a winner, however talented she might be.

The excuses Graf haters have never stop - and I‘m loving their impotence!

@@carrerau7138 what's funnier is you having made a career out of making the same excuses against Serena. The only notable difference between us is that your statements are pure bias and mine actually hold ground

They gave a lesson to a brat.

Als Deutscher hab ich mich zwar damals für Graf gefreut aber Martina wurde beschissen von der miesen Schiedsrichterin und das asoziale Publikum hat sie psychisch verstört , Martina war bildhübsch damals

@@WONGLER Ähm, nö.

terrible, ugly win for Graf when Hingis played such beautiful tennis. horrible crowd on Martina’s back, too. absolutely shameful!

@@adamlarsson3828 The intelligence beat the stupidity.

@@WONGLER Alter, was bist Du denn für ein Psycho? ERSCHRECKEND!

Right. And u do believe in aliens, too - Lololol 😂🤣🤣🤣😂

Yeah, that‘s why Steffi won 6 FOs and Hingis zero, you clown.

We'll never know, sadly. But it's far from certain what Monica's future would have been. Firstly, she wasn't particularly robust physically. In 1993 alone, she'd had to take several months off due to illness. Hamburg was her first tournament back. She'd also had to skip the likes of Wimbledon in 1991 due to injury. given that injury forced her out of the game in the end, it's very possible that injury would have been a factor in her career if she hasn't been stabbed. Secondly, Monica had had a great few years. Every player who has that kind of success then goes through a slump. It happened to Roger Federer, Djokovic, Borg, McEnroe, Wilander, Navratilova and Graf herself. It's simply not possible to keep on dominating like that - the physical and mental strain is massive. As early as 1991, Monica started talking about problems she was having with food. Playing at the very highest level like that leaves players with a kind of post traumatic stress disorder. Roger Federer apparently used to wake up in the middle of the night in a state of panic. Steffi talked about how she was so mentally exhausted after completing the grand slam that she couldn't leave her hotel room. Chris Evert once had to ask Mary Carillo for help after a match because she was so tense that she couldn't let go of her racquet. That's the kind of stress Monica was dealing with. There was no possible way she'd be able to keep the form of 1991 and 1992 going for many more years without getting absolutely mentally and physically exhausted.

I have not forgotten about that. And it is a shame it happened, true. I still claim that Steffi is the best of all times. Seles would have been a long standing competitor, sure. The rest is speculation and that she was 'far better' is undenyably false.

What happened to MS doesn’t take anything away from Steffi’s hard work & talent. She was a master of this sport

Monica who...? 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣

Seles ended her career in 2003.

Just shut up and be honest to yourself that those achievements are outstanding. She had nothing to do with the attack at Seles. This was complete maniac who did this all by his own.

@@DL-my7bi Now why would I shut up? Freedom of speech, you know. Seems to be a thing with Graf fandom - insulting anybody who doesn't praise her. While Graf didn't attack Seles, it's just a fact that she would have far less GS, titles & weeks at number one without the stabbing.

@@sportstravel4129 "freedom of speech", pf, calm down, nobody's coming to arrest you. They are *free* to tell you to shut up when you talk complete nonsense like that.

Martina isn’t the only player to have a decision go against her. It happens in every sport. You move on and get your head back in the game. Steffi was one of the finest players tennis has ever seen.

@@msmilano7091 Sure, but more than 20 years later this Martina Hingis was a "spoiled brat” & Steffi Graf was “ classy” (she was never Miss Congeniality & made some unpleasant remarks too) narrative that is still being pushed is as disingenuous as ever and doesn’t tell the whole story. Imagine, being a 17-18 years old girl playing for a GS title with all the (media) pressure and scrutiny that comes with it. As a singles player you are pretty much alone on the court. Couple that with the judgey & hypocritical French crowd booing you from start to finish, your opponent enabling the booing & knowing your ball was in. The umpire falling to keep the crowd under control, etc... Professional athletes are humans too & everybody has a breaking point. Yeah, crossing over the net was wrong and she was penalized and fined for it. I remember Navratilova doing the same but she never got the same hate for it. As for the underarm serve, it’s a legit shot. Michael Chang did it a couple years before her and the same Parisian crowd cheered him on. Nowadays, it’s considered a genius move and pretty much everybody is doing it.