Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova - 1978 Wimbledon Final
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They dressed side by side. They waited together, sometimes ate together and entered the arena together. Then they would play a match that seemed like a personal cross-examination, running each other headlong into emotional confessions, concessions. And afterward they would return to that small room of two, where they showered and changed, observing with sidelong glances the other’s triumphalism or tears, states beyond mere bare skin. No one else could possibly understand it.
Except for the other.
“She knew me better than I knew me,” Navratilova says.
They have known each other for 50 years now, outlasting most marriages. Aside from blood kin, Navratilova points out, “I’ve known Chris longer than anybody else in my life, and so it is for her.” Lately, they have never been closer — a fact they refuse to cheapen with sentimentality. “It’s been up and down, the friendship,” Evert says. At the ages of 68 and 66, respectively, Evert and Navratilova have found themselves more intertwined than ever, by an unwelcome factor. You want to meet an opponent who draws you nearer in mutual understanding? Try having cancer at the same time.
“It was like, are you kidding me?” Evert says.
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Burt Reynolds and Chris Evert, 1977.
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Without any question the most detail/ analysis based review that I will ever do. That said as a tennis fan who has been following this project from announcement two the first batch of episodes dropping the final product is equally as interesting for what
This review may or may not be more technically orientated than the audience for this writer’s work is used to. That said its fandom for tennis as a sport will very much colour his opinion on the splashy Netflix flies-on-the-wall offering loosely following several desperate stories from across the 2022 season. So let’s discuss.
When the ATP, WTA and grand slams announced at the start of 2022 they…
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Jewelry designer Monica Rich Kosann loves a good story. Take, for instance, the tale of tennis great Chris Evert, who in 1978 halted play at the U.S. Open to find her diamond bracelet, which had broken off from her wrist and was strewn about the court. The story made the rounds, and as such, the jewelry style was instantly dubbed a “tennis bracelet.” With Evert’s misfortune, a new trend — and eventual mainstay — of the jewelry industry was launched.
(via For Monica Rich Kosann, Jewelry Is All About the Story)
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Chris Evert practicing with her sister Jeanne Evert, 1972. Photographed by Tony Triolo.
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Chris Evert with her family in their Fort Lauderdale home in 1972 (Chrissy, Drew, Clare, John, Colette, Jeanne, Jimmy)
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The French by William Klein
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Match Point Served : Minute Fiction
The Minute Fiction is a series of small immersive fiction stories created to give readers a quick daily mental break. How many minutes are in a year? Borrow one for yourself and have an adventure.
The moment when match point is served.
Cradled in the firm grip of a world-class tennis player, you feel the palpable tension that fills the air. The weight of their fingers against your felt surface…
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