Martina Navrátilová v. Chris Evert | 1985 Roland Garros Final | Old School Match | 

I truly miss this match-up. The best rivalry in sports history. They remain great friends . Pure class❤

Textbook tennis played to perfection: style, grace, elegance and such contrasting styles. No tantrums, no grunting either.

The most exciting women's match I ever had the pleasure to witness. Pure drama from beginning to end, in a match which ebbed and flowed, til Chrissie emerged - finally - a deserved winner! Great quality upload too. 👌 👍 😎

For me, not “one of the best’ but THE best women’s match of all time 🤩 Chris had lost 15 of their last 16 matches, including 13 in a row at one point - also including the previous year’s FO final when she got well and truly shellacked. This match and the following year’s contest, capped the greatest rivalry in all sports, not just tennis. Thank you for posting!

Best final ever🤩

I was so happy for Chris. She came so close at USO84 finals. The losing streak had truly been broken! She looked so lean and fit here. She earned this win.

Wow, I fully recall watching this match in San Francisco, where I lived at the time. Because of the time difference, my cable channel aired this match hours after the match had been completed. I (at the time) fully felt that Chris could break the strangle-hold that Martina held over her for their last many matches. I very purposely ignored any news broadcasts of the outcome. I wanted to watch this match without knowing the final score. It was very exciting to say the least. Cheers to two wonderful champions!

These two always had so much respect and admiration for each other. That's why it turned into such the best rivalry ever in sports.

Great Champions to see how marbles they play with Respect of each other!! You don’t see that in our timeline!!! Thanks!!❤🙃

Pure classic, remember watching this game as a child. Two great champions. Love how every time Martina makes an emphatic winner Chrissie acknowledges it with a "yeah". Such respect and admiration between the two of them, one of the greatest sporting rivalries ever. When you watch this, look at the talent, the pure class, and then think of Steffie aswell, sorry - nobody is ever going to convince me that Serena is the GOAT. There is more to it than just counting grand slams.

I miss these two. They were awesome!

15 min 20 seconds. Amazing ... I love Chris.

This match really marking the end of the super, hyper dominant streak that Martina had had. It was the first time she's lost in two consecutive grand slams since the Australian Open of 82 and French Open of 83 (The Australian Open then played in December). She lost the world #1 ranking to Chris for a period, and then also lost the 1985 US Open final to Hana Mandlikova. She had an excellent year in 1986 but said years later that with hindsight, she was burnt out from Tennis from the end of 1986 until mid 1989. 1987 was an odd year for her - not winning a single tournament until Wimbledon in July and losing the #1 ranking permanently, to Graf.

i just love watching chris evert play.

Bravo Upload.. Talk About Classic.. Timeless - Tennis..

Best visibility of the play, a match I missed for work and because at the time it was almost a given that Navratilova would win. And she nearly did. A coworker took an extra long lunch, and when he got back to the site said he had just seen the best tennis match he'd ever seen. I asked who won, and will never forget the thrill of knowing and seeing that final point. The only negative is it is not included somehow, in this otherwise comprehensive and excellent coverage. The next year, I refused to not watch the match and that same coworker was forced to cover the shift while I sat in a small trailer on the property, watching closely ona very small tv as Evert won her 18th grand slam. This baseliner, as they liked to call her, won the match very largely because of her excellent net play, and let it be remembered, she won her last grand slam title with a winning forehand drop volley, a shot she mastered in that 1986 repeat win. The greatest winning percentage in tennis. And she did not shy away from competition.

What a match that was. One of the best matches ever in tennis history, and certainly the most amazing GS final between both ! The level of play was so high, with some outstanding rallies, and many twists throughout the match. First, u thought Chris would have won easily, and then she lost the second set u don't know how. Great and heartbreaking suspense in the third set, with Chris eventually winning by the slightest margin. I remember well that backand passing shot down the line which gives her the match. And I love how they congratulate each other after handshake. The GOAT match ? Not far in any case...

This was a dramatic match! I was in high school when this all went down. I was so happy for Chris! Great quality video. All other videos, of this particular match, are so grainy and fuzzy that you can't see the ball. Nice job.

Love This Match 😊

Evert's backhand was devastating throughout this match. I am surprised that Martina did not make more of an effort to play the forehand more .

Martina ,I admire you and you are humble

If even one of these ladies was not around the other would have one 36 grand slams. They are the two best of all time.

Chris said some years later that she had worked out a plan with her coach and her husband for this match. They'd looked closely at Martina's game and realised that Martina's forehand was in many ways her weaker shot. Whereas Chris would have hit almost totally to Martina's backhand, she worked with her then husband (John Lloyd) to add some topspin to her shots and to hit higher to Martina's forehand to keep her back.

Finally, good quality of this classic match...best on internet by far! Thank you so much for uploading this classic! Do you also have the 1986 final?

The most beautiful positive rivalry in womens' tennis history.

