Two great champions who don't need to scream on each point and had one-handed backhand, love them both.

Its certainly a lost art in todays modern womens game ; even many in doubles competition s dont volley thst well or much at all at times

You mean the boring years of tennis !?

@@azenith9589 boring years of tennis is from 2013 till end of this sport in this universe or till the end of this universe ( only cowards' game play from 2013- base line games, standing so much back like a coward, not attacking and aggresively coming to the net , not showing varieties at all- nowadays everything is slow moving, no varieties at all, dull movement , no quickness/alertness at all

@@mahalakshmid8613 you must be from the ancient century artifacts ., wondering your still alive 😅😂

if you think that today players do not have touch you are just an incompetent

Graff was the and sti.l the best

Yep, the quality of this video is insanely good. And it makes you realize/appreciate how good both of them were.

Me too... i felt this excitement , someone so so brilliant..

Same here!

Was thinking exactly the same. What an amazing thing to have surfaced.

if you see 1991 US open semifinal, you see navratiova playing a diffent game. here she plays like against evert, a few years before .most of all attaching slow to have time to get to the net. anchient style. then she tried to attack sharp and be quicker to get to the net. i really find it interesting that navratilova played slighly a different game in 20 years, but still different from what was going on. evert, graf, seles. the game had changed many times. very interesting. she always played peculiar.

Yes, the two best ever.

Golden Slam still any players not achieved except Steffi

@@arunaaruna7941 Both Serena and Djokovic were positioned to win all 4 Majors in the same year, and neither could get over the finish line...shows how difficult that feat is to achieve since it's been over 30 years since Graf pulled it off, adding Olympic Gold in 1988 to boot.

I don‘t know where you live but here in Europe still gets a lot of credit for that Golden Slam. It is the main reason for being called the GOAT.

Steffi way better. And didn't cheat

@@63002 You are hereby crowned the King of Absurdity. Steffi was mesmerizing but saying she was “way better” than Martina is just kind of dopey.

Violent, love it

no kidding, I never realized Martina's serve had such crazy action on it.

@@StewNWT its a brilliant match... what standard!... womens tennis has gone to the dogs...

@@StewNWT wicked slice serves!

Stefi’s brutal forehand

Hah I was ten years old to, Martina looked soo intimidating to me I thought she was cool like a Tennis Darth Vader.

Exactly. And seeing it in this quality, you realize that they would probably dominate the current WTA tour with easy. None of the WTA players can do half of these things.

@@robertorolfo I always wonder. On the one hand current players have no clue how to deal with S&V and will probably struggle with the slice (Iga did against Barty! Well I guess everyone did since she was no. 1 for a while) but on the other hand current players hit the ball really hard and have strong backhands so coming in won’t be that easy. We are currently seeing what happens to a player like Cressy on the ATP side although, of course, he’s not as good as these two ladies.

100%. Now the women all look like they are on steroids and just sit on the baseline and pound the ball back and forth. No variety at all. Graf or Navratilova would dismantle today’s players.

So true. Take any modern WTA player (including Serena), and they only make 20% of the volleys that Martina makes here.

Add to that their great 1989 finals - Wimbledon, USO and YEC.

I thought the same. Never seen a tennis player holding the second ball in the hand during the game.

Navratilova 32, Steffi 19, it could explain.

Graf ate her alive. I saw this. It was like watching my aunt die.

@@raygordonteacheschess5501 lol!!!! Or grandma! I love the 1999 French open final, Graf vs Hingis! So good! That's like watching a spoiled brat get their ass spanked!

“One of the better matches of the late 80s“? Are you for real, dude?

@@raygordonteacheschess5501the German daughter of Nazis

Martina war die größte, dabei bleibt es, ihre Stärke war ihr Charakter.

Well, yeah, both players here can make a strong claim to be the best of all time

way more varieties for sure. and remember back then the racket technology was not as good as it is today!

It’s probably just you 😉

It's not just you at all. I've already made this comment 5 times, but both Steffi and Martina, using their 1988 racquets from this video, would EASILY win Wimbledon 2023. None of the current WTA players have anywhere near these skills. They would walk through the field with the type of play we see in the video. Serena wouldn't have been as easy to beat, but they both would have dominated her as well.

@@robertorolfo I just watched again to "pinch" myself. They are *definitely* head-and-shoulders better than today's WTA. No question. The shot variance, net play, slices, everything is better, other than power. Put a modern racquet in their hand, and that difference likely disappears too. Maybe they'd see some trouble from the eastern bloc ladies that are 6' 2'' and perhaps doping, but even then, I think Martina and Steffi win.

Watching Steffi here I was thinking of Roger, they both had the ability to hit sharp angled forehands with tons of pace.

Also a fun aspect of this match, to your point, is that you watch Steffi figure out how to beat Martina, you SEE her learning, adapting her strategy.

@@hd-xc2lz Yes, something you almost NEVER see in the current WTA. None of them think or adapt.

Stefanie, please.

It's about tenis, calm down.

I also thinking much better players

May be old racket not allowed to power shot

Amazing legs. These days, only Giorgi comes close (but not as tall). Must say that Rebecca Peterson has pretty nice legs as well, though.

First off, she was a class act. Second, just look at how well she is hitting in this high quality video. This 1988 Graf, with her 1988 racquet, would easily win Wimbledon 2023.

Madness !!!

Honestly, it is amazing to see. I can't believe more people aren't commenting on this. You would never see that these days.