Fabulous Ladies

Very well played Chris...:)......that scintillating double fisted backhand she possessed......and that final backhand down the line shot! ...which was not showed!!!!!......

Chris Evert (Lloyd)....the best counterpuncher, in the history of tennis....male or female. To this day, I still play a baseline-brand of tennis. And when I first started playing as a little guy of 10 yrs old, Id watch her matches, religiously...her and Borg, were my instructors, and they never knew it. But the reason put her on top of the better MALE baseliners/counterpunchers, starts with the simplicity of her grips. Very simple Eastern grip on the forehand...very convenient, traditional Continental grip on the two hander. Eventually, as often happens from one generation to the next, your grip may be the thing that slow you down or puts you out of business...simply because near the end of her run, racquets changed by leaps and bounds..in a HUGE way. And the topspin that the newer generation of girls were throwing at Chris, made it THAT MUCH more difficult to stick it out longer. Her demise didnt happen because she was out of shape or angry or even overmatched, really. It happened, simply because she refused to make drastic grip changes on swings that won her grand slams, left and right, for MANY, MANY YEARS...I couldn't see the great Evert, learning a full Western grip, just to stick around for a few more yrs, in other words.

Powder puff v dike what an intriguing match. Ce magnifique.

Very attractive match

Chris Evert 🥰👏👍

J avais 20 ans lors de ce match, en Allemagne. Je m'en souviens comme si c était hier. Quelle pression j avais moi le big fan de Chrissie.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Really enjoy hearing Navratilova as a commentator-never realized how much she complained on the court.

Chrissie willed herself to win at French both in 85 and 86!!! SO GLAD she did. As much as I respect Martina she made a big mistake in this final by rallying with the master of groundstrokes. If she would have been more aggresive and at the net more often the resullt might have favored her

Para mí,,,,,quizás el mejor partido de todos los tiempos...conjugados,dos estilos opuestos ,tácticas distintas...gran mentalidad de ambas.....

How did you manage to get the video in such high quality ? It's amazing ! No offense but it's not Evert's last epic win against Navi. She won a few more epic matches after this one, including the 1986 RG final.

Funny how as the serve and volleyer, it’s Navratilova hitting heavy topspin;)

I was surprised at how short Martina was hitting many of her groundstrokes in this match. Chrissie exploited all of Martina's weaknesses, yet was not yet 100% sure of herself against her great rival, which actually created the drama, length, and back and forth of the match. I actually think that the championship match the next year, won by Chrissie 2/6,6/3,6/3, was of better quality, but definitely not as suspenseful.

@23:28 Phillipe Chartrier clapping hard for Navratilova. He kept Evert from a possible 3 more French titles by banning her from the French when she dominated the sport. She warmly thanked him for being such a great tournament director when she could have been quite bitter.

after all that and you DON'T show the match point?!?

Where are the 2 last points ?

Americans never got to see the whole match! It was chopped up and edited to fit a time slot! We missed the most of the first set and the entire 2nd set! Thanks for nothing, NBC!

Chris speech was so humble saying Martina was best in the world, that this match didn’t change that even though it did by end of th🎉e year maertina was number one. But that wasn’t th🎉e lounr T Chris wanted to prove😂 that on any given day she could win against her especially on clay . From 85 on Chris won 3 mtches on hardcourt and 4 on clay . Martina won 110f 19 matches I clay 4 grass court rest hardcourt and carpet. Chris said it best . On Martina’s best day Martina’s best was better than h🎉er best.

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Chrisie played powder puff tennis 🎾 but was so consistent and accurate that she still won big.😢😂

The line judge at 28:51 looks a bit like Steffi’s mother, Heidi Graf.

Great match, but how in the hell do you omit match point? Couldn't even tell who won until she held the trophy up.

What happened to match point?

when ladies tennis was still exiting to watch. I remember this match. wonderful. I can't even remember the names of the female tennis players today. What the hell do I care who wins? It 's sad.

Evert vs SabAtini 1985??????

Chris’s legs s eemed exhausted serving at 5-5 a sens e of inevitability,Ty settled in w here Chris wnould lose to Martina down serving love 40 . Then amartina error then a evert backhand ripper bas though she did not care where it landed mad that she found herself down after snuck a lead . Then the shot of the match at 30-40. An exchange at the net Martina usually won e merit won . She turned around on her heel with that neck Lea ding up to the. Sky” I have a chance” with Martina serving at 5-6 Chris finally lebarned Not to play it safe. She had to hit 5 winners to win

Imagine if Martina had the swinging volley shot near no man's land in her arsenal.

Martina so sporting when she must’ve been a bit gutted.

12:22 a “come on” from Chrissy? :)

Are you serious? Show the match highlights and leave out match point? WTH?

Lotta pushin an pokin

What!? No match point!

il n'y a même pas la balle de match!!! serieux??

You are missing match point.

Until Steffi rocked the court 😂

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It was the power of Christopher that was too much for Martina in the end.

Chris evert was born at the good moment. Steffi graff destroyed